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Seeking another Scottish consort

Nov 30, 2019

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, buildings, genealogy, Science

Alnwick, bones, Donald Bain, Douai, Dundee Courier, Edmund Ironside, Escorial, Ethelred II, France, French Revolution, Glasgow University, House of Dunkeld, House of Wessex, Malcolm III, Mary Stuart, monasteries, Scotland, Spain, St. Edward the Confessor, St. Margaret of Wessex

(Saint) Margaret of Wessex, great-granddaughter of Ethelred Unraed, granddaughter of Edmund Ironside and great-niece of (St.) Edward the Confessor, died just three days after her husband, Malcolm III was killed at Alnwick in 1093. She, as eventual heiress to the House of Wessex, was the ancestor of every subsequent Scottish monarch except Donald Bain, Malcolm’s…
All bones tell a story – but not all a tale as amazing as Richard III’s….

Nov 19, 2019

archaeology, genealogy, Science

Clan MacDonald, feuds, Glasgow University, identification, Macleod clan, Manchester, murder, Orkneys, Professor Gordon Cook, radio carbon dating, Richard III, Western Isles

Because of Richard III, and all that could be accurately gleaned from his remains, it is now very interesting to read of other cases where bones give up fascinating details. This article describes a grisly discovery on an Orkney beach. How old might it be? I quote: “….The world leading forensic bone scientist heads a…