Treasure Beaches Report: Pt. 2. (2020 and Beyond). : 12/8/23 Report - Group of Amateurs Start With Folklore To Find Lost Palace. Artifacts of the Mary Rose. Maltese Cross.

Friday, December 8, 2023

12/8/23 Report - Group of Amateurs Start With Folklore To Find Lost Palace. Artifacts of the Mary Rose. Maltese Cross.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

When a group of amateur archaeologists set out to find the buried remains of a Tudor palace in their Northamtonshire village five years ago, they knew the odds were against them.

“Many of us were brought up in the village, and you hear about this lost palace, and wonder whether it’s a myth or real. So we just wanted to find it,” said Chris Close, the chair of the Collyweston Historical and Preservation Society (Chaps) which made the discovery of the Palace of Collyweston in a back garden this year.

“But we’re a bunch of amateurs. We had no money, no expertise, no plans, no artist impressions to go off, and nothing remaining of the palace. It’s naivety and just hard work that has led us to it.”...

“We’ve done it all on an absolute shoestring,” said Close. “We’ve basically done an £80,000-£90,000 project for roughly £13,000. For us, being a little society, to have achieved this with no money, or expertise, or plans, I think it’s something that the whole society should be proud of.”

Here is that link.

Village’s amateur archaeologists find lost Tudor palace in back garden | Northamptonshire | The Guardian

Also History fans find Collyweston royal palace 'against all odds' (bbc.com)

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I found an old but very good article showing a variety of artifacts from the wreck of the Mary Rose.

Cross Fused To Two Rings From the Wreck of the ary Rose.

The Maltese Cross formally adopted by the Knights Hospitallers of St. John in 1126, stylistically owes its origins to the crosses used in the crusades, when it was identified as the symbol of the “Christian warrior”: Its eight points denote the eight obligations or aspirations of the knights, namely “to live in truth, have faith, repent one’s sins, give proof of humility, love justice, be merciful, be sincere and wholehearted, and to endure persecution”.

With time, the eight points also came to represent the eight langues (or “tongues”, but in effect national groupings) of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order, namely those of Auvergne, Provence, France, Aragon, Castille and Portugal, Italy, Baviere (Germany), and England (with Scotland and Ireland)...

See The Maltese Cross: Its origin and importance to Malta (maltauncovered.com) for more about that.