Thomas Becket: Alpine ice sheds light on medieval murder
Becket, though, had other plans.
In the same way that trees detail their growth in annual rings, so glaciers compact a record of the chemical composition of the air, trapped in bubbles in the yearly build-up of ice.Peveril Castle in the Peak District served as the administrative centre of lead mining in the area Lead and silver are often mined together and in this period, mines in the Peak District and in Cumbria were among the most productive in Europe.
Excommunicated by the Pope in the wake of the murder, Henry's attempt at reconciliation is detailed in the ice core. "The ice core shows precisely when one king died and lead production fell and then rose again with the next monarch," said Prof Loveluck.
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