The New Murrey and Blue blog

Here is the urn in Westminster Abbey, purporting to contain the remains of the “Princes” as found in 1672, although we don’t know whether they were discovered a few decades earlier and reburied soon afterwards. We also don’t know how many individuals are in the urn and whether they are related, which species they are, their sex, age or era. Carbon dating and DNA analysis may eventually answer some of those questions.

Here is the Ashes urn kept in the Long Room at Lord’s, four or five miles away. It dates from 1882 and is supposed to contain the remains of a bail or stump, but again we don’t have a clue as to the real contents and analysis hasn’t even been discussed.