Thousands of Rare Artifacts Discovered Beneath Tudor Manor’s Attic Floorboards

Smithsonian Magazine ^ | 8/17/20 | Nora McGreevy

[Bigg Red]

How exciting.

[aimhigh]

Decades ago, I worked in the attic of my (then) house, built in 1911. I found a Portland Journal (Oregon) newspaper from the early 1940s. There was an editorial about the Nazi’s threat to bomb Britain. The paper’s writer dismissed the threat by saying it would be too evil, and that there was goodness in every man that would prevent Goering from bombing Britain.

[mass55th]

Makes you wonder how many other treasures are lying under attic floors in other manors across the country.

[ADemocratNoMore]

Might I suggest a little enhancement makes for a little bit easier viewing...

[ebb tide]

Four days later on January 29 1536 Catherine of Aragon was buried in Peterborough Cathedral. People still place pomegranates on her tomb. Catherine’s mourners included Lady Bedingfield (the wife of Sir Edmund Bedingfield –

1536- the year of three queens

Catherine of Aragon wsa Henry VIII's first and only legitmate wife.

[BenLurkin]

That’s some shack.

[21twelve]

“Makes you wonder how many other treasures are lying under attic floors in other manors across the country.”

Years ago I was interesting in metal detecting and was reading and learning on various websites.

I recall one guy telling the story of how one of his detecting buddies quit doing that, and would explore abandoned houses instead. But would still meet up with his detecting buddies at the bar to swap stories.

One day the guy came in and had one beer and bought a round for his buddies. Then told them that he was done with searching the old houses.

He sold his home that he had had forever and they never saw him again. His buddies like to think that he had found suitcases stuffed full of $100 bills and went to the Bahamas!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#5. Looks like “Lego Mansion”. Dig the tower on the left. (Sorry for the word “dig” but I was an archaeologist at one time. As the nuns used to say, “Old habits die hard”).

Looks likes it wants to eat you.

[SunkenCiv]

Must be a b**** to dust though.

[Mr Radical]

per Wikipedia The hall is well known for its priest hole...The room is reached via a trapdoor, which when closed blends in with the tiled floor. Unlike many similar priest holes, the one at Oxburgh is open to visitors.
apparently, the house also boasts a resident ghost.

[Fresh Wind]

Was there a Ford Tudor in the garage?

[robowombat]

This mansion was in the Catholic country in Elizabethan times. A good book about how sophisticated and relentless the agents of Walsingham were in crushing the ‘English Mission’ is detailed in God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs.

[Lurker]

“Where’s the priest hole?”

Around back.

L

[madison10]

It was Portland afterall. Is this your version of the Babylon Bee? 🙂

[SunkenCiv]

Glad there was never a convertible version, because, uh, punchline redacted.

[pbear8]

Thanks!

[mass55th]

Thanks for sharing. That’s a great story, and I hope his friend did find a fortune, and lived happily ever after.

[aimhigh]

It was Portland afterall. Is this your version of the Babylon Bee?

Nope. It was a real editorial.

[madison10]

Amazing!