Richard III - The King under the Car Park
The story of the search for England's last Plantagenet king

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Mathew Morris and Richard Buckley

University of Leicester School of Archaeology and Ancient History (2013)

9780957479227

64 pages

Against all odds, a team of University of Leicester archaeologists discovered human remains buried beneath a Leicester car park. Following exhaustive scientific research, the University was able to announce that beyond reasonable doubt, these were those of Richard III who had been buried in the church of the Greyfriars in 1485 after his death at the Battle of Bosworth. Read this fascinating account of the discovery by the team which carried out the work.