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'Robin Hood's Escape Tunnel Found'
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| 8-16-2002
Posted on 08/16/2002 3:34:58 PM PDT by blam
'Robin Hood's escape tunnel found'
Experts believe they've found a tunnel that allowed Robin Hood to escape from the Sheriff of Nottingham.
The secret passageway found under the Galleries of Justice museum in Nottingham is eight feet below street level.
Archaeologists excavating 14th-century manmade caves beneath the museum stumbled upon it accidentally when they broke through a rotten wood floor.
The museum's curator Louise Connell says the tunnel leads towards St Mary's Church, where ancient documents say Robin sought sanctuary from the Sheriff 's men.
The Evening Post says it's believed he used the tunnel to escape from the church, which they'd surrounded.
Experts from the University of Nottingham will now try to date the four feet wide and five feet high passage by clearing rubble blocking it. It's thought to date to the 12th century.
Archaeologist Gavin Kingsley said: "This is an amazing find and goes some way to substantiating the theory that Robin Hood was trapped within St Mary's Church and used the cave system to escape."
Story filed: 20:21 Friday 16th August 2002
TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: caves; england; escape; forstofnottingham; found; godsgravesglyphs; hood; kingjohn; middleages; nottingham; nottinghamgaol; richardthelionheart; robin; robingoodfellow; robinhood; sheriffofnottingham; thegreenman; tunnel; unitedkingdom; wales; yorkshire
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To: ContentiousObjector
Thanks. The list of suspects is interesting and I noticed that Sickert isn't even mentioned.
To: Friedrich Hayek
No, you are wrong. If you remember the original story, Robin was knocking over the Sheriff's shipments of tax revenue. He was stealing taxes from the government and giving it back to the people who earned it.Don't forget the clerics whose pockets he lightened as well. His targets were corrupt government and corrupt church officials.
Actually, Robin Hood wasn't a real man but a legendary conglomeration of several whose exploits got embellished in the retelling.
To: Shooter 2.5
just watch out on that site, there is some pretty graphic photography without any warning,
To: ContentiousObjector
Thanks. When I saw the interview, I was really impressed with the way the lady was explaining her step by step process. I had forgotten that the Jack investigations are England's "JFK Assassination" moneymaker. I should have guessed of a possible link between the TV interview and the book publishers.
Sort of what's happening with this article about Robin's "tunnel". I noticed that they're so insistant that it's his, that they haven't even established that it does connect to the church. Eight feet under the ground isn't a lot. Chances are the tunnel is collapsed before it reaches the church or part of it's natural and it wanders off in another direction. I would love to find out that it connects to a secret door somewhere in the church.
We had a cave in our backyard that was just below the surface at about 12 feet. From the rock formations inside, my son was the only one to explore it in a lot of years. It connected to the next sink hole a block away from our house.
To: GretchenEE
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a novel about a fictional guy very much like Robin Hood. It's an outstanding children's novel and not too shabby for adults to read, either. It's called The Black Arrow.
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08/17/2002 8:39:53 AM PDT
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the_doc
To: GretchenEE
Hmmm ... wonder if that's where we get the term, "hoodlums"? People who wished to remain anonymous while doing skulky things would pull a hood over their head (like those who use stockings or ski masks in modern day).
So "hoodlum" doesn't come from Robin Hood but they both have the same literary parentage.
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posted on
08/17/2002 8:46:45 AM PDT
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No.6
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12/17/2010 7:43:16 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: tet68
Marion: Oh Robin
Robin: The Friar is looking mighty good in that cloak. He needs to accessorize more.
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12/17/2010 7:59:37 AM PST
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AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: tet68
Marion: Oh Robin
Robin: The Friar is looking mighty good in that cloak. He needs to accessorize more.
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12/17/2010 8:00:19 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: blam
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12/17/2010 8:02:13 AM PST
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GOPJ
(Sharpton wants Limbaugh off the air- if you don't hate liberals yet, you're not paying attention.)
To: DonQ
Maybe Robin Hood lived in the 13th century; maybe he lived in the 14th. The tunnel dates from the 12th century.
To: chudogg
"Was Robin Hood a Liberal who stole from the rich and redistributed it to the poor? Or was he a Conservative who gave the tax money back to the commonfolk which was rightfully theirs?" The sherriff of Nottingham was the government. So, Robin Hood simply recovered what the government stole from the people... so he was a conservative!!!
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12/17/2010 11:30:25 AM PST
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Beowulf9
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Note: this topic is from 08/16/2002. Thanks blam. We haven't revisited the mythical figure of Robin Hood in far too long, and this topic is, I think, the oldest one on FR.
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posted on
03/10/2019 3:11:46 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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03/10/2019 3:12:49 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
There are quite a few very well researched books about the Robin Hood legend written by several different Brit scholars. The strongest arguments re Robin are that he is a combination of about three different people who really lived back then, but their stories got combined, romanticized,and merged with a few bits and pieces of Celtic pagan mythology, over the years.
And when the 19th century rediscovered and glamorized the whole knights/chivalry stuff, they also added onto the Robin Hood legend as well.
To: AppyPappy
Errol Flynn is the definitive movie Robin Hood. Still watchable after all these years.
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03/11/2019 2:34:59 PM PDT
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wildbill
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