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Tango01 | 09 Apr 2016 11:38 a.m. PST |
… attraction to raise money. "Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset, England, is the legendary resting place of King Arthur and Guinevere, and for centuries people have visited to see the grave of the mythical fifth-century King of the Britons and his bride. But the reality behind the abbey's claim to fame had little to do with early monarchy. It was mostly about economics. Archaeology magazine's Jason Urbanus reports on new findings from University of Reading archaeologist Roberta Gilchrist, who heads up the Glastonbury Archaeological Archive Project, an intensive reexamination of 75 years' worth of excavations and discoveries from Glastonbury Abbey, many of which have been stored for decades without any scientific analysis. Gilchrist and her colleagues have found evidence that occupation of the Glastonbury site may indeed date back to the purported year of Arthur's reign in the fifth century, but not due to any mystical connection with the king. We know for certain that Glastonbury was a thriving community in the seventh century, where Saxon villagers created large furnaces to melt down and recycle Roman glass. Gilchrist's project has confirmed that the glassworks predated the abbey, possibly by centuries, and was one of the largest glass production facilities in England at the time…" Full text here link Amicalement Armand |
darthfozzywig | 09 Apr 2016 12:08 p.m. PST |
Probably put at 17% hotel tax to gouge those tourists, too. |
sgt Dutch | 09 Apr 2016 12:41 p.m. PST |
LMAO Darthfozzywig. The government must have its piece of the pie |
Tango01 | 10 Apr 2016 12:51 p.m. PST |
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Roderick Robertson | 11 Apr 2016 9:15 a.m. PST |
Old, old news. Next: "Researchers discover Water is Wet". |
bilsonius | 11 Apr 2016 11:31 p.m. PST |
Revealed: "Monks laundered Profits through Offshore Tax Havens!" |
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