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The bones of King Alfred the Great or his son, Edward the Elder, are believed to have been found in a box stored in a museum - and not buried in an unmarked grave as previously thought.
Archaeologists carried out an exhumation of the grave at St Bartholomew's Church in Winchester, Hampshire, last March in a bid to find the last resting place of the ninth-century king.
Tests have shown that those remains were not the influential warrior king but further investigations have uncovered a pelvis bone which had been in storage at Winchester City Museum from a previous excavation carried out at the end of the 1990s.
Carbon dating has shown that this bone dates back to 895-1017, which scientists from the University of Winchester believe ties in with the death of the two kings and is unlikely to have come from anyone apart from the father or the son.
Archaeologists searching for the remains of King Alfred the Great think they may have found his pelvis bone.
However, they also think it could belong to his son Edward the Elder.
Last year a team searching for King Alfred was granted permission to exhume the remains of the Unmarked Grave, located in the grounds of St Bartholomew's Church in Winchester.
The excavation and examination of bones was carried out by the Department of Archaeology at the University of Winchester.
At the press conference a short time ago, the team revealed a new piece of evidence that sheds light on this historic mystery.
They believe a pelvis bone they found at Hyde Abbey - not in unmarked grave - is either Alfred the Great or his son Edward the Elder.
The next great mystery of where a king is buried could be solved as archaeologists try to find the grave of Alfred the Great.
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