One of the joys of the Current Archaeology archive is its ‘tales of the unexpected’. After last month’s column on early medieval…
Carenza Lewis, Preceptor in Archaeology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Team member of Channel 4’s Time Team tells us of going…
![Hampton Court Palace and the Privy Garden as seen from the top of an extending ladder. The original bedding trenches have here been re-excavated. Note the original palace of Henry VIII to the left of the Wren building [Photo Credit: Northamptonshire Archaeology]](https://archaeology.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/1994/09/ca140-8web-300x193.jpg)
On the night of 31 March 1986, Hampton Court Palace caught fire. The great state apartments, built by Wren, were ravaged, but…