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It's #FindsFriday time with week six of our #DebrisDiary. A few interesting finds have emerged out of the dust this week, thanks to the eagle eyes of our volunteers and staff. @NatTrustArch 📷Nicholas Farka 
First up we have this curious bell, found under the floorboards of what would have been servant accommodation. Maybe it was part of Oxburgh’s staff bell system. It is metal and the button still moves when pressed…although we doubt anyone is receiving anything now.
Next up we have this delicate little black ribbon and a collection of beads and buttons. Which add to the narrative that these attic spaces were being used as a sewing room. One or two have nice big windows so maybe the abundance of light made it the perfect needlework space.
It's that time again...#FindsFriday! It is week five of our #DebrisDiary as sifting continues, and volunteers have been focusing on bags of debris from the attics which run east from the gatehouse. These attics have an intriguing history.
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Tree-ring dating of timbers in this area indicates that they were felled between 1551 and 1579. This period of Elizabeth I’s reign was particularly dangerous for Catholics like the Bedingfelds; not the most obvious time for them to have been investing in home improvements.
It has long been suggested that there was a secret chapel in the house, so perhaps this phase of work relates to the covert creation of a discreet place of worship on the top floor of the house. One which was quick dash away from the priest hole. 📷RedZebra
Good morning on this lovely #FindsFriday! It is week four of our #DebrisDiary as we continue to sift through the rubble taken from beneath the attic floors. @NatTrustArch
First up is a bit of an odd find; a chocolate wrapper of some sort. Last year we actually found a mostly complete (sans chocolate) Terry’s Gold Leaf box hidden beneath the floorboards. We wonder if this wrapper may have come from that!
Dating from the 1940s and produced under the rationing restrictions of WW2, perhaps these chocolates were ‘contraband’. Clearly whoever ate them didn’t want anyone else to know about them so hid the evidence. Photo by @mjc_associates
#DebrisDiary time! Week three of sifting debris from beneath the attic floors has revealed some items which differ from those previously found by volunteers working on this project. @NatTrustArch
A delicate glass button, which survived intact despite being both being dropped and hoovered up, was a lovely clean, clear contrast to the brown dust it was found in.
A volunteer also found a tiny piece of gilded, carved wood which could have dropped from a picture frame or piece of furniture.
#DebrisDiary time! Week two of sifting debris from beneath the attic floors has turned up some more interesting items for #FindsFriday. So what did we find between 1st and 4th August?
@NatTrustArch
@NatTrustArch
This week's debris were taken from the Wallpaper and Tank Attics, the finds found in each room are quite different. This tray shows a typical selection of small objects found in one sifting session from the Wallpaper Attic, which give us an impression of how that room was used.
We have found pins, lead shot, textiles, lovely coloured-glass beads, and some tiny pieces of newspaper, printed books and hand-written documents. We don’t currently have a date for the beads, but we still find ourselves trying to imagine the dresses they might have adorned.
