article_snippet: The lead coffin, inlaid with a crucifix (top) was found just feet from the remains of Richard III.
article_snippet: not long after the Grey Friars church was first built 1250 - nearly two centuries before Richard III's died.
article_snippet: The lead coffin was found inside a limestone sarcophagus (above) under the choir of the Grey Friars church .
article_snippet: the skeleton was discovered in a shallow grave beneath the site of the friary in 2012.
article_snippet: the Plantagenet king had been buried in a crudely dug grave within the Grey Friars church in 1485.
article_snippet: A further eight graves containing women were found around the spot where Richard III had been buried.
article_snippet: Scientists believe Scientists could be at least seven more graves on the site of the old Grey Friars church, which was being used as a car park when archaeologists began excavating in Scientists search for the body of Richard III .
article_snippet: – large, neatly dug graves with coffins – and the crudeness of Richard III’s grave. '
article_snippet: The becomes how atypical Richard III’s burial really was.'
article_snippet: In total archaeologists exhumed three of the women found buried on the site of Grey Friars and left six undisturbed.
article_snippet: Archaeologists uncovered Medieval floor tiles during the excavation that Archaeologists believe would have formed the floor of the friary under which the body of Richard III and the women found on the site of Grey Friars were buried .
highlights_snippet: Coffin was within a stone sarcophagus just feet from Richard III's grave .
  
highlights_snippet: They were found under a car park that was the site of Grey Friars church .
  
highlights_snippet: Coffin was inlaid with a crucifix and buried close to the high altar .
  
highlights_snippet: an elderly woman probably died around 1250 - 200 years before Richard III's died in battle .
  