Story by Jennifer Pinto – 2nd Feb 2025 GB news
Archaelogists have made the historical discovery of the lost residence of the last Anglo-Saxon King of England who was killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066… Bosham, in West Sussex, is shown twice in the Bayeux Tapestry which shows the king being killed by a Norman knight and the defeat of Harold Godwinson’s army.
Dr Duncan Wright, senior lecturer in Medieval Archaeology at Newcastle University, who led the study, said: “The realisation that the 2006 excavations had found, in effect, an Anglo-Saxon en-suite confirmed to us that this house sits on the site of an elite residence pre-dating the Norman Conquest…
He added: “A latrine was the killer clue to find what was, essentially, the palace of King Harold. That was surprising, but an en-suite bathroom would have been found only among the highest elites. “The latrine was not pictured in the Bayeux Tapestry, of course, but it would have been just up the stairs from the banqueting hall within a private chamber… These wood-lined pits can be found easily as they are often still green in colour and can even still smell really bad all these centuries later.”
The loo tells the tale
That leads to wealth and fame
Long gone;
All that is left of it
Now are some pits,
and the pong.
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