Confirmed Richard 3rd remains found

jane, I heard somewhere that one of the suggested reasons for very worn teeth is that flour (which may not have been wheat; barley perhaps, or rye) would have been stone ground and very tiny bits of grit, too small to be detectable in the bread, but gritty enough to damage tooth enamel, rather than food fibre.

Don't know but that is what they said on the news.

Sorry, bad sentence. Comprehensible, I hope!

Bags yes, my teeth are just on edge thinking about it

About the scoliosis - I think bone lady said that the curvature was lateral, so that he wouldn't have had a sticking-out hunch, but his right shoulder would have been higher than his left ?? not sure about that. Galen are you there?

Sorry I missed the programme but I still think there's no sense in leaving him in Leicester. It's normal to 'repatriate' those fallen in battle and bring them home to their family. I wonder if the 'relative', whoever they are, whose DNA they used has any say in the matter of where he is laid to rest?

Thought the programme wasn't as bad as some of Channel 4's efforts but I was longing for more of the science. I presume more will come out over the next few months. I would like to see a whole body reconstruction so that we could see the affect of the scoliosis and whether it was likely to impede him much. I would like to see him go back to York, but it may be a lost cause.

The petition to return him to Yorkshire is doing quite well.