A Palace Sold for Scrap
Rycote, Oxfordshire
11 February 2001
VR gallery

If you don't already have it installed on your computer, you will need a simple free QuickTime download from www.apple.com/quicktime to run these VRs. The minimum version required is 3, although 5 is better. Once installed, clicking on any of the links below should start the VR after a short downloading delay. Each VR provides a 360-degree panoramic view of different aspects of the excavation, enabling you to zoom in or out and explore the site from different angles.

Panoramic VR 1:

The old stables block at Rycote Park. Its size gives an indication of how large the great Tudor house at Rycote would have been.

Panoramic VR 2:

Gardens are now laid out where part of the great house once stood. The surviving south-east tower is a grand garden feature.

Panoramic VR 3:

Rycote chapel.

Panoramic VR 4:

Most of the structures found in Trench 2 related to the later Georgian rebuilding of the house, but a narrow slot was dug which eventually located the Tudor back wall.

Panoramic VR 5:

Trench 4, where the Team was looking for the entrance to the great banqueting hall.

Panoramic VR 6:

Trench 5 was opened on what would have been the west side of the old house, where the geophysics surveys had also picked up signs of a moat.

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