Richard III: How to find a Lost King
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Search for Richard the Great
When Richard was killed in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth, he was buried in this small, priory church in Leicester called the Greyfriars. About 50 or so years after that, after the dissolution of the monasteries, his grave became lost and it was said that his remains had been thrown into the nearby river saw. But then something quite remarkable happened. There was a dig in 2007 and this was one of the big moments for me. Because the dig took place right next door to the bank and it was a commercial dig. They were going to build some flats or something but they found no trace of the Church. So that then logic and reason determined that the
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