Hoxne

Site Significance: 3

This site has a compelling case for being the location of St Edmund's martyrdom. Abbo's martyrdom of St Edmund, Passio Sancti Eadmundi, names "Hægelisdun" as the location for his death at the hands of the Great Heathen Army. Early identification of Hoxne with Hægelisdun is evidenced by the existence of a chapel dedicated to St Edmund at the Benedictine Priory of Hoxne, and by the reference to Hoxne as the location of the martyrdom in a charter written when the church and chapel became part of Norwich Priory's estate in 1101. In 1848, a local oak tree, believed to be the very tree upon which the Saint was tied during his martyrdom, fell down and split open revealing inside an arrow and arrowhead. These are now stored at the Moyes Hall Museum in Bury St. Edmunds.

Type of site: Other
Ownership: Church of England
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