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| The background is an extract from the Sunbury
Charter... which is King Eadgar's Charter, granting land at Sunnanbyrig (an Anglo-Saxon
spelling of Sunbury) to his kinsman Ælfheh in AD. 962.
Spear Heads Bronze Age rapier and spear heads found in the Thames at Sunbury. (2000-500 B.C.) |
The Sunbury Hoard The hoard consists of 300 coins cast from tin and bronze and copying Greek designs. They had been buried in a simple pottery bowl and were found in 1950 in Laleham Road, Shepperton. Believed to have been buried in the first century B.C. they are now in the Museum of London. The Cloven Barrow A Bronze Age burial mound now in the garden of a private house. |
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