{"id":76,"date":"2005-12-02T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/02\/ancient-royal-tomb-at-westminster-abbey\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T09:33:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:33:33","slug":"ancient-royal-tomb-at-westminster-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/02\/ancient-royal-tomb-at-westminster-abbey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Royal Tomb at Westminster Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not strictly Tudor, but interesting!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\">From the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\">Experts believe they have uncovered the tomb of England&#8217;s King Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey. Archaeologists using radar have also discovered a series of royal tombs dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries in under-floor chambers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\">The discoveries were made as experts investigated the construction of the Abbey&#8217;s 13th-century mosaic pavement.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>See the rest of the article at the link above.<\/p>\n<p>[Comments are closed on older posts. If you wish to make a comment, please contact Lara via the link in the sidebar.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not strictly Tudor, but interesting! From the BBC: Experts believe they have uncovered the tomb of England&#8217;s King Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey. Archaeologists using radar have also discovered a series of royal tombs dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries in under-floor chambers. The discoveries were made&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/02\/ancient-royal-tomb-at-westminster-abbey\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14898,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/14898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}