Richard III: How to find a Lost King
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Exhumation of the Bones of a Friar
Archaeologists thought they had found the bones of a friar in trench one. They were going to exhume it, but Simon Farnaby was coming along for television documentary and needed something to film. So they decided to exhum these remains while he was there so he would have something interesting to talk about. And that's when the discovery was made. It started on the 4th of September but it went into the 5th of September before the full exhumation could be done. But because I was the client of the dig, I instructed exhumation of those bones because I thought I want to know who they are. We uncovered him on the5th of September.
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