X Marks The Spot... The Search For Richard III

The search for the mortal remains of Richard III, England’s last Plantagenet king, made history and captured headlines across the world. Richard Buckley is co-director of the University of Leicester’s Archaeological Services and was project manager for the Greyfriars Project. He will talk about the discovery of Greyfriars in the context of medieval Leicester, explaining why the archaeologists chose to dig where they did and giving detail about the excavations.