King Richard III

King Richard III wedged in tiny grave

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:30:58 GMT

Source: www.dailyexpress.co.uk --- Friday, May 24, 2013
King Richard III was buried with little ceremony in a hastily-dug grave, researchers have revealed. ...

Did King Richard III get a quick burial?

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:18:19 GMT

Source: thestar.blogs.com --- Friday, May 24, 2013
The remains of England's King Richard III, which were missing for 500 years. (AP Photo/University of Leicester) Medieval chroniclers wrote that King Richard III had been buried "without any pompe or solemne funeral." Now, archaeologists say that's true. The University of Leicester team that co-discovered the 15th century British monarch's skeleton last September --- and confirmed this February that the remains were in fact Richard III -- have announced new details about the burial . The grave was too short for the body, the archeologists say, and was dug in an "untidy lozenge" shape. That's inconsistent with other burials of the era in the same town, which were neatly dug with square sides and are of proper length for the bodies they contain. Furthermore, there is no evidence of a coffin or shroud, and the King's head was propped against one side of the grave, suggesting the gravediggers didn't try to lay the body out properly after it was lowered into the ground. "This may show that the gravediggers were in a hurry to put the body in the ground – or had little respect for the deceased," the University announced in a press release. King Richard III died in battle in 1485 and was buried at what was then Grey Friars church -- now a parking lot. When archeologists began to dig beneath the lot in August 2012, they found bones of a man who seemed to have fatal battle wounds and a curved spine -- King Richard III was described as h ...

King Richard III Buried in Hasty Grave

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:15:00 GMT

Source: news.discovery.com --- Friday, May 24, 2013
Legendary royal's resting place was dug poorly and quickly, in contrast with other neat and tidy graves nearby. ...

King Richard III’s body was crammed into too-small grave, say dig team

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:52:54 GMT

Source: www.thetimes.co.uk --- Friday, May 24, 2013
The world had already been told that burial of the remains of King Richard III was understated: in the side... ...

King Richard III found in 'untidy lozenge-shaped grave'

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:37:37 GMT

Source: www.sciencedaily.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
A new article on the archaeology of the Search for Richard III reveals for the first time specific details of the grave dug for King Richard III and discovered under a car park in Leicester. ...

Battle-Bruised King Richard III Buried in Hasty Grave

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:03:32 GMT

Source: www.livescience.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
King Richard III was buried without pomp in a sloppy grave. ...

Battle-bruised King Richard III hastily buried

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:03:22 GMT

Source: science.nbcnews.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
University of Leicester The remains of King Richard III showed a curved spine and signs of battle trauma. He apparently was hastily buried -- the grave was irregularly shaped, with sloping sides, and too small for the 5-foot-8-inch skeleton. That may have been because he had already spent days dead in the summer heat. . By Stephanie Pappas LiveScience The body of King Richard III was buried in great haste, a new study finds — perhaps because the medieval monarch's corpse had been out for three days in the summer sun. The new research is the first academic paper published on the discovery of Richard III , which was publicly announced in February 2013. A team of archaeologists from the University of Leicester found the body beneath a parking lot in Leicester that was once the site of a medieval church. The full study will be available online on Friday evening. The archaeological analysis contains details only alluded to in the initial announcement of the findings. In particular, the archaeologists found that Richard III's grave was dug poorly and probably hastily, a sharp contrast to the neat rectangular graves otherwise found in the church where the King was laid to rest. [ Gallery: The Discovery of Richard III ] Richard III's journey to Leicester Richard III ruled England from 1483 to 1485, when he was killed during the Battle of Bosworth Field, the definitive fight in the War of the Roses. University of Leicester The skull of th ...

New Study Finds That King Richard III Was Buried in a Hurry

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:01:32 GMT

Source: blogs.smithsonianmag.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
New archaeological analysis shows that King Richard’s remains were buried in an awkward position, leaning against the wall of a grave that wasn’t dug large enough. Image via University of Leicester Last September, a team of archaeologists in the UK made a remarkable find: under a city council parking lot in Leicester, they found the remains of King Richard III . The King ruled England for just two years (from 1483 until 1485) before his violent war-time death. In February, after comparing DNA taken from the skeleton to surviving descendants of the King and testing its age, the group officially confirmed the identity of the body. Since then, forensic analysis indicated that the King was killed by traumatic sword blows to the head —perhaps with enough force to drive his crown into his skull. Now, the first academic paper to be published on the discovery provides more unnerving details on the circumstances of Richard III’s death. In a study to be published tomorrow in the journal Antiquity , the University of Leicester team writes that the King’s body looks like it was buried in a hurry, crammed into a hastily-prepared grave that was too small for him. Further, he was left in a strange, slightly folded position, perhaps even with its hands tied together. Instead of a carefully-dug grave with straight walls, as was customary during the era, Richard III’s has sloping walls, with a larger size at the surface than at the bottom, as the ...

