Ten years ago, in early September 2012, a team of archaeologists and researchers unearthed the 527-year-old remains of Richard III in the lost site of the former Greyfriars church, beneath the staff car park of Leicester city council social services.
Before the results of mitochondrial DNA analysis of a descendant of Anne of York, Richard III’s sister, confirmed that the remains belonged to the fallen king, it was the osteology work of Dr Jo Appleby that led to a probable identification. She determined that the skeleton in the car park belonged to a man between the ages of 30 and 34, whose spine had a pronounced curvature, and whose head showed signs of two lethal injuries consistent with battle trauma.
