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Tis the season for discoveries....
Excellent. Strikes a chord with me as my home village (really the southernmost suburb of London since the 1930s) is Cheam, where H VIII's palace of Nonsuch was. The remarkable thing was that the palace had not only disappeared after a disastrous fire in the Restoration period, but even its location had been lost. Paintings of it in the royal collection had been mislabelled as other royal residences, even though comparison with known paintings of those palaces would have immediately shown that they could not be the same place.
In the 1950s, it was the local librarian who was convinced that Henry's great show palace was under the local park, organised an amateur excavation, and proved it really was there... Really should not have been any doubt as our church has a fine collection of Tudor memorials from the brief period when Cheam and its church were the Tudor equivalent of Sandringham today - the little village next door to the royal estate, with the families of some of the aristocratic permanent staff of the palace buried at the church, especially the Lumleys who were the in-laws of the Earl of Arundel.
Basically, moral is local librarian 10, professional academics 0 :)
;D
Absolutely
Used to pass through Collyweston quite often and never knew this was there. The place is famous for its limestone, particularly roof slates.
And conveniently sized building stone......
Quote from: Imperial Dave on December 05, 2023, 11:49:46 AMAnd conveniently sized building stone......
Yes, it's good stuff. And nice colour. Around Collyweston and Easton is the only bit of Northants with drystone field boundaries too
;D