archaeology
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There are always legends and folk tales about ancient monuments, and Arthur’s Stone in Gower is no exception. It’s also known as Maen Ceti, and yes, its anglicised name refers to the King Arthur He is said to have been strolling in Carmarthenshire and felt a stone in his shoe. So he removed it threw…
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The Tower of London is giving up some of its best-kept medieval secrets. In the most significant dig inside the fortress in a generation, archaeologists have uncovered up to 50 human remains, lost chapels, and a trove of rare artefacts beneath the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula. Read more here: https://shorturl.at/leGSV
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We all know by now that the usurper Henry Tudor, aka Henry VII, was born in Pembroke. The town even boasts a statue of him. Not that he ever did much for the Welsh. He was entirely self-seeking, and had his diminutive mother cracking the whip behind him. Well, we always imagine her being the…
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I have just watched the excellent 2021 film The Dig, about the 1939 discovery of the amazing treasures of Sutton Hoo. It stars Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan and I thoroughly enjoyed it…but then, out of interest, I read more online. And lo! Yet again the truth had been tampered with from the moment the…
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The specialist contractors (the Olivetti Group) who worked on the burial area of Richard’s Greyfriars resting place (now relocated to the Richard III Visitors Centre) have used the word “eerie” to describe the experience. Their task was to replace the protective glazing that protects it, which was cracked by a bottle accidentally dropped by a…
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Well, well, another university is accused of trying to stop other researchers’ work! See here: (https://discover.swns.com/2026/07/researchers-snubbed-by-university-in-bid-to-dig-for-king-alfreds-remains/) It’s Winchester this time, and the lost king is Alfred the Great. Oh, echoes of Leicester and Richard III. Anyway, here’s another link about this: https://discover.swns.com/2026/07/researchers-snubbed-by-university-in-bid-to-dig-for-king-alfreds-remains/ Is The Lost King 2 on the horizon….? Hmm. Probably not.
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“….Work to replace a cracked glazed panel that covers the original burial site of King Richard III [got] under way on Wednesday (8 July)….The king’s grave – formerly located in the choir of the long-gone Greyfriars Priory – is now part of Leicester’s award-winning King Richard III Visitor Centre and has been glazed over since…
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For the armchair archaeologists among us, here’s a link (https://tinyurl.com/23ds5mjm) about the finding of an ancient ‘sunken’ village/buildings connected to Loddington Hall in Leicestershire. From this link I investigated more and found the gbnews article (https://www.gbnews.com/science/archaeology-breakthrough-east-midlands-loddington-medieval-britain ) identified under the image of archaeologists below. There is also https://worldomep.org/news/university-of-leicester-archaeology-loddington-uncovers-timber-buildings-that-rewrote-local-history/, and you can listen to the BBC…
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Well the claim in the title above must be true, because it says so on this YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrkJ4M0Mx4M. 🙄 Boo! Hiss! So here’s more about the first Lancastrian Henry to usurp the throne of a rightful King Richard. We’re talking Bolingbroke, a.k.a. Henry IV, right? Not a long video, doesn’t reach 2 minutes, but,…
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“….A 14th Century church has been saved from closure after the discovery of a ‘miracle’ hoard of gold coins worth nearly £30,000 found hidden under the altar….” Hallelujah (some might say! 😇). St Wilfrid’s Church, Melling in Lancashire has been saved from closure by the discovery of a £30,000 hoard of gold coins hidden under…
