Time Team Excavation Site Syon House (Brentford)

United Kingdom / England / Northfleet / Brentford
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The team went on the trail of a medieval mystery.

This is Syon house, one of the most lavish stately homes in the country, owned by the Dukes of Northumberland, and somewhere underneath this beautiful parkland lies the remains of an enormous and equally lavish monastery.

Founded by Henry the Fifth, Syon Abbey, home to an obscure order of Swedish nuns, became one of the wealthiest and most powerful religious establishments in Medieval England. A hotbed of political intrigue and descent then, although it survived Henry the Eighth's dissolution, shortly afterwards the buildings just vanished.

Everything, even its internationally famous library, seems to have disappeared. All we know is that whatever remains of this once fabulous establishment lies hidden somewhere under here, and the team just had three days to find it.
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Coordinates:   51°28'36"N   -0°18'35"E

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