Mercian Archaeological Services CIC via The Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project seek not only to research and understand the site, but to do so with the community, and to raise the profile of the site so that it is once again recognised as the Heart of Medieval Sherwood Forest, around the world! The palace was sat at the heart of medieval Sherwood Forest and provided amenities for hunting, royal retreat, and the entertaining of foreign royalty and important members of society, with Richard I having once met William the Lion King of Scotland there…
Mercian Driector Andy Gaunt’s past work has also interpreted the surrounding lordship as a ‘designed’ medieval romantic hunting landscape similar to those depicted in contemporary poems such as Gawain and the Green Knight. Recent Archaeological work - much of it by Mercian Archaeological Services CIC - has helped to reveal the size and importance of the site. The Palace was visited by all 8 kings from Henry II to Richard II, with King John possibly holding parliament there in the early 13th century and Edward I holding Parliament there in 1290.
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