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  • Archaeologists suggest rock-cut cave was home of exiled Anglo-Saxon King

    07/17/2021 9:30:37 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 56 replies
    HeritageDaily ^ | July 15, 2021 | editors
    Studies by Archaeologists from the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and Wessex Archaeology, suggests that the Anchor Church Caves in Derbyshire, England, was the home of a deposed Anglo-Saxon King.The caves were carved from the Keuper Sandstone outcrop, close to the present-day village of Ingleby, and had previously been thought to have been an 18th century folly...Edmund Simons, a research fellow at the Royal Agricultural University said: “This makes it probably the oldest intact domestic interior in the UK – with doors, floor, roof, windows etc – and, what’s more, it may well have been lived in by a king who...