February
10
/ 2023
Pock-marked with bullets that likely came from the muskets of Parliamentarian troops bound for the very first battle of the English Civil War, the remains of a medieval gatehouse have been uncovered in England. According to archaeologists digging for the HS2 high-speed rail project, this may be evidence of the action that kicked off the civil war! The Wessex Archaeology team associated with the HS2 project has recently wrapped up excavations at the historic Coleshill Manor. While the dig has produced many extraordinary treasures, including “one of the most impressive Elizabethan ornamental gardens,” the latest find of the stone bases of two towers from a fortified late medieval gatehouse that archaeologists are treating as possible evidence of the first skirmish
