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Posted on 07/17/2021 9:30:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Studies by Archaeologists from the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and Wessex Archaeology, suggests that the Anchor Church Caves in Derbyshire, England, was the home of a deposed Anglo-Saxon King.
The caves were carved from the Keuper Sandstone outcrop, close to the present-day village of Ingleby, and had previously been thought to have been an 18th century folly...
Edmund Simons, a research fellow at the Royal Agricultural University said: “This makes it probably the oldest intact domestic interior in the UK – with doors, floor, roof, windows etc – and, what’s more, it may well have been lived in by a king who became a saint!”
“Using detailed measurements, a drone survey, and a study of architectural details, it was possible to reconstruct the original plan of three rooms and easterly facing oratory, or chapel, with three apses.” Added Simons.
The cave has comparable Saxon architecture, similar to those found in the Saxon crypt at nearby Repton, and has a legendary association with Saint Hardulph, as documented in a fragment from a 16th century book that states, “that time Saint Hardulph has a cell in a cliff a little from the Trent”.
Scholars’ identity Hardulph with King Eardwulf of Northumbria, who was deposed in AD 806 and spent the last years of his life exiled in Mercia. Hardulph died around AD 830, and was buried at Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire, just five miles from the cave site...
More archaeological and scientific dating is now planned to confirm the architectural evidence.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
Beach property it’s good to be the king.
Cool post. It is interesting how old buildings can sometimes in plain site.
Where I grew up in South East Montana there are hidden old log cabin that are hidden within regular looking farmhouses. This is because the homesteaders incorporated the log walls of the cabin into the farmhouse as they expanded their log cabins out and up a story with cut lumber.
Does it have marble countertops?
I’m not even going to look at it unless it has marble countertops.
And a walk in shower.
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Beach property it’s good to be the king.
or a big toilet
Country estate on large lot.
In ground heating system, running water on property.
Kitchen has stone countertops.
See owner.
This is why you must separate the head from the shoulders.
LOL!
Did it have cable tv?
Wish they could have shown photos fro. Inside, would be interesting g to see how elaborate or not it was, co sidering that he was ex royalty
Perfect. LOL.
That’s the Garage!
Needs an open floor plan or my wife won’t even look at it.
It has a walk out shower
It looks like lakefront. I wonder if it came with bug screens?
I thought it was King Lear who was exiled?
A buddy of mine went to put in a Woodstock in an old farm house he bought and found he had to cut through logs to do it
Would have never known looking at it
Derbyshire? Ah hah. But did they find the Kirwood Derby? Inquiring minds want to know.
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