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Today we hear of the fate of Sir Walter Raleigh’s head.

Tags:

• Archaeology
• excavation
• Sir Walter Raliegh
• Execution
• Bess
• Elizabeth
• Throckmorton
• Queen Elizabeth
• Tudor
• monarch
• Stuarts
• King James
• I of England
• VI of Scotland
• death
• be-headed
• red
• leather
• bag
• till death do us part
• Tower of London
• Love
• romance
• dedication
• name
• restoration
• embalmed
• keepsake
• relic

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