Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Wednesday 24 August 2022

Uncovering more of Hyde Abbey


The loss of the vast majority of Hyde Abbey on the north side of the medieval city in Winchester is not only a loss to the heritage of that historic city but to the country as a whole as the abbey was the burial place of King Alfred and his immediate family.
 
All that survives above ground today is the associated medieval parish church and some outbuildings of the monastic site.

In 2014 a fragment of a pelvis found on the site was tentatively assigned to either King Alfred or his son King Edward the Elder as reported by the BBC News at Bone fragment 'could be King Alfred'

The latest excavation at Hyde has revealed something of the water supply system that channeled under the buildings.

The community focussed dig is described on the BBC News website at Tunnel found at Alfred the Great's resting place



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