Voir NNW de la C7th païen saxonne barrow (hlaew) dans l'ancien chantier de chasse adjacent à Talow court, Buckinghamshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni, excavés en 1883.
3780 x 2654 px | 32 x 22,5 cm | 12,6 x 8,8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
2 février 1983
Lieu:
Taplow Saxon Barrow, Taplow Court, Berry Hill, Clivenden Road, Slough, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
View NNW of the C7th Saxon barrow (hlaew) in the old churchyard adjacent to Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. Excavations in 1883 discovered the remains of a Saxon chief in an oak-lined chamber sunk 2m below the base of the mound: he wore gold embroidered robes & was surrounded by a rich collection of grave goods including a sword, two spears, a gold buckle, set with garnets & lapis-lazuli, two shield boses, two buckets & several glass drinking horns. Named Taeppa's hlaew after a C7th Saxon chief this is not necessarily his grave. Saxon barrows like this were used to signal the social position of individuals of high rank, to make territorial claims and mark boundaries. The barrow stands in Buckinghamshire high above the E side of the Thames across the river from Maidenhead in Berkshire. The remains of an Anglo-Saxon church lie buried adjacent to the mound situated in the disused graveyard of St Nicholas' late medieval church demolished in the mid 1850s. The barrow is 4m high & 21m across, it has been partly reconstructed & remodelled as a garden feature in the 85-acre grounds of Taplow Court which stands immediately to the NE. There have been several manor houses on the site since before the Norman conquest of 1066. The medieval manor was once owned by the monks of Merton Abbey. The late Tudor/Elizabethan manor was remodelled in 1855 as a Victorian mansion by architect William Burn. Taplow Court is owned & run by SGI-UK (Soka Gakkai International) a lay Buddhist organisation based on the philosophy of the C13th Japanese sage Nichiren Daishonin.
