GBNews reported yesterday the findings of an archaeological investigation at Bosham, on the shore of Chichester Harbour in West Sussex, which appears to have revealed conclusively the site of the house occupied for in the mid-eleventh century by Earl Harold Godwinson. According to the BayeuxTapestry, which depicts and names the house at Bosham, this was where the Earl spent time before his fateful journey to Normandy and his meeting with Duke William II. That resulted in his oath to support the claim of the Duke to succeed King Edward the Confessor as English monarch.
The identification of a late Anglo-Saxon aristocratic house would be very unusual in itself, but the fact that belonged to a figure as important as the future King Harold II makes this an extremely significant discovery indeed.
The GBNews report can be seen at Bayeux Tapestry mystery: Lost site depicted in medieval embroidery revealed after 900 years
That is a press release from Newcastle University, the base for some of the academics who, together with others from Exeter, carried out the research, which adds more specific detail to the account at Archaeologists find ‘lost’ site depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
Wikipedia has an account of Bosham, and the significant Anglo-Saxon work in the church at Bosham
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