General Discussion

There is no name or date on the Trinity "grave".

The disastrous 2016 GPR scan backfired on the true believers who permitted it only after pressure resulting from the 2014 discovery of Richard III's remains. To my point about denial in the face of evidence, Holy Trinity Church's Patrick Taylor issued this formal denial:

“We are not convinced that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that his skull has been taken. We intend to continue to respect the sanctity of his grave, in accordance with Shakespeare’s wishes, and not allow it to be disturbed. We shall have to live with the mystery of not knowing fully what lies beneath the stone.”


GPR results seem to confirm what was not found during prior looks into the "grave". During a visit to this church in late 1815, American author Washington Irving spoke with an elderly sexton who told Irving that a few years earlier that he had an opportunity to see beneath the gravestone in the floor when an excavation was underway. The sides of the excavation collapsed and in the process created a hole permitting a view of what was underneath the alleged floor tomb for Shakespeare. Irving states in his Sketch Book, published in 1819, that the sexton “told me he had made bold to look in at the hole, but could see neither coffin nor bones, nothing but dust.”

After the 2016 disaster of "tomb-gate" they spun the results as showing only that no skull was found but meanwhile they quietly started looking at other potential sites such as near the Hathaway Cottage.

Thanks for the LiDAR clarification.