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You Can Apply to be a Landlord-King of The English Island of PielLooking to be a landowner? Or perhaps, royalty? How about both, for a whole island?The Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council has opened applications for the next landlord of Piel Island. On April 2022, the winning applicant will be given a 10-year lease to this 50 acres of land—with wildlife, a fortress and an historic pub—half a mile off of northwest England.As part of the deal, the landlord, also crowned as 'King of Piel', will run The Ship Inn pub and maintain parts of the island. According to the tradition of the king and knights of Piel, each new landlord is crowned “King of Piel” in a ceremony (of uncertain origin), where they sit in an ancient chair wearing a helmet and holding a sword while someone pours alcohol over their head.If you fancy a visit instead, a ferry runs from Roa Island between April and September. Its interesting history from centuries past, as well as its local environment, is worth a trip!#PielIsland #king #monarchy #pub #England #landlord

Ninth Century Anglo-Saxon Cave House May Have Once Been Home to a KingForget castles, now this is a cave fit for a king!New research by experts from the Royal Agricultural University and Wessex Archaeology suggests that a medieval cave structure in Derbyshire, England, may actually be a home of Eardwulf, an exiled ruler of the medival English kingdom of Northumbria.The cave, cut out of the soft sandstone rock, used to be considered to be an 18th century folly, but new dating demonstrated that it was far older - more likely from the 9th century instead.“Using detailed measurements, a drone survey, and a study of architectural details, it was possible to reconstruct the original plan of three rooms and easterly facing oratory, or chapel, with three apses,” said researcher Edmund Simons in a statement.“The architectural similarities with Saxon buildings, and the documented association with Hardulph/Eardwulf, make a convincing case that these caves were constructed, or enlarged, to house the exiled king.”“It was not unusual for deposed or retired royalty to take up a take up a religious life during this period, gaining sanctity and in some cases canonisation. Living in a cave as a hermit would have been one way this could have been achieved.”Image: Wessex Archaeology#cave #Eardwulf #king #archaeology #AngloSaxon