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Old 13-01-2015, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by janwhin View Post
English Heritage, Pastscape, makes reference to human bones having been found there, that a grave slab forms the threshold of a door leading from the courtyard into a stable and a portion of a stone coffin is used in one of the windows. They also refer to the opencast destroying an earthwork moat and a pond.

I wonder if the Widdringtons dug up the stone coffins laying the foundations of the Dower house.? Probably contained the remains of some Hospitaller that personally knew Saladin and died after just coming back from Jerusalem. - -hey, we can use our imagination.
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