Poet, pioneer... can family finally honour legacy of Franco victim?

DNA tests will confirm if exhumed body is Republican heroine, Maria Dominguez Remon, who overcame poverty to become the first female martyr

The hair that the clips and comb once held in place, probably in a bun, is long gone, as are the feet that filled the sandals, and the clothes to which the two buttons belong.

All that survives of the middle-aged woman who was murdered in 1936 and exhumed from the cemetery of the small Aragonese town of Fuendejalon last weekend is her skeleton, its split skull punched through by a bullet.