Plans to excavate Tudor fortress built by Henry V111 buried in Yorkshire car park

Project manager Ken SteedmanProject manager Ken Steedman
Project manager Ken Steedman
For years it has been buried under a coach park. But now archaeologists are hoping a riverside fortress built for Henry V111 could become a visitor attraction.

Trenches will start being dug next month to discover more about the site of the South Blockhouse next to the Deep aquarium.

Built in 1541-43 to guard the mouth of the river Hull, then a port, from hostile ships, the fortress was later a prison and finally demolished in the 1860s.

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