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Alas poor unknown soldier

Published on
January 10, 1997
Last updated
May 27, 2015

(Photograph) - Alas poor unknown soldier: Anthea Boylston, biological anthropologist at Bradford University holds one of 50 500-year-old skulls of Lancastrian soldiers recently unearthed in Tadcaster. He died at Towton, the first major battle of the War of the Roses.

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