Where Saxons Trod Traditional Cache
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A large pill bottle hidden in an ancient trackway.
Though there is archaeological evidence of British and Roman activity in the area, the name Ullenhall has it's oragins in Norse and Anglo-Saxon times as Ulla's Hall. There are several features of Anglo Saxon habitation still visible (the Perry Mill that gives it's name to the lane behind you is probably one) but you standing in one of the most obvious.
When Saxons originally settled England they divided their land from their neighbours by digging a ditch and bank. Hedges where planted on both sides of the ditch and the ditch would be used as a path. Over time paths became lanes and as they where widened most lost one of their hedges destroying the evidence of their origins.
Look back towards the village and you'll see a rare surviving example. A wide flat-bottomed ditch with a hedge on both sides. Not a ditch for transporting rain water, but for dividing one Saxons land from another and allowing peasants to reach their fields more easily.
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