{"id":8962,"date":"2021-07-16T11:08:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T10:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8962"},"modified":"2021-07-16T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T10:08:52","slug":"saxon-caves-found-at-burton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2021\/07\/16\/saxon-caves-found-at-burton\/","title":{"rendered":"Saxon caves found at Burton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A near-complete Anglo-Saxon dwelling and oratory has been discovered, believed to date from the early ninth century&#8221; and located a few miles from Burton-upon-Trent. &#8220;The caves had long been considered to be 18th-century follies&#8221;, but <a href=\"https:\/\/anglotopia.net\/british-history\/anglo-saxon\/archaeologists-identify-ninth-century-anglo-saxon-cave-house-in-derbyshire\/\">a detailed new study<\/a> by the Royal Agricultural University and Wessex Archaeology shows them to be much earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/caves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/caves.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8963\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PDF is not yet online but the abstract has&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; Saint Hardulph, a deposed Northumbrian king who seemingly retired as a hermit at this site. The fabric of the cave itself has [long been assumed to be 18th and 19th century, re:] nearby Foremarke Hall. Analysis shows that such a late origin for the structures is very unlikely, and that modifications in the 18th or 19th century were on a small-scale and saw no significant enlargement&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A near-complete Anglo-Saxon dwelling and oratory has been discovered, believed to date from the early ninth century&#8221; and located a few miles from Burton-upon-Trent. &#8220;The caves had long been considered to be 18th-century follies&#8221;, but a detailed new study by the Royal Agricultural University and Wessex Archaeology shows them to be much earlier. The PDF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}