Saturday, March 16, 2013

Blog #13


Medieval Knight Found Under Parking Lot In Scotland; Mysterious Remains Thrill Archeologists
THE HUFFINGTON POST
by: Meredith Bennett- Smith
Archaeologists found a unknown body of a nobleman or a knight under a Scottish parking lot earlier this week. This body was well preserved and is able to be tested for DNA tests. It is explained how close it is buried to a church, and the closer the body is buried to the church or monastery, the more significant the individual is. There was also a sandstone slab found near it and they are both believed to date back to the thirteenth century, from Blackfriars Monastery. "The knight would have been buried in the graveyard associated with the monastery meaning he had money or was important in the society of time," Murray told HuffPost. After a DNA analysis, scientists say that the body found belonged to King Richard the third.

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