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Author Pitts, Michael W., author.

Title Digging for Richard III : the search for the lost king / Mike Pitts.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2014.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  942.04 PITTS    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  942.046 PITTS    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  942.046 PITTS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  942.04 P68    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  942.046 PITTS    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  942.046 PITTS    Check Shelf
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Description 207 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-203) and index.
Contents Act I: England, 1452-85 -- Act II: Looking for Richard III -- Scene 1. Leicester. A bridge -- Scene 2. The same. A friary -- Scene 3. The same. A university -- Act III: Excavation in 2012 -- Scene 1. Greyfriars. A car park -- Scene 2. The same. A grave -- Act IV: An autopsy -- Act V: An inquest -- Epilogue: A battlefield, and a burial.
Summary "The events of Richard III's reign and his death in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth are known worldwide through Shakespeare's most performed, filmed and translated history play. Digging for Richard III is the page-turning story of how his grave was found, the people behind the discovery and what it tells us. It is the first complete narrative of a project that blended passion, science, luck and detection. Told by a noted archaeologist with access to all the parties involved, it follows the quest from an idea born in an Edinburgh bookshop to the day, fourteen years later, when two archaeologists carefully raised the bones from a car park in Leicester, and the scientific studies that resulted."--Book jacket.
Describes the quest to locate and excavate the grave of Richard III, from the first idea to search for his burial site to the day fourteen years later when a skeleton found beneath a parking lot was identified through scientific analysis.
Subject Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485 -- Death and burial.
Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485 -- Tomb.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Leicester -- Case studies.
Forensic archaeology -- England -- Leicester.
Added Title Digging for Richard the Third
ISBN 9780500252000
0500252009
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