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Hello, Richard.
I have to say, this makes me extremely happy.
(Further details from the University of Leicester here.)
I have to say, this makes me extremely happy.
(Further details from the University of Leicester here.)
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(Richard!)
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I really hoped last September it would turn out to be him, but I didn't want it to be one of those far-fetched claims; there are enough conspiracy theories in the world. Modern archaeology is not my field and the site admits there's some weirdness with the radiocarbon, but it looks otherwise very solid and therefore I am glad. And yes. Everybody involved should be extremely happy!
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I think the DNA analysis bits are just showing off for the press. How many killed-in-battle men with scoliosis buried in a friary of that general vintage can there be?
(Of course, this could just be me being bitter about ULeic's ability to fund the DNA analysis etc.)
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Nine
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Points to science.
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Welcome! I check the Guardian most mornings and there it was.
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On an unrelated note, hopefully this will also be true...
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Oh? Speak to me of DNA grumbling. See above to
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I hope it holds up as well, although the non-DNA parts of it sound solid to me, at least to the degree I can judge them without having seen an actual site report, etc. Doesn't seem likely there'd be that many high status men with severe scoliosis, killed in battle and buried hastily and ignominously but inside a church and in about the right locality in that period.
I do wish the Guardian reporter hadn't described a halberd as "razor sharp," which always gets to me because you don't put a razor edge on something that you're going to be chopping through bone with, and probably a goodly number of bones if you're to live through the day, bashing armour with, etc. It's not that it's not sharp, which is the other error in historical arms writing that always gets on my nerves, it's just that it's sharpened more like a felling axe than a chef's knife... But that's me being a geek again.
The sword injury at the time of death is interesting. Suggests he must have lost his helm in the fight, because you can't cut through a helm with a sword. I'd like to read something detailed enough to explain why they're thinking of that as a perimortem battlefield injury rather than another postmortem mutilation.
If Richard visits you and him asking a poem of you, I hope he'll be polite about it.
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I'm assuming there will be papers. Then I'll just have to hope I can get access to them.
If Richard visits you and him asking a poem of you, I hope he'll be polite about it.
Thank you. I tend to think of
Aye. And there's the rub. Well, with luck we'll both get to see them, one way or another, at least some of them.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
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I would love to see what happens if anyone does a facial reconstruction. (My aunt is a forensic artist; I'd ask her what she thought.)
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I am a big fan of Time Team, who would probably love to get their mitts on this sort of thing, but as someone said upstream in the comments, this really is the find of a lifetime.
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Agreed.
(Has it been a bad week, or is Richard III just that cool?)
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So, a bit of both, really. I'll be glad when the weekend is here.
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Our weekend appears to have arrived early with a forecast of late glaciation. I got up early to call realtors, none of whom were in their offices. The governor of Massachusetts has issued a strongly worded request that no one be out on the streets after noon and it just started snowing. I am going back to bed.
*hugs*
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