Medieval
Cippenham Royal Palace
There is a tradition that in Cippenham there was once an Anglo-Saxon palace which was home to the Kings of Mercia. In A Topographical Dictionary of England published in 1848 [1], the entry…
THE CIPPENHAM COLLECTION
Anglo-Saxon
People, places and stories from our village’s past.
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Medieval
The Montem Mound is Anglo-Saxon
In December 2016, a team from the Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, drilled into the Montem Mound (the Salt Hill) and removed samples of soil in order to determine its age.…