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Does the Heritage of the Welbeck Estate Include a King Killed at Cuckney? COMMUNITY BOOK MARCH 2016 Contents Contents Does The Heritage Of The Welbeck Estate Include A King Killed At Cuckney? COMMUNITY BOOK MARCH 2016 Contents Contents Foreword 4 Project Scope 5 Pictures From The Project 6-7 Why I’m Excited By This Project 8-9 Community Day 1 10-13 Topography And Graveyard Survey 14-15 Basic Principles Of Ground Penetrating Radar And Magnetometry 16-17 Volunteer’s View 18-20 Get Social Networking 21 A Picture Paints A Thousand Words 22-25 Church History And Our Ancestors 26-30 Read All About It 31 The Battle Of Hatfield 32-39 Community Fieldwork Diary and Follow Ups 40-47 Community Workshop Overview 48-51 Funding Quest 52-55 Community Days 2 And 3 56-61 Conclusion 62 Suggested Reading 63 Copyright © 2016 Battle of Hatfield Investigation Society By Paul Jameson PlaNNINg OUr eveNTs This initially involved a 4 hour meeting with Mercian where we looked at all workshops required, who would run them and when; then largely involved Project booking various slots at Cuckney Village Hall with the kind assistance of Judith Reynolds from the ForewordThe Battle of Hatfield In those pre funded days (well.. A questionnaire was hand Village Hall Committee and multiple hall unlockings Investigation Society (“BOHIS”) two years !) we worked closely delivered to each of approx. 180 from warden Sheila Worthington. was formed in March 2013 with Andy Gaunt, Sean Crossley houses in the 3 local villages of Scope by Joseph Waterfall and Paul & David Budge from our Cuckney, Norton and Holbeck. This Heritage Lottery funded Community book As we needed a base for daily Fieldwork operations Jameson to examine whether archaeological partners, Mercian celebrates the people involved and the discoveries the same logistical process was involved. skeletons discovered during CIC and at January2016 we have Two local schools were also made via the 3 Match funded (by Mercian) Additionally, Church Warden Sheila Brailsford subsidence operations in still not received an invoice for contacted (Cuckney (up to 11 Community Days, Community Workshops opened the church on each of the 10 fieldwork days, December 1950 and into 1951 their costs associated with about years) and the Meden School, ,Fieldwork and school visits that all took place to ensure that operations could take place within relate to the 632 AD Anglo Saxon a dozen meetings. Warsop (11+). between 26th September and 6th December 2015. the church (such as Ground Penetrating Radar) and Battle of Hatfield. Please note that our book is not intended to cover to allow school children access. In July 2015, BOHIS were Additionally, 50 questionnaires topics in great depth due but it will hopefully Since then it is estimated that awarded £15,600 by the Heritage were deposited at Warsop Town provide a deeply flavoured and warm experience The OrDerINg Of BOHIS have expended over 6,000 Lottery Fund (HLF) to investigate Hall and the Newark & District that the Community can refer to in subsequent free hours covering topics such various elements associated with Young Archaeologist Club plus years if they wish to be reminded of this unique eveNTs as research, permissions and St. Mary’s Church, Cuckney and some other interested individuals local event. The 1st Community Day was held on Saturday seeking funding opportunities the Welbeck Estate for which we were also contacted. 26th September 2015 and was intended to,”set amongst others. are very grateful. Greater details, such as those contained in the scene” for the forthcoming events. This was The results showed that there technical reports and the 300 photos from the Bob then generally followed in the order, firstly, of The project was formally was quite an even appetite for Needham collection will however be committed the Community workshops, then the Fieldwork launched at the BOHIS Fund each subject offered. to the BOHIS and Mercian websites and Facebook days, and finally summarised via the 2nd and 3rd Raising Barbeque held in Norton where appropriate, as agreed with the HLF for 5 Community “Findings so Far” Days. on