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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Susan Clark

Extraordinary discoveries made by ordinary people - from Hermes head to baby mammoth

Rarely has history been brought more dramatically to life than by the discovery of centuries-old bones under a car park.

Six months later experts confirmed the bent skeleton, which bore 10 wounds, was Richard III, killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, aged 32.

His naked corpse had been slung over a horse, taken to nearby Leicester and buried without ceremony.

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