TV role for archaeologist

Archaeological research by a former pupil of the Grove School, Balderton, will feature on BBC2's History Cold Case programme tonight.

Dr Jo Buckberry, 34, who is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Mike Buckberry of Russell Avenue, Balderton, is an experimental officer and lecturer working at Bradford University's Anthropology Research Centre.

Her expertise into the analysis of human skeletal remains, their diseases and how they were buried was used for a project involving Historic Scotland and a specialist team from the University of Dundee.

The project has been looking at the human remains of a dozen skeletons which were discovered in 1997 in a lost chapel in the grounds of Stirling Castle during preparatory work for a £12m project in which the Renaissance Palace at the castle is being returned to how it looked in the 1540s.

Tonight's programme will focus on how and why two of the skeletons, a man and a woman, whose remains were found in the chapel, died a violent death between 1270 and 1400.

It starts at 9pm.

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