10-08-2024, 12:36
Been through Peterborough a few times on the train and been on the periphery once or twice with work, but never into it. Take it I'm not missing much!
Although if anyone here fancies chancing their arm, not far outside of Peterborough- about 30miles give or take- king John's convoy was heading north and decided to take a short cut through the floodplains to get to their destination. Now these floodplains are proper dry land used for farming and probably houses now. But back then they were treacherous and susceptible to heavy flooding and tidal shifts. His convoy obviously didn't understand the tidal patterns and only got part way across when the tide got them. Did I mention that historical records suggest there could have been a violent storm and or heavy fog at the same time. It can't be exactly accurate, but both occured at a similar time to when he is believed to have crossed.
Anyways, whilst he was crossing, they lost a lot of luggage, people and probably horses, some of the luggage lost were coins and other more luxurious items a king would have, one of the boxes however was supposedly housing the old crown jewels and has never been found since...
It is believed that somewhere within an area of the dried up wash, so really between Peterborough and the wash itself, and east Anglia and Lincolnshire going t'other way, is a box underneath a few hundred years of sediment, with an old gold crown with old jewels etc. value is priceless, the British museum/national history museum are thought to be willing to pay 100's of millions in finders fee alone for just the crown.
If anyone has a few hours before kickoff and has a shovel or gone down on a JCB!
As an aside, king John died of dysentry weeks to a few months after. So if anyone does seriously have interest in it, then there is a rough time frame and approximate area. People have looked and are looking, it's featured on a TV show I watch too but as yet the only thing found has been coins, but they do date to that time period.
Although if anyone here fancies chancing their arm, not far outside of Peterborough- about 30miles give or take- king John's convoy was heading north and decided to take a short cut through the floodplains to get to their destination. Now these floodplains are proper dry land used for farming and probably houses now. But back then they were treacherous and susceptible to heavy flooding and tidal shifts. His convoy obviously didn't understand the tidal patterns and only got part way across when the tide got them. Did I mention that historical records suggest there could have been a violent storm and or heavy fog at the same time. It can't be exactly accurate, but both occured at a similar time to when he is believed to have crossed.
Anyways, whilst he was crossing, they lost a lot of luggage, people and probably horses, some of the luggage lost were coins and other more luxurious items a king would have, one of the boxes however was supposedly housing the old crown jewels and has never been found since...
It is believed that somewhere within an area of the dried up wash, so really between Peterborough and the wash itself, and east Anglia and Lincolnshire going t'other way, is a box underneath a few hundred years of sediment, with an old gold crown with old jewels etc. value is priceless, the British museum/national history museum are thought to be willing to pay 100's of millions in finders fee alone for just the crown.
If anyone has a few hours before kickoff and has a shovel or gone down on a JCB!
As an aside, king John died of dysentry weeks to a few months after. So if anyone does seriously have interest in it, then there is a rough time frame and approximate area. People have looked and are looking, it's featured on a TV show I watch too but as yet the only thing found has been coins, but they do date to that time period.
Another day, another door, another high, another low