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Old air pollution, trapped in The Ice , revealing new details about the life and death in 12Th Century Britain.

The Scientists have found traces of lead, transported by the winds from the British mines, which in the late 1100s.

the air pollution by lead, in This Time was as bad as during the Industrial Revolution centuries later.

The pollution also sheds light on an infamous murder of the medieval period; the murder of Thomas Becket .

The Assassination of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket , in 1170 in his Cathedral was a horrible event that made the headlines in all of Europe.

The King , Henry II and Becket were once very Close , had Becket Henry the Chancellor, before he Archbishop was made.

Henry thought that The Appointment would obtain The Crown to be in control of the rich, powerful, and relatively independent of The Church .

, though, had other plans.

Henry 's growing annoyance with his Archbishop, The King led, allegedly, to pronounce the famous sentence: "there is No One to free me priest of this bumpy?"

Unfortunately for Becket , a group of knights that decided to be loyal to The King , to make Henry 's wish come true.

Becket was beheaded in a violent robbery in Canterbury Cathedral on 29. December 1170.

Now scientists have ice core found Physical Evidence for the impact of the dispute between Henry and Becket in a 72-metre-long, retrieved from the Colle Gnifetti glacier in the Swiss-Italian Alps.

In the same way that trees, detail rings of growth in a year, so glacier compact a record of the chemical composition of the air trapped in the bubbles in the annual build-up of ice.

the analysis of the 800-year-old ice cream with a highly sensitive laser, scientists were able to see a huge surge in lead in air and dust, captured in the 12Th Century .

Atmospheric modeling showed that the item was carried by the winds from The North , the West, in the United Kingdom, where lead mining and smelting boomed in the late 1100s.

silver and lead are often mined together and in This Time , in the mines, in The Peak District and Cumbria were among The Most productive in Europe.

The researchers were able to get the physical records from The Ice posted to result tax records, and silver-production in England.

many uses in This Time of the water pipes in The Church roofs and Stained Glass windows had to Lead.

But the production of the metal was clearly in connection with political events, the authors of the latest Research .

"of 1169-70 time, there was a great quarrel between Henry II and Thomas Beckett , and, the conflict is manifested through The Church refuses to work with Henry and you actually see a decline in production this year," said Prof Christopher Loveluck, University of Nottingham.

excommunication by the Pope in The Wake of the murder of Henry 's attempt to reconciliation is described in detail in The Ice core.

"To the prison with the Pope, Henry promised to equip and build a lot of large monastic institutions very, very quickly," said Prof Loveluck.

"And, of course, large amounts of lead were used for roofing of the great monastery.

"Lead to the production quickly expanded, as Henry tried to repent for his transgressions against The Church . "

The researchers say that their data also show clearly enough that the clear connections between production, lead to rising and falling during times of war and between the reigns of different kings in this period between 1170 and 1220.

"The Ice core shows exactly the time when a king died, and lead production fell, And Then rose again with The Next monarch," said Prof Loveluck.

"We see the death of King Henry II, Richard the lion-heart and King John in the old ice. "

The Scientists say the scale of the mining and smelting of lead at This Time causes lead to the same levels of pollution as in the 17Th Century , and in the year 1890.

they argue that the idea that air pollution began with the Industrial Revolution are wrong.

in The journal antiquity.

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