Full storyArchaeologists are set to lift the lid on a stone coffin discovered at the site of the English friary where Richard III's remains were found.
Excavators suspect the tomb billed as the only intact stone coffin found in Leicester may contain the skeleton of a medieval knight or one of the high-status friars thought to have been buried at the church.
Richard III, the last king of the House of York, ruled England from 1483 to 1485, when was killed in battle during the War of Roses, an English civil war. He received a hasty burial at the Grey Friars monastery in Leicester as his defeater, Henry Tudor, ascended to the throne. Grey Friars was destroyed in the 16th century during the Protestant Reformation, and its ruins became somewhat lost to history.
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Stone Coffin to Be Opened at Richard III Site
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Stone Coffin to Be Opened at Richard III Site
Interesting, but why open it? I dunno, I guess I can see digging i the ground and going opps I found a body, but to crack open a casket just rubs me the wrong way.
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And the stone coffin contains....another coffin, made of lead.
http://news.yahoo.com/medieval-coffin-k ... 25581.html
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