archaeology
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Yesterday I wrote about the 1402 visit to England of the beleaguered Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, see https://murreyandblue.org/2024/12/14/in-1400-england-played-host-to-a-byzantine-emperor/. He was travelling around the western kingdoms desperately seeking support because he was having immense difficulty fending off the encroaching Ottomans. But I have now learned that it was probably an event much further back from…
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MORE ON ELIZABETH WOODVILLE’S LOST CHAPEL, LITTLE ANNE MOWBRAY AND THE WOMEN OF THE MINORIES
“Princes”, “Princess in the Police Station”, Anne Mowbray, Catherine of Valois, Chapel of Erasmus Westminster Abbey, Convent of the Minoresses, Earls of Shrewsbury, Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Henry VII, House of Mowbray, J.P. Reedman, Katherine of Valois, London bombsites, Minories, Samuel Pepys, Sir James Tyrell, Sir Robert Brackenbury, St George’s Chapel WindsorWhile researching my novel on Anne Mowbray, the child bride of Richard of Shrewsbury, younger of the two Princes in the Tower, I found out several things I was previously unaware of. I knew, of course that young Anne’s burial was accidentally discovered in a crypt under a London bombsite that had disappeared. It was…
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One of the largest mass-burial sites ever found in the UK has been discovered next to Leicester Cathedral. It contains “….the skeletal remains of 123 men, women and children dumped down a narrow vertical shaft in the early 12th century….’Their bones show no signs of violence – which leaves us with two alternative reasons for…
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If you hear a wailing and gashing of teeth, both anguished sounds will be emanating from me. Why? Because my rudimentary archaeological endeavours in my garden continue to unearth clay pipes The darned things show no sign of becoming rare and valuable. Other people find great treasures of one sort of another; I find…
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This was shown on BBC2 over three consecutive Mondays, featuring an all-Italian excavation of the abandoned city and the British volcanologist Dr. Chris Jackson. It featured the familiar story of the two-day eruption and pyrochastic flow killing thousands, including Pliny the Elder, before they could escape as many ran from the lava towards the sea…
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… will take place at Weald Hall near Brentwood, which dates from c.1540. It was demolished in 1953 after wartime damage and now forms a Country Park. This news was heavily featured on Look East last Monday. By Super Blue
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As mentioned in this article, excavations have been afoot for some time at Skipsea on the coast of East Yorkshire, under the auspices of the renowned archaeologist Dr Jim Leary (see here https://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/people/jim-leary/). The dig is close to the site of Skipsea Castle, an Iron Age fort that is also of archaeological interest. There is…
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As I write my failure to find anything online about a particular event, apart from someone’s FB page, leads me to hesitate. But let’s assume it IS what’s happening…. It ‘s said that art galleries are suddenly declining to display the above portrait of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour and the boy Edward VI (who died…
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In July 1361 there was a rather bloody conflict….but it wasn’t one of ours, so to speak (Edward III was busy fighting the Hundred Years War with France). “….The Battle of Visby was a violent medieval battle near the town of Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland, fought between the inhabitants of Gotland and…
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