Pagan Path Resurrection Traditional Cache
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Harwell, like most other villages in the area is located on the ‘springline’ at the foot of the downs; Harwell may have been inhabited for many centuries, but no one knows who first lived there. Roman coins have been found on land throughout the parish, which has been known as Harwell, enough to make it probable that there was a settlement there during Roman times. The first positive evidence that people lived and died in Harwell dates from about AD 500. By this time the people were Saxons, who buried their dead, in pagan fashion, outside of the village. Their cemetery, on the edge of the Holloway, was found about 55 years ago when foundations for a house were being dug. The dead were buried with few belongings – perhaps a brooch or an urn. Only one man, buried with his sword, seems to have been grander than the rest. Some of these remains were put on show at the Ashmolean museum in Oxford. Harwell has been in existence for over a thousand years, will it exist for a thousand more?
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Ubcrshyyl guvf pyhr jba’g snyy ba fgbal (be nccyr’l) tebhaq!