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Yeavering Archive: Plan of the Excavated Theatre

This plan taken from Hope-Taylor's volume on Yeavering clearly shows the fire-reddened area where a fire was deliberately started, probably in 633 AD. Hope-Taylor's interpretation was that brushwood had been placed against the base of the structure and lit so that the wind would fan the flames.

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