A few weeks back I was lucky enough to get the chance to volunteer with a friend of mine who is a buildings archaeologist. One of the projects she's been working on is Hampton Court Palace, surveying and recording an apartment. I went along for a few days to help, and got to crawl in the roof space, and pull up the floor boards. It was so interesting to see behind the scenes of somewhere so well known, and also get to see the framework of the building. Here are some of the photographs from my visit:
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| Up in the roof space above the apartment |
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| Balancing on the beams to measure the roof space. |
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| Taking the floor boards up to measure the beams underneath |
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| Up on the roof of Hampton Court. |
It was great to be back at Hampton Court Palace, I feel very lucky as during my Masters degree I also got to dig there. We were working on the Orangery excavating parts of Wolsey's Palace. It was such a great place to work, and we even had Royalty visit us!
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| The excavation viewed from the roof |
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| One of the stone mouldings excavated |
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| The excavation |
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| Prince Charles visits the site |
