Peter Black and the Mystery of the Hidden Castle

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It is also the furthest back in time that we have cast our net, being set in the s — roughly the year … around tea-time. But the biggest difference has been that all the projects we have embarked on in the Castle series were already happening before we got there. In our previous adventures we have been blessed with some magnificent locations — such as Manor Farm in Hampshire, Morwellham Quay in Devon and Acton Scott in Shropshire — but most of the projects we undertook to recreate the life of the era were devised and undertaken by the production team and presenters.

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The workforce exhibits a close-knit camaraderie all too rare in a 21st century workplace. Stonemason Jean-Paul Masseron and a student carpenter gaining work experience.

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Hardening metal the medieval way. From carpenters to blacksmiths to masons to stonemasons and back to carpenters. You must enable JavaScript to play content. The workforce here also make their own paint, mortar, pots. Craven's house - but getting locked up in rat-infested cellars and in secret storerooms of stolen goods is not James's idea of fun.

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Unlike many other Cistercian foundations which typically sought out wilderness and isolation, Bective was positioned on superb agricultural land, and quickly rose to prominence as an important ecclesiastical centre. Please select your reason for reporting The site is located in a field full of livestock pretty lively bullocks when we visited on 1 July so be sure to wear adequate footwear and please close any gates behind you. Peter Black and his brothers find themselves plunged into mystery once again as they become aware of a shady computer club which is operating in their own school. Even Peter hopes to have a good break from the combined pressures of school work and his crime-solving activities. Twelve-year-old Peter and his brother James decide to investigate when they suspect that their neighbour, Mr. How I Spend My Money:

Peter has a sharp enough mind, however, to make all the right connections and enlist the help of their school teachers as well. There are dreams, ghosts, magic, technology and mystery to assist the brothers - but will James's ridiculous sense of humour and comical rapport with Peter be a help or a hindrance to their case? The Black brothers thought they were going to have a break from crime-solving but it seems there is something very unusual happening within their own school.

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The computer club was supposed to be a useful and friendly group but it appears that some dark forces are at work - and their younger brother Rowan is already mixed up with it. Following a trail of unexpected explosions and some very confused school friends, the brothers hope to learn exactly what is behind all the trouble Peter Black and the Mystery of the Hidden Castle. By the sixteenth century, the Cistercians of Bective Abey had become wealthy from rents, tithes and donations.

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The Abbey and its possessions were purchased in by Andrew Wyse, but he seems to have come into financial difficulties soon after and Bective changed hands a number of times, before becoming transformed into a manor in the early seventeenth century. It came into the hands of the Bolton family, and was eventually donated to the State in The extensive ruins that you can explore today at Bective tell the story of both the Cistercian monastic site and the private home.

The cloisters are superbly well preserved, and you may recognise them featuring in the Mel Gibson film Braveheart.

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It is free to enter all year round and is very easy to find, as it is well signposted from the R between Trim and Navan in County Meath. The Office of Public Works have installed a small carpark and path at the site so it is very accessible. The have been a series of excavations conducted at Bective Abbey by Geraldine and Matthew Stout, and you can read all about their fantastic discoveries on their blog here which also gives you a nice insight into the on-site life of an archaeologist in Ireland.

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