Another lovely outdoor yoga class in #Clarecastle - perfect antidote to day spent staring at a computer willing words to appear on the screen 🍃🧘‍♀️ #WritingWednesdays

#PhilippaOfClarence inherited #ClareCastle in Suffolk, with its gardens laid out by her stylish great-grandmother Elizabeth de Burgh, #LadyOfClare. She also inherited #Usk, & it was among those title deeds that her husband's Mortimer family preserved a transcription of Elizabeth's furious indictment of tyranny, dictated in secret in 1326 & rediscovered in the 1950s. She had 4 children by age 21, & died not long after: her descendants include the #HouseOfYork. 🧵 3/
#GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII

The newly-discovered ships were built in the lifetime of the #LadyOfClare. Household accounts from #ClareCastle in #Suffolk record purchase of fish from Iceland, candlewax from Lübeck, & wine from the Rhine.

When we republished her biography, #ForHerGoodEstate, our map showed the barrels arriving from Northern Europe...

on a ship like the C13th Bossholmen cog, here drawn by Jon Adams & photographed by Kester Keighley:
https://cma.soton.ac.uk/when-is-a-cog-not-a-cog/

#ShipType #ShipConstruction #MaritimeArchaeology