Archaeologists find exiled Anglo-Saxon hermit king’s lair
Sep 02, 2021
2 minutes
WORDS BEN TURNER
British cave dwelling has been identified as the refuge of an exiled Anglo-Saxon king. Anchor Church, located by the River Trent in a secluded part of the countryside in central England, was long considered to be an 18th-century ‘folly’, an extravagant building made solely for ornamentation or as a joke.
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