CREMS Seminar: Reading Historic Objects: the Archaeology of Henry VII and Elizabeth York's Rediscovered Furniture.

In 2010, the remaining parts of an elaborate and puzzling bed were bought at auction. In 2014 four matching, salvaged wainscot posts with royal ciphers of 'h' 'R' and a similar fleur-de-lys de lys were independently discovered. Research clearly shows the bed's imagery purports to be the marriage bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, in specifically fifteenth-century terms. The posts show marks typical of that era. But what did a range of analyses tell us about them?