Power seats
The Bayeux tapestry, which shows King Harold riding Bosham, where he attends the church and parties in a hall, before leaving for France.
The London antiquarium society
The Bayeux tapestry, which shows King Harold riding Bosham, where he attends the church and parties in a hall, before leaving for France.
The London antiquarium society
Part of the garden ruin in Bosham, confirmed as a medieval building for recent research.
Newcastle University
Part of the garden ruin in Bosham, confirmed as a medieval building for recent research.
Newcastle University
Holy Trinity Church, Bosham, looking east.
Newcastle University
Holy Trinity Church, Bosham, looking east.
Newcastle University
Part of the garden ruin in Bosham, confirmed as a medieval building for recent research.
Newcastle University
Holy Trinity Church, Bosham, looking east.
Newcastle University
According to Creighton and its co -authors, there have been many research on castles, which dominated aristocratic sites in England after the Norman conquest. That event “persists as a deep schism that is still seen as he Moment of the basin after which the elites finally took advantage of the European current of the construction of the castle, “they wrote. The study of residences (or” stately enclaves “) has been more peripheral, but the authors argue that up to 1066, aristocrats and rulers such as King Harold invested strongly in residences, often located with churches and chapels.
The “WHERE POWER Lies” project used a wide range of research methodology, including reading maps and old records, a larger excavations, geophysics, soil penetration radar (GPR) and photogrammatic modeling, to define the firms of Such such enclaves and assign them in a single geographic information database (GIS). The project has identified seven of these “stately centers”, two of which are discussed in the current article: an early medieval enclosure in Hornby in North Yorkshire and Bosham in West Sussex.
For a long time it is suspected that a particularly manifested house in Bosham (now a private residence) is at the site of what was once the residence of King Harold. According to the authors, the original residence was clearly connected to the Church of the Holy Trinity just south, of which they date back to the eleventh century, as evidenced by the remains of the folding of what was once a bridge or road. More evidence can be found in a structure known as the “ruin of the garden”, little survives on the ground, and even that was very covered with weeds. GPR data showed buried features that would have been the eastern wall of the state of King Harold.
The biggest track was the discovery in 2006 of a latrine within the remains of a large wooden building. Its importance was not recognized at that time, but since then archaeologists have determined that high status houses began to integrate latrines into the 10th century, so the structure was probably part of King Harold’s residence. The co -author Duncan Wright of the University of Newcastle believes that this “Anglo -Saxon suite in the suite”, along with all the other tests, demonstrates “beyond any reasonable doubt that we have here the location of the private power center of Harold Godwinson, the Famous represented in the Bayeux Tapestry. “
Doi: The Antiquaries Journal, 2025. 10.1017/S0003581524000350 (About Dois).