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SUMMARY:Clavering Castle excavations – June 2025: from Anglo-Saxon stron
 ghold to destruction on the orders of Henry VIII - Simon Coxall
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DESCRIPTION:Scholars suggest the scheduled site of Clavering Castle in NW 
 Essex features in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle as a refuge for Norman knights
  fleeing the conflicts surrounding Edward the Confessor’s court in c1052
 AD. The seat of the powerful Fitzwymarch family\, the monks of Waltham cla
 im it as the scene of the ‘Miracle of the Ring’ that greeted Edward th
 e Confessor’s foundation of its chapel. Inherited by the De Clavering an
 d Neville families\, Clavering provided these powerful northern lords with
  an important residential foothold in the south. Ultimately it was held an
 d refurbished by Margaret Pole\, Countess of Salisbury\, herself a Neville
  and niece to kings Edward IV and Richard III\, until in 1541 aged 67 year
 s she was executed in the Tower by Henry VIII.\n\nNew historical research 
 combined with recent extensive non-invasive geophysical and landscape surv
 eying\, has revealed many of Clavering Castle’s surviving features still
  hidden below ground\, its medieval water management systems\, together wi
 th facets of its spiritual relevance to the lords and ladies that held thi
 s ancestral seat of old England. In my talk I shall be introducing both th
 e findings of this preparatory work\, and presenting the evidence recovere
 d from the first ever excavation of this enigmatic site that took place in
  June 2025.
LOCATION:Law Faculty\, 10 West Road\, Cambridge CB3 9DZ
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