Medieval Archaeologists Solve The Mystery Of The Lost Beaudesert Castle | Time Team | Chronicle

A castle, reputedly as grand and important as Warwick, once dominated the Midlands village of Henley-in-Arden, but now there is only a hill. The eccentric American owner wants to know what his castle looked like in its heyday.
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Do a show about a castle called Shipbrook. My ancestor Sir Richard DeVernon lived there after the Battle of Hastings. All I can find is a simple drawing of what it might have looked like.

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Thank you 🙏 I found that a wee bit sad how the home/castle just fell down eventually. The end of that family. 🙏🌻🥰🍀👋

[@gramateur5776]

Joe Hardy III, the American purchaser of the Lordship title, died in January 2023 at 100 years old.

[@esbliss13]

Did he pass on his title?

[@JP-zu8ij]

He has a big family here in Pittsburgh. So one of his children got it. He had like 7 or 8 children.

[@philippenachtergal6077]

29:30 Well, a lot depends on the armor quality. A piece made just for the looks for a cosplay or such, would be offer a very poor defense quality (and rightly so). And chainmail would be mostly worn on top of cloth armor.

[@HappyQuailsLC]

It looks like it was thoroughly sacked and everyone had their way with it afterwards and thereafter until nothing remains.

[@HappyQuailsLC]

Something no one is mentioning is how objects, from inside and out are reduced to unreuseable fragments. It looks highly likely to me that early explosives were used to overcome and probably destroy it in the heights of distaste for those inside, as they were probably driven away.

[@nancyhammons3594]

I have a question. Are all the pieces that have been found on this site going to be put in a sort of museum in Henley to be saved and viewed for the future?

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Paul finds some medieval pottery and shows it to Phil, who gets excited and asks: "Can you date this stuff?" Bloody hell, why not just marry it ;)

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[@jefo2405]

And yet the longbow pretty much dissapeared. Why? You could train a crossbowman in weeks, a bowman in many years.

[@philroberts7238]

I'd say it was gunpowder that finally did it for the longbow.

[@Circa500A.D.]

Your next dig should be with Graham Phillips and excavate the tomb of King Arthur. 🤴🇬🇧

[@jturtle5318]

Where is that?

[@flitsertheo]

@@jturtle5318 It's not even certain that he ever really existed, could be just a legend.

[@jturtle5318]

@@flitsertheo he's a legend, probably a mix of leaders. But I hadn't heard of a tomb attributed to him. There are other sites with purported connections to King Arthur.

[@Circa500A.D.]

Graham Phillips has several books on Arthur and it outlines where he might be buried.

[@flitsertheo]

@@Circa500A.D. If you keep digging sooner or or later you will find an ancient tomb, especially in the UK.

[@d.b.2812]

I find it strange that all of England was aerial photographed during ww2 and those old photos might be helpful.

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I wish I could picture what these people can when they unearth something and know what it is just by looking at it ‼️🥴

[@jturtle5318]

It takes a lot of study to recognize the artifacts so easily.

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How's Phil Harding doing ?

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Last news I heard he was involved with a dig at the Waterloo battlefield.

[@esbliss13]

Not a fair contest. The whole point was anybody could use the crossbow. It takes years of practice to use the longbow.

[@guyplachy9688]

Our young crossbowman seems to have missed out on the bit of history where the Pope declared a Holy Writ declaring the use of the English(Welsh - I'm not getting into that argument) longbow to be heretical, & longbowmen not to be covered under the rules of wars, as they stood, & were no longer to be subject to release upon payment of a fine but were to be executed as heretics. He also missed the bit of history about English/Welsh longbowmen being everyday English/Welsh commoners who were required by law to train regularly with the longbow. So they didn't need the "commoners' crossbow" to take on their noble overlords, they had the "commoners' longbow" for that, if they'd really wanted to.

[@gemmaswain2251]

I got the heebie-jeebies listening to the owner talk about putting up a reconstruction. Nooooo! Not covering that pristine archaeology with a theme park!

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Baldrick is a lot smarter than his Black Adder character.

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" Splendid Rubble "

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Medieval Archaeologists? No, 20th century archaeologists investigate a medieval site!

[@HappyQuailsLC]

There should be a more nuanced term to describe those buildings as seen in their model which they are now calling a castle. They are charming, but I'd never think to call them a castle.

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this nonsense is part of what is sick about youtube.

[@johnhansen2187]

Three days is not enough time to survey anything. stop pretending you are doing anything worthwhile.

[@jeffaltier5582]

You do realize this was filmed like 20 years ago, right? And BTW-- they often established sites that were later followed up by full scale excavations based on their findings. So they actually were doing something worthwhile. You just thought you were going to be a clever troll, but really you just sound kind of stupid.

[@dennisp.2147]

On the contrary, since this is a scheduled monument with minimal digging allowed, three days is more than sufficient. Particularly with GeoPhys data.

[@gregb6469]

In just three days they learned a lot about the site that wasn't known before, so I'd say they did do something worthwhile!

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English Heritage is grateful since this has been scheduled since 1933.

[@jturtle5318]

They have full-time jobs as professors. These digs kick-start or augment archeology being done or planned by local groups or lesser funded archeologists.