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Round Barrow(s)
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Mutlow Hill is a mid Bronze age roundbarrow next to the impressive Saxon Fleam Dyke. It was reused by the Romans for a temple site. A gold coach is reputedly buried inside. An 1852 source put it that this "is, or should I rather now say has, been implicitly believed among the labouring classes thereabouts for many years."(!)*
'Mutlow Hill' might come from 'Moot Low' / 'Gemot hlaw' - a Saxon meeting mound. It is at the boundary of three hundreds.
*quoted by Westwood and Simpson in their 2005 'Lore of the Land'.
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Posted by Rhiannon
2nd May 2002ce
Edited 20th February 2006ce
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