DIGGING UP HISTORY
The excavations at Whalley Abbey, , in Lancashire (England), which have lasted four years, have now • been i completed, and have thrown new light ! on the great fourteenth-century ruin. . The plan of the abbey which has been accepted for centuries has had to be , redrawn, as the buildings are much ■ more extensive than was supposed. . The local tradition that the Roundheads blew up the abbey with gunpowder has been supported by the discovery of blackened stonework by the north wall. Tiled pavements and the Abbot's Hall have been discovered. No trace has been found of the treasure - of gold and silver goblets, chalices, and 1 plate believed to have been buried by ; the monks in the grounds at the time i of the Dissolution. Only one part of r the abbey remains unexplored, the ole . lawn between the cloisters and the . abbot's house. Although there is no . record of its ever having been built - on, when the turf was lifted in several ; places the foundations and the remains of walls were uncovered.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 146, 23 June 1938, Page 5
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174DIGGING UP HISTORY Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 146, 23 June 1938, Page 5
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