Ela Fitzpayne was a powerful aristocrat who offended the Archbishop of Canterbury and was ordered to do a "walk of shame." ...

Hundreds of skeletons were recently uncovered by archaeologists while they were excavating a British university's property – the discovery was a complete surprise.

Medieval murder: Records suggest ... and two others her recent servants. ... Forde was the rector of the church of Okeford Fitzpaine, a village on the Fitzpayne family’s Dorset estate.

Archaeologists were astonished to uncover hundreds of skeletons while excavating the grounds of a British university, which once hosted a medieval church demolished in the 1650s.

Further excavations revealed approximately 170 earlier burials, the majority of which are provisionally thought to relate to the medieval church, St. Aldate's Church, that stood there before it ...