More on the Burial of King Richard III

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:07:38 GMT

Source: www.archaeology.org --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
LEICESTER, ENGLAND—Researchers from the University of Leicester have revealed in the journal Antiquity that the remains of King Richard III had been buried in an untidy grave, “without any pomp or solemn funeral,” as the medieval historian Polydore Vergil had written. There were no signs of a coffin or a shroud, and the lozenge-shaped grave was too short for his body, which had been placed on one side of the hole. Additional evidence suggests that the defeated King’s hands may have been tied. Other medieval graves in the town had been carefully dug to the correct length and with vertical sides. ...

Reconstructed King Richard III to go on display

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:48:55 GMT

Source: www.newsletter.co.uk --- Friday, May 17, 2013
A facial reconstruction of King Richard III is going on display in Leicester’s Guildhall on the first stop of a nationwide tour. ...

King Richard III facial model goes on display in Leicester

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:49:21 GMT

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- Friday, May 17, 2013
Reconstruction based on skull of the King exhumed from under a car park will then go on a nationwide tour A facial reconstruction of King Richard III is going on display in Leicester's Guildhall, on the first stop of a nationwide tour. The model was commissioned by the Richard III Society and made by Professor Caroline Wilkinson and the forensic art team at the University of Dundee after archaeologists discovered the body of King Richard III under a car park in February. It was made using a 3D printing technique called stereolithography, and details such as the style and colour of his hair were taken from near-contemporary portraits. Archeologists plan to exhume a 600-year-old lead-lined stone coffin found nearby. University of Leicester Archaeological Services has applied to the Ministry of Justice for an exhumation licence and to Leicester city council to extend their dig to discover more about the Church of the Grey Friars, where King Richard III was buried. In February, teams revealed that remains found under the city car park were "beyond reasonable doubt" those of the last Plantagenet King. Archaeologists want to examine the second discovery found near the site and said the stone coffin might contain the remains of a medieval knight, Sir William Moton. He is believed to have been buried at Grey Friars Church in 1362, more than a century before Richard III. Richard III Monarchy Archaeology guardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News ...

Head of King Richard III to tour England

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:39:55 GMT

Source: www.thetimes.co.uk --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
A facial reconstruction of King Richard III is set to go on display in Leicester’s Guildhall on the first stop of... ...

King Richard III archaeological unit makes new discovery under a car park in Leicester

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:43:39 GMT

Source: www.24dash.com --- Friday, May 03, 2013
Archaeologists find 13 burials They discover personal items like hairpins and belt buckles A ring is found bearing a possible early Christian symbol People with different beliefs were buried alongside each other The University of Leicester archaeological unit that discovered King Richard III has spearheaded another dig and discovered a 1,700-old- Roman cemetery – under another car park in Leicester. The latest dig follows the historic discovery of King Richard III by colleagues from the sam... ...

King Richard III's teeth and jaw reveal monarch's anxious life and violent death

Wed, 01 May 2013 20:00:19 GMT

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk --- Wednesday, May 01, 2013
The violent death suffered by King Richard III at the battle of Bosworth has been revealed in new detail by analysis of his skull and jaw found under a car park in Leicester. ...

King Richard III archaeology team bids to extend search at historic search site

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:47:12 GMT

Source: www.24dash.com --- Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Archaeologists who discovered King Richard III under a car park now plan to exhume a second discovery found nearby- a 600-year-old lead lined stone coffin. University of Leicester Archaeological Services has applied to the Ministry of Justice for an exhumation licence and to Leicester City Council to extend their dig to discover more about the Church of the Grey Friars where King Richard III was buried Lead archaeologist Richard Buckley, of the University of Leicester, said the stone coffin potential... ...