History enthusiasts are using advanced technology to explore the possibility of hidden underground tunnels beneath Guy's Cliffe, a historic house in Warwickshire.
History sleuths are using high-tech kit to probe a mythical house thought to have secret underground tunnels dating back hundreds of years. Guy’s Cliffe in Warwickshire , where the recorded history began in the 5th Century, is one of the country’s most fascinating and mystifying buildings.
Owned by the Freemasons, the partially ruined manor and grounds beside the River Avon are said to contain the final resting place of Guy of Warwick, a knight fabled to have seen out his days as a cave-dwelling hermit. Mounds of earth under the buildings — probably the oldest masonic meeting venue in the world — are thought to hide tunnels, chambers and rooms which have been buried over the years. The top of an arch can be seen at the head of one escarpment underneath the austere stone facework of the manor, suggesting that it was once the entrance to an entire forgotten level. ‘Multiple unexplained voids’ have also been detected in a courtyard which would once have been the entrance for the wealthy Greathead family. Custodian Adrian King spoke to Metro ahead of teams from two technology companies revisiting the landmark on the outskirts of Warwick to continue scanning beyond the stone and soil. ‘I can only speculate as to where the tunnels lead to,’ he said. ‘If there was a series of castles, or strongholds, perhaps they were interconnected. It could have been that they were useful as way out, perhaps in case a siege had occurred around the town and that could have been Guy’s Cliffe’s route to and from the town in that respect.’ The romantic buildings lie on a sandstone outcrop that has scientific interest dating back to the Triassic era around 200 million years ago when the first dinosaurs roamed Earth
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