Richard III's grave

[scrabulista]

‘I had goosebumps!’ – the finder of Richard III’s remains in a car park is celebrated in a Steve Coogan film

As the astonishing story of the king’s bones being discovered in Leicester hits the screen, we meet the sleuth whose extraordinary tenacity – despite chronic illness – located the monarch

www.theguardian.com

It seems a bit much to believe. The R was carved into the asphalt/concrete? When was the car park installed? I'm thinking late 1800's at the earliest.

 

[scrabulista]

It's not Latin chat but I couldn't figure out where else to put it. I had seen this story discussed on TV -- I thought the R was carved but no it was painted.
To me, that makes the story even more implausible.

 

[Dantius]

‘I had goosebumps!’ – the finder of Richard III’s remains in a car park is celebrated in a Steve Coogan film

As the astonishing story of the king’s bones being discovered in Leicester hits the screen, we meet the sleuth whose extraordinary tenacity – despite chronic illness – located the monarch

www.theguardian.com

When was the car park installed? I'm thinking late 1800's at the earliest.

Well, she explicitly says there's no real connection between the R and Richard, and that it just stood for "reserved," so it's not claiming that there's a genuine connection there. It just contributed to her intuitive feeling that RIII was buried there. I have to imagine there was more evidence, though, given that it says she had to convince archaeologists to listen to her and dig up the car park.

 

[Hawkwood]

There was more evidence. Langley went with the location Audrey Strange proposed in the 1960s.

Edit: correction: it was in fact David Clarke who first proposed the social services car park in 1965. Audrey Strange's essay on same location comes a decade later in 1975.