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The Bosworth Boar

3 January 2011

A silver boar badge dropped in the mud over 500 years ago by one of King Richard III's own knights and the iconic British toy Action Man, designed and produced in Coalville, have been voted Leicestershire's favourite museum objects.

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• Also see : http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/leicester/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9176000/9176446.stm
• Also see : http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/leisure_tourism/museums/museumcollections/revealed/revealed_objects/revealed_objects_bosworthboar.htm