{"id":594,"date":"2008-10-17T09:08:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T14:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2008-10-17T09:08:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T14:08:47","slug":"archaeologists-find-medieval-foundations-at-hampton-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/17\/archaeologists-find-medieval-foundations-at-hampton-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists find medieval foundations at Hampton Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Mail Online:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Archaeologists working at Hampton Court Palace have uncovered the earliest foundations ever found at King Henry VIII&#8217;s famous royal residence.<\/p>\n<p>The significant 13th century building remains predate any other finds made at the palace by nearly 200 years.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected discoveries were made during excavations as part of a project to recreate Henry VIII&#8217;s Tudor 16th century courtyards.<\/p>\n<p>Stone foundations and walls of a substantial medieval structure measuring 10metres by 25metres were found in Base Court, the largest interior courtyard of the Tudor palace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The project to represent Base Court for the 500th anniversary of King Henry VIII&#8217;s accession to the throne will be complete by March 2009.<\/p>\n<p>This will then herald the beginning of a series of exhibitions, events and activities to mark the historic anniversary.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-1078477\/Archaeologists-discover-earliest-foundations-Hampton-Court-Palace-800-years-ago.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article<\/a> (with some neat overhead pictures of the excavations)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mail Online: Archaeologists working at Hampton Court Palace have uncovered the earliest foundations ever found at King Henry VIII&#8217;s famous royal residence. The significant 13th century building remains predate any other finds made at the palace by nearly 200 years. The unexpected discoveries were made during excavations as part&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/17\/archaeologists-find-medieval-foundations-at-hampton-court\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}