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steepholm ([personal profile] steepholm) wrote2013-02-04 10:39 am
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Dick the Not-So-Dusty

Richard the Third - "beyond reasonable doubt".

Yay for science!
wolfinthewood: Wolf's head in relief from romanesque tympanum at Kilpeck, Herefordshire (Default)

[personal profile] wolfinthewood 2013-02-04 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
My partner used to park her car in Greyfriars car park.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2013-02-04 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent news. We love our Richard in the Midlands.

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2013-02-04 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
That Warwickshire lad had a few nasty things to say about him! :)

As a former resident of York I'd like to see his body repatriated, but it does look as if Leicester has it sewn up, legally.

sovay: (I Claudius)

[personal profile] sovay 2013-02-04 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
As a former resident of York I'd like to see his body repatriated, but it does look as if Leicester has it sewn up, legally.

Ah. I was hoping for York also. What's the argument against?

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2013-02-04 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
As far as I can gather, permission for exhumation (or maybe just excavation) was given on condition that any remains be reburied in Leicester Cathedral.

I will still wouldn't rule out some Raids from the North, though! Richard may be the new Stone of Scone.
gillo: (Richard III portrait)

[personal profile] gillo 2013-02-04 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Midnight grave-robbing. Yorkshire lads might be up for't.

I gather it is a standard requirement that exhumed bodies be reburied in the nearest consecrated ground. The car park was deconsecrated at the Dissolution, so doesn't count.
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[personal profile] sovay 2013-02-04 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay for science!

I just saw! Indeed.

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2013-02-04 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes: wonderful teamwork.

[identity profile] karinmollberg.livejournal.com 2013-02-04 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Utterly fascinating!

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2013-02-04 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Very exciting, for Ricardians and anyone else with the slightest human curiosity about the past.
gillo: (Richard III portrait)

[personal profile] gillo 2013-02-04 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't suppose Leicester Archaeology department will suffer in the REF from this!

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2013-02-04 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed not - this is public engagement with a vengeance!

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2013-02-04 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Fabulous work!

Nine

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2013-02-04 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Wonderful, isn't it?