British amateur archaeologists have found a lost Tudor palace in a country garden

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Researchers made a plan to search for the palace back in March 2018. They used “local lore and rumours” to pinpoint the dig site.

Photo: Collyveston Society for Historic Preservation

Chaps has more than 80 members: these are both teenagers and people in their mature age (70-80 years old).

“Many of us grew up in villages, so we heard about this lost palace and wondered if it was a myth or reality. So we just wanted to find it.” said Chris Close, chairman of the Collyveston Historic Preservation Society.

But since the Chaps are a group of amateurs, they had no money, no expertise, no plans to help find the remains of the palace.

“Naivety and hard work led us to this” – say members of the society.

Several attempts were made to locate the palace in the 1980s and 1990s, but without the benefit of modern technology, none were successful.

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The excavation site was discovered with the help of geophysical research and the use of ground-penetrating radar

Now, amateur archaeologists have conducted geophysical research using ground-penetrating radar. This helped clarify where the palace walls are located. Then they got permission from the owners of the houses to dig in the gardens.

Historians from the University of York helped to identify the palace from the stone moldings they found and joined the excavations to uncover the building and preserve it for the future.

It will be recalled that five rare axes, which may be 3 thousand years old, were found in the forests of Poland.

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