{"id":80326,"date":"2026-07-10T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/80326\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:22:23","slug":"king-alfred-the-greats-long-lost-remains-found-in-hampshire-car-park-in-omen-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/80326\/","title":{"rendered":"King Alfred the Great’s long-lost remains ‘found in Hampshire car park’ in ‘omen’ for England"},"content":{"rendered":"

The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been located in a Winchester car park, a leading researcher has claimed. <\/p>\n

Graham Phillips, a 72-year-old historian from Birmingham, believes the bones of the legendary Anglo-Saxon king rest under River Park, a car park in the Hampshire city where Alfred both died and was originally laid to rest.<\/p>\n

The timing has not escaped Mr Phillips, who sees parallels between Alfred’s historic triumph over Viking invaders and England’s impending clash with Erling Haaland’s Norway in Miami.<\/p>\n

Alfred the Great secured his place in English history through his decisive victory against Viking forces at the Battle of Edington in 878.<\/p>\n

He is the only King of England to earn the epithet “the Great”.<\/p>\n

Earlier that year, a surprise Norse assault had driven the king into retreat into the fields of Somerset, where he assembled an army which ultimately compelled the invaders to surrender.<\/p>\n

He would then reclaim Wessex, then London, and earn recognition as King of the Anglo-Saxons, establishing the groundwork for the unified England of which his grandson Aethelstan would become the first king.<\/p>\n

After his death in 899, Alfred’s remains embarked on a complicated journey through history.<\/p>\n

They were interred at Winchester Cathedral, before being transferred to Hyde Abbey in 1110 – which was later demolished during Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries in 1539.<\/p>\n

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Graham Phillips believes the bones of the legendary Anglo-Saxon king rest under River Park in Winchester<\/p>\n

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Bones believed to belong to Alfred were unearthed at the abbey site in 1866 and subsequently reburied at St Bartholomew’s Church.<\/p>\n

But carbon dating conducted by archaeologists in 2013 revealed these bones came from roughly two centuries after Alfred’s death.<\/p>\n

Mr Phillips embarked on his own investigation and made a breakthrough last summer whilst examining documents at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n

He uncovered an article penned by historian Henry Howard in the journal Archaeologia in 1800.<\/p>\n

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Alfred the Great secured his place in English history through his decisive victory against Viking forces at the Battle of Edington in 878<\/p>\n

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The document revealed that when a prison was built next to to the site in 1788, the graves were converted into a garden for the warden’s residence.<\/p>\n

Crucially, Mr Howard’s account detailed how prisoners relocated the bones and included a map showing their new location.<\/p>\n

“I am 100 per cent confident the car park site is where the bones were, and I’m confident they are there now,” he told The Sun.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s a good omen ahead of England’s match against Norway.<\/p>\n

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Mr Phillips described it as ‘a good omen’ ahead of England’s clash with Erling Haaland’s Norway<\/p>\n

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“We may have finally found Alfred’s remains so is this a sign we can win the World Cup.”<\/p>\n

The historian is calling for archaeologists to undertake a non-invasive geophysical survey using a ground-penetrating radar.<\/p>\n

The same technique was used to successfully locate Richard III’s remains in a Leicester car park in 2012.<\/p>\n

Mr Phillips’ research was featured on Wednesday night in an episode of Weird Britain on Blaze TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been located in a Winchester car park, a leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[380,2006,18,4008,16,547,5,6],"class_list":["post-80326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-across-the-uk","tag-archaeology","tag-news","tag-science","tag-sgg","tag-south-east","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116894010126119979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}