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The most attention-grabbing find was a manuscript from the 15th century, which National Trust curator Anna Forrest believes was half of a transportable prayer e-book that can have belonged to Sir Edmund Bedingfeld, the builder of Oxburgh Hall.
Oxburgh Hall is a moated house that belonged to the Bedingfeld family, and it is now a vacationer attraction.
Curator, Anna Forrest, holds up one of the discoveries from under the floorboards
Credit: From Mike Hodgson/National Trust
“We had hoped to learn more of the history of the house during the reroofing work and have commissioned paint analysis, wallpaper research, and building and historic graffiti recording,” Russell Clement, regular supervisor at Oxburgh Hall, talked about. “But these finds are far beyond anything we expected to see.”
Building is ‘giving up its secrets and techniques and methods’
Champion meticulously carried out a “fingertip search” through the particles, and he found a treasure trove of artifacts in two large, historic rat’s nests. One of the rat’s nests was full of over 200 gadgets of textile, fragments of early music, gadgets from early printed pages and handwritten paperwork.
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“These objects contain so many clues which confirm the history of the house as the retreat of a devout Catholic family, who retained their faith across the centuries,” Clement talked about. “We will be telling the story of the family and these finds in the house, now we have reopened again following lockdown.
“This is a developing which is giving up its secrets and techniques and methods slowly. We have no idea what else we’d come all through — or what might keep hidden for future generations to reveal.”
Oxburgh Hall is currently undergoing a nearly $8 million restoration and repair program that was initiated in 2016 to repair the roof. All the remaining debris has been removed and bagged in order to be cataloged in the future.
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