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Knight's skeleton found at Stirling Castle
The skeletons of a knight, a jouster and several courtiers have been found in Stirling Castle in Scotland.
The 10 sets of bones were found in shallow graves under the floor of a former army kitchen.
Experts say they prove the building is the long-lost private chapel of James IV.
The knight was Englishman Sir John Strickeley, killed during a siege at the castle in 1341. The jouster died from injuries sustained during a tournament and the courtiers served Scotland's early Stuart kings.
Dating to the early 1100s, the chapel is the oldest building identified at the castle, reports the Daily Record.
It fell into disuse after James IV built the castle's present Chapel Royal as an act of penance for his sins in plotting his father's death.
Kirkland Archaeology's Gordon Ewart, who found the remains, said: "Persons of high status would have been buried here during times of siege when they could not have been taken outside the walls."
Story filed: 08:31 Tuesday 18th September 2001