‘Lost’ home depicted in iconic Bayeux Tapestry found – all thanks to an 11th century toilet
King Harold II, one of the subjects of the Bayeux Tapestry, was famously killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Archaeologists uncover ‘lost’ home depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
Archaeologists believe they found a residence of medieval ruler Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. A nearby ...
'Lost site' depicted in iconic Bayeux Tapestry found thanks to revelation of ancient loo
Newcastle University announced the discovery of Harold Godwinson's – aka King Harold II – residence in Bosham, a village on ...
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Bayeux Tapestry: A 1,000-year-old embroidery depicting William the Conqueror's victory and King Harold's grisly death
What it tells us about the past: This tapestry was first recorded in 1476 as part of the inventory of the Bayeux Cathedral, ...
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Is this toilet the ultimate Anglo-Saxon status symbol? Inside Harold II’s ‘ensuite’
Presenting fresh archaeological evidence, Dr Duncan Wright shares how a team of experts might have found the lost living ...
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Bayeux Tapestry Museum
Well, because the Bayeux Tapestry, an astonishingly long and beautifully made work of art, chronicles the 1066 Battle of Hastings. The approximately 230-foot-long tapestry is displayed in a dark ...
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7 things you didn't know about the Bayeux Tapestry
The famous Bayeux Tapestry, however, is an embroidery made from sheets of linen, with pictures added using individual stitches. It would have taken at least 45kg of wool, using ten colours made ...
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Archaeologists uncover ‘lost’ home depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
“The Bayeux Tapestry is integral to the way everyone ... to read about a place and see images of it in sources from the time, and to be able to pinpoint and reconstruct something of it now ...