Dem Bones

digging
up the past
dem bones

I'm a couple of days off the pace of this news story, but I remembered today that there is a statue of Richard III (and indeed of most English regents) on Bradford Town Hall, so I thought an image of that would commemorate the discovery of his bones.

Much ado about an old king perhaps, but fascinating how this branch of science works. Colleagues in the Biological Anthropology Research Centre at the University in Bradford hosted the Leicester researchers behind the discovery a few weeks ago, when they came up to compare the suspected Richard II to skeletal remains from a contemporaneous battle from the Wars of the Roses.

Dem dry bones.

The statue in context, high on the Town Hall. Not much sign of either a withered arm or a twisted spine in this representation.