Site of Anglo-Saxon fingerpost
Description of this historic site
The site of a signpost dating to the Migration and Early Medieval periods and known from documentary evidence. It was situated 500m north of Waddon Hill on the route of a trackway of the same date.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Stapol (post or pole) referred to in a charter dated AD 757 (though the relevant boundary clause is of later date). Probably a fingerpost showing the way.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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