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Title: St Edmund buried under a tennis court?
Post by: Imperial Dave on May 01, 2017, 10:38:34 PM
and before you ask......its from a different source to my usual, although still not quite The Guardian status..... ;)

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/archaeologists-hunt-remains-anglo-saxon-10333634#ICID=sharebar_twitter
Title: Re: St Edmund buried under a tennis court?
Post by: Patrick Waterson on May 02, 2017, 08:47:50 AM
The best way to find him would be to arrange for the tennis court to become a car park ... seriously, I would give the archaeologists a good chance of being right, as the monks would have wished to put Edmund's remains in consecrated ground, and would almost certainly give their own consecrated ground preference.
Title: Re: St Edmund buried under a tennis court?
Post by: Imperial Dave on May 02, 2017, 09:08:06 AM
does geophys work through asphalt?
Title: Re: St Edmund buried under a tennis court?
Post by: Duncan Head on May 02, 2017, 09:08:28 AM
And I was just asking about missing Kings - are they sure he isn't in Leicester?
Title: Re: St Edmund buried under a tennis court?
Post by: Erpingham on May 02, 2017, 09:17:10 AM
Quote from: Holly on May 02, 2017, 09:08:06 AM
does geophys work through asphalt?

IIRC, ground penetrating radar does.
Title: Re: St Edmund buried under a tennis court?
Post by: Imperial Dave on May 02, 2017, 10:07:31 AM
thanks and I have now just spent 20 minutes on Wikipedia reading into GPR  ::)  ;D

Title: Re: St Edmund buried under a tennis court?
Post by: Nick Harbud on May 02, 2017, 04:08:28 PM
Quote from: Holly on May 01, 2017, 10:38:34 PM
and before you ask......its from a different source to my usual, although still not quite The Guardian status..... ;)

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/archaeologists-hunt-remains-anglo-saxon-10333634#ICID=sharebar_twitter

Of course not.  The Guardian would have him buried under a cruet....  ;D
Title: Re: St Edmund buried under a tennis court?
Post by: Imperial Dave on May 02, 2017, 06:45:44 PM
Quote from: NickHarbud on May 02, 2017, 04:08:28 PM
Quote from: Holly on May 01, 2017, 10:38:34 PM
and before you ask......its from a different source to my usual, although still not quite The Guardian status..... ;)

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/archaeologists-hunt-remains-anglo-saxon-10333634#ICID=sharebar_twitter

Of course not.  The Guardian would have him buried under a cruet....  ;D

or a croquet lawn :)
Title: Re: St Edmund buried under a tennis court?
Post by: Tim on May 02, 2017, 07:52:38 PM
Holly is obviously not a regular Grauniad reader else he would have understood that croquet lawn is too large an error but Tennis cruet or Tennis cot is almost certainly a real life typo from Manchester...
Title: Re: St Edmund buried under a tennis court?
Post by: Imperial Dave on May 02, 2017, 08:14:25 PM
I make no claims to any particular tabloid or broadsheet loyalty  ::)