House tied to Isaac Newton near his gravity apple tree found

British archaeologists recently found the remnants of a 17th-century house where Isaac Newton’s mother lived – not far from the site of his famous apple tree.

The National Trust announced in a recent press release that it had found a trove of everyday objects from the site of his mother’s former house near Woolsthorpe Manor, an estate-turned-museum near Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Isaac Newton was born and raised at Woolsthorpe Manor. In 1665, he left Cambridge University during the Great Plague, and legend holds that he developed his theory of gravity thanks to a tree on the property.

Though he and his mother lived on the same property, they didn’t live under the same roof. After his father died, Newton’s mother, Hannah Ayscough, left him to be raised by his grandparents when she married