Research uses space-age technology on 16th-century history
Scientists from the Space Research Centre are working with an
art historian to reveal secrets of the Tudor Reformation Phillip
Lindley, of Leicester University, is working with academics from
Yale and Oxford Phillip Lindley, of Leicester University, is
working with academics from Yale and Oxford to fill gaps in
Tudor history. Photograph: Paul Bryan   The tombs, at the parish
church in Framlingham, are close to the family seat of the
Howards, the extremely wealthy and powerful Dukes of Norfolk.
But they were originally sited 40 miles away at Thetford Priory,
traditional resting place of the Howards until Henry VIII had it
dissolved in 1539. They were moved and reassembled some time in
the 1540s while the third duke languished in the Tower of
London. (Henry was becoming increasingly paranoid about the
threat that he posed to his infant heir.) The reassembly process
was flawed, however. Some different materials were used.  What
appear to be fragments of