What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines? As Edmund: In Search of England's Lost King suggests, present obscurity may conceal a find as significant as the emergence from beneath a Leicester car-park of the remains of Richard III. For Bury, Francis Young now reveals, is the probable site of the body - placed in an `iron chest' but lost during the Dissolution of the Monasteries - of Edmund: martyred monarch of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia and, well before St George, England's first patron saint. After the king was slain by...
What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines? As Edmund: In Search of England's Lost King sugge...