Have they found Richard III? Archaeologists searching for 'tyrant king' under Leicester car park find skeleton with a curved spine and metal ARROW in its back

Teeth and femur from the skeleton, which was buried without a coffin, set to undergo DNA testing at an undisclosed laboratory
Barbed iron arrowhead was found between vertebrae of the skeleton’s upper back
Also has spinal abnormalities and an individual form of spinal curvature, consistent with accounts of Richard III

By Tamara Cohen

PUBLISHED: 05:59 EST, 12 September 2012 | UPDATED: 19:22 EST, 12 September 2012

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Searching for a medieval king who had been lost for 527 years always looked like a long shot.

In a discovery worthy of a Hollywood film, however, archaeologists yesterday announced they had unearthed what appear to be the remains of Richard III.

Using historic maps, they traced a friary where he was rumoured to have been buried after being killed in battle – underneath a social services department car park in Leicester.

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The spot (circled in red) where archaeologists believe they may have found the remains of King Richard III. The remains were found under a council car park of New St in the centre of Leicester.

The spot (circled in red) where archaeologists believe they may have found the remains of King Richard III. The remains were found under a council car park of New St in the centre of Leicester.

And after only three weeks of digging, to their astonishment they found the skeleton of an adult male who was well-built and clearly of noble descent.

His injuries – a metal arrowhead embedded in his back, and a severe blow to the head – are consistent with the king's death at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

Even more persuasive is the fact that the man has a severely curved spine; Richard was famously nicknamed Crookback.

The revelation that the skeleton, exhumed on September 4, had severe scoliosis provoked a gasp at the packed press conference in Leicester's Tudor-era Guildhall building yesterday.

He was not a hunchback, the archaeologists said, but his right shoulder was higher than his left – consistent with accounts of Richard's appearance.

As any scholar of Shakespeare will know, the king was famously ridiculed as a hunchback in the Bard's play, described as 'rudely stamp'd, deformed, unfinish'd'.

Read more:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2202036/Richard-III-remains-Leicester-car-park-believe-archaeologists.html#ixzz274Zh0EF4

I wonder who the last leader or king of a country that died leading an actual battle? now, the coward leaders hide in a basement when the battle comes to them... how sad...

yea.

Did they find the horse?

i think it ran away...

"Now is the hour of our discontent made glorious summer, by this son of York..."

so they finally found Ritchie!
Dry-gulched it seems!