King In A Box

Archaeologists believe that a bone found in a cardboard box in the Winchester museum store may have belonged to the English king Alfred the Great.
The section of human pelvis was in a heap of animal bones and some human fragments excavated from the abbey site in 1999. It has been carbon-dated to within the lifetimes of Alfred the Great and his son Edward the Elder.
Alfred laid the foundations for a kingdom that would become known as England and was the only British monarch to be called "Great".

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