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A Palace Sold for Scrap
Rycote, Oxfordshire
11 February 2001
Finds and photo gallery
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These two prints of Rycote show the great house at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th.
The third drawing of Rycote.
The position of the tower.
The position of the palace.
The position of Trench 3 and the culvert.
The surviving south-east tower of the Tudor great house.
Geophysics gets to work under the trees.
Tony Robinson, Robin Bush and palaces expert Simon Thurley.
Uncovering the foundations of the great house's front door.
Trench 1, where Phil uncovers an arched culvert dating from when the Tudor moat was filled in.
Introducing 'Traycam', a Heath Robinson-style contraption that was sent in to film the inside of the culvert ...
... but sank on its maiden voyage.
So after Traycam comes
'Bowlcam' ...
... which did rather better.
Finely decorated glass from the old house.
Inside the culvert.
Rycote reconstructed by Raysan.
The cameo producing a Tudor banquet for the programme is authentic in every detail ...
... apart from the blender.
A fireplace removed and sold from the old house now resides in another property nearby.
The fine mouldings of the fireplace.
The old stable block is one of the few remaining structures of the original Tudor mansion.
Rycote chapel, which was built to serve the great house, is now owned by English Heritage.
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