Lowe and Behold Traditional Cache
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This cache is placed near to the ancient monument of Saxons' Lowe.
Is Saxons' Lowe - or should that be Saxon's Lowe - a prehistoric round barrow? Or maybe it's the grave of a Saxon King from the nearby Bury Bank? Or is it just a natural bump (mind you, it is scheduled as an ancient monument).
An investigation of the mound in 1860 discovered at its base a heap of stones, some bits of charcoal and fragments of bone. Unfortunately these were not preserved, being dismissed at the time as of little consequence.
Bury Bank, which lies just half a mile to the south east is reputed to have been the palace of Wulfere, who governed Mercia from AD 658 to 676 – could it be this Saxon King who lies buried under the mound.
The 1899 O.S. map names the whole earthwork as “Wulferecester”, or Wulfere's town. If this was the case, he might well have taken over an existing earthwork constructed maybe a thousand years earlier, adapting it for his own use.
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