Car park dig for Richard III’s lost grave ‘going well’

An archaeological dig searching for the lost grave of Richard III has exceeded expectations during its first week, organisers have said.

Experts from the University of Leicester have so far excavated two 98ft-long (30m) trenches at a car park in the city centre thought to cover the site of a Franciscan friary where the former king is believed to have been buried in 1485.

Working alongside members of the Richard III Society, archaeologists have unearthed medieval window tracery, fragments of glazed floor tiles and a section of wall which may have belonged to the Greyfriars church.

Work at the car park, which is owned by Leicester City Council, began on August 24 with archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar equipment to mark out the trenches.