New Place dig to go ahead.

I see archaeologists are due to start digging at New Place here in good old Stratford in an effort to er...see what they can find. All very exciting because New Place (so they say) is where Shakespeare took his final breath. The building itself was actually demolished in 17 something by, so I heard, by the mad Vicar who used to live there, a one Rev Gastrell. I heard that he was so fed up with people (early tourists?) coming to have a look at where William died that he burnt the house down in a fury, but don't take my word for it, history was never my strong point.
Anyway, the diggers are on the look out for the foundations of the house and rubbish pits, which I would have thought would contain some pretty amazing compost by now. And wouldn't it be great if they found Shakespeare's skeleton pen in hand in the throes of a new play? Or...in the process of signing a confession admitting that it was Edward de Vere wot writ the plays. (Not so ridiculous because as I have said many times before, he ain't in the grave at Holy Trinity. (I was once told by someone in the know that there was nothing in Shakespeare's so-called Tomb at Holy Trinity Church).
Check out the facts regarding the dig HERE