A strange coffin within a coffin has been excavated from the very same site that yielded the remains of King Richard III some months ago. At the site, a large stone coffin was found. Once workers on site managed to get the lid off of the stone coffin, they found a separate lead coffin inside the first. Currently, archaeologists don’t know who is inside the coffin, but they do suspect the body inside belongs to someone who was important to the community in the 13th or 14th Century.
Almost a year ago, archaeologists were digging underneath the remains of Grey Friars church in Leicester when they found a skeleton thought to be the body of King Richard III, who died in the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. Richard III was the last English King to die in battle and his history is a storied one, as a King who famously imprisoned two young princes in a tower, reportedly murdering them in order to claim the throne. The body was buried in a casket, and was later confirmed to be none other than the burial place of the late king.
The church had been torn down hundreds of years ago, and in recent years, a parking structure had been erected in the area where the church used to be. Using map analyzing techniques and radar, archaeologists determined the best point that they could to start digging up some history, eventually running into tile and other remnants of a building from years past. A DNA swab from a distant relative of King Richard III was used to identify the skeletal remains, although a scoliosis deformity also helped people to verify that the remains belonged to the famous leader.
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