article_snippet: A mysterious skeleton found buried inside a lead coffin beside the remains of Richard III's could belong to a revered holy woman who was said to reduce time spent in purgatory for those that prayed for Emma Holt's soul.
article_snippet: Archaeologists believe the elderly woman, whose lead coffin was inlaid with a crucifix, may have been buried nearly 200 years before the last Plantagenet king of England.
article_snippet: Inside was the skeleton of a woman who is thought to have died in her 60s about 200 years before the last Plantagenet king of England .
article_snippet: It is thought that the woman had died in the woman 60s.
article_snippet: However, little more is known about Nevill Holt in Leicestershire, and it was likely none of women found buried under Grey Friars will ever be completely identified.
article_snippet: We don't have any known descendants who can provide a DNA sample, so despite having a known woman buried here and a skeleton with a set of attributes We cannot link the two together. '
article_snippet: Unfortunately the skeleton will always remain anonymous.'
article_snippet: Two graves, inside the choir, contained wooden coffins with a woman inside each aged between 40 and 50 years old.
article_snippet: Radiocarbon dating shows that the women probably died between 1270 and 1400, while osteological analysis of the bones show that one of the women had a congenital hip dislocation that would have forced The other woman to walk with a crutch.
article_snippet: The other woman was found to have lived a life of hard physical labour, regularly using The other woman arms and legs to life heavy weights.
article_snippet: Another skeleton, which had been disturbed and reburied in early building work, also showed signs of hard physical work and is believed to have died in The other woman mid-20s.
article_snippet: We know this woman was over 60 when this woman died.
highlights_snippet: Archaeologists discovered the bones of an elderly woman in Coffin .
  
highlights_snippet: Experts say an elderly woman may have been Emma Holt from Nevill Holt, Leicestershire .
  