In Defence of Leicester Archaeologists: Identifying the Skeleton in the Car Park

16th century portrait of Richard III from The National Portrait Gallery

At the end of March 2014 BBC History magazine published an interview with Winchester historian Michael Hicks and archaeologist Martin Biddle in which the 2012 discovery and subsequent identification of the supposed skeleton of Richard III -- previously thought lost -- was refuted on the grounds of inadequate evidence.

Although I'm no archaeological expert, I thought here might be a better place than any to collect my own thoughts from the past few weeks regarding the opinion of Hicks and Biddle in relation to some of the documentary and physical evidence surrounding Richard III's life and death. It is my opinion that there is overwhelming evidence, both scientific and circumstantial, to support the University of Leicester's identification of the skeleton in the carpark as King Richard III.