Last week a local newspaper in England reported that a couple of amateur historians had identified graves in the village of Enville, Staffordshire, as holding the remains of Templar knights.
This was not in fact new news: the same paper had, two years ago, reported the same thing. Also last year the same paper, er, reported the same thing.
Nevertheless, since this is a story about the Templars - a subject in which there is no media threshold for publishing ‘any old bullsh1t’, the story has now been picked up pretty much everywhere.
Does that make it true? Umm, well, you know…
As far as I can see from what I have read online there is not very much compelling evidence at all that these are definitely Templar graves.
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