The successful search for the long-lost remains of Richard III - TopicsExpress



          

The successful search for the long-lost remains of Richard III seems to have inspired the hunt for other missing English monarchs as well. This story from the BBC News web page for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight of August 5th describes an application to the Diocese of Winchester by that city’s Hyde900 community project, to submit remains found in an unmarked grave in St. Bartholomew’s Church in Winchester to scientific analysis, in order to determine whether they are those of King Alfred the Great, the first “King of the Anglo-Saxons”, who died in his capital there in 899. This version included the most detail about Alfred and the proposed study, and I’m glad to report that the application was immediately accepted: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-23529567
Posted on: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 04:13:51 +0000

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