{"id":2714,"date":"2009-11-29T20:45:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T02:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2009-11-29T20:45:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T02:45:39","slug":"archaeological-dig-at-shakespeares-new-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/29\/archaeological-dig-at-shakespeares-new-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeological dig at Shakespeare&#8217;s New Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b>Archaeologists are preparing to excavate the site of Shakespeare&#8217;s final home to find out more about the history of the building.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The New Place, in Stratford-upon-Avon, was built in 1483 and is thought to be where the playwright died in 1616.<\/p>\n<p>The building itself was demolished in 1759, but it is thought remains of the old house are still underground.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists will start initial tests on the site on Tuesday and a full dig could be carried out next year.<\/p>\n<p>The experts from Birmingham Archaeology will be searching for the foundations of the New Place and will be looking through the original wells and possibly rubbish pits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/coventry_warwickshire\/8383306.stm\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Place showed up here back in June as <a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/picture-of-the-week-23\/\">Picture of the Week #23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: Archaeologists are preparing to excavate the site of Shakespeare&#8217;s final home to find out more about the history of the building. The New Place, in Stratford-upon-Avon, was built in 1483 and is thought to be where the playwright died in 1616. The building itself was demolished in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/29\/archaeological-dig-at-shakespeares-new-place\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-news","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}