Gate May Mark Site of 17th Century Home Destroyed by Royalists

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND—Pipeline work along the River Trent in the East Midlands uncovered two stone walls, positioned adjacent to the Kelham Road, that are angled to lead away from it. The structures may have been part of a gateway to a large house that was possibly demolished sometime between 1644 and 1666. “The theory is that the house was demolished by Royalists during the Civil War to remove any cover for attacking forces,” Karen Nichols of Wessex Archaeology told Culture 24. The house and its gate do not appear on any eighteenth century maps. The team also recovered pottery, tiles, and tobacco pipe fragments dating to the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries, and a Neolithic arrowhead.