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While the excavations and archaeological report were a planning condition for the refurbishment of the house, the owners additionally funded other private digs throughout the lands in the years leading up to the excavation of the passage tomb. The German government have also funded various other digs
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Pidgeon, finally died only in 2011 whereupon the property was put up for sale by the executor.
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In July 2018 it was announced that a megalithic passage tomb had been rediscovered directly underneath the house during renovations of the house and gardens.
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The original main dining room of the house has some of the finest and most elaborate stucco work in
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