Medieval bones finally ready for reburial at Winchester Cathedral Painstaking Mortuary Chests Project proves ‘highly significant’ in fields of archaeology, history, and genetics

It has taken over a decade, but 1300 bones ascribed to early #medieval bishops and royals — returned to six mortuary chests at #WinchesterCathedral following its ransacking during the Civil War — have been matched to individuals and are to be reinterred

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