Saturday 17th July. This was 159 people (including Schools) years free of charge. The exceptions to this ordering were the Cuckney attended by over 80 Community expressed an interest in taking Additionally, 2 photo albums containing the Bob members and raised over £400 part. Castle workshops which came right at the end (the Needham collection will be presented to Cuckney 5th and 6th of December). This was because we to put towards the £500 we were History Society. required to contribute to the realised that the new information about the castle project. The results of the questionnaire helped decide that would not be available until we had completed the PICTURE : COURTESY PAUL JAMESON: our brief would encompass : Fieldwork on Friday 13th November. JOSEPH WATERFALL OF BOHIS WITH ANDY GAUNT OF MERCIAN NEAR THE This has involved bringing • Cuckney Castle SITE OF ST. EDWIN’S CHAPEL JUST together 3 local villages Actual Overall OUTSIDE EDWINSTOWE. (Cuckney, Norton & Holbeck) • Cuckney Church AtteNDaNCe plus other interested parties in a • The Bob Needham Photo Collection spirit of community to research, sTaTIsTICs document and display its rich but • Buildings, Field and Street Names There were 401 actual attendances (which included hidden history. • The Skeletons Discovered in 1950/51 – quite a lot of welcome re-visits). When the revisits Do they Relate to The Battle of Hatfield ? were excluded, this still meant that 236 Community members had taken part. When compared against our discreet “budgeted” figure of 159 this was very pleasing. EVENT Attendees (including re-visits) 3 Community Workshop Days 74 Workshops 98 Fieldwork - Schools PICTURE : COURTESY MIKE TUSKA : BOHIS CHAIRMAN PAUL 95 JAMESON EXPLAINS WHAT EVENTS ARE PLANNED FOR THEIR HLF Fieldwork - Other LOTTERY FUNDED EVENT 84 In School 50 DOes The herITage Of The WelBeCK esTaTe TOTAL 401 INClUDe a KINg KIlleD At CUCKNeY? EVENT Attendees The HLF project title Community Days/Workshops/ 91 Fieldwork Fieldwork - MEDEN School 95 In School Brief - Cuckney 50 TOTAL 236 4 5 6 7 View from the Community - By Charles Cannon Why I’m Excited By This Project a Welsh PersPeCTIve ON COMMUNITY TIes aND The BaTTle Of haTfIelD WheN cynics saY ThaT hIstorY has NO Picture: Courtesy PAUL JAMESON: Charles in discussion with MERCIAN’S Andy GAUNT DURING relevaNCe to todaY, ThINK agaIN. sINCe The November’S Fieldwork MINers sTrIKes aND The ClOsUre Of COal MININg haPPeNeD IN The 80s, PeOPle sPOKe Of a COMMUNITY ThaT haD fOrMeD, WheN COal begun to unveil the curtain of until that time kept The Saxons Where better for a British King, confusion caused by this time of and Northumbrians from joining Cadwallon, to fight the English, MININg IN The MIDlaNDs, DreW PeOPle frOM change. with the Saxons of the South. than in the Last British Kingdom other COalMININg COMMUNITIes, IN COrNWall to be lost to Edwin? aND Wales. Old poems and stories written The poet Taliesin (a court poet during this time were redacted from Powys the land of my Guallauc better explains the links There was a sense of a This battle was a major turning in Pagan culture and their spirits and added into the works of ancestors) wrote of Elmet and with the North, having fought community whose origins did point. Penda, a pagan king, and God’s. Bede, Geoffrey of Monmouth, its leader, Guallauc, who almost alongside other northern British not exist before coalmining and fighting alongside Cadwallon, a As the Kings of The Britons Gildas and Nennius (History of brought an end to the English Kings against the Saxons and who therefore lost all their roots, Christian King with a less than lost ground and power and the Britons) long used as our and caused havoc across the ravaging the North, and as far when they closed. Christian attitude fighting Edwin became puppet kingdoms well main sources of literature on our North. Although the southern tip west as mid Wales. who had converted only a few history. was said to be the River Sheaf Yet this is not true. If you look into the Middle Ages, Celtic Unlike Powys, Guallauc burned years before. The last breaths of and the River Don, this kingdom back to the Middle Ages, when Christianity lost its funds to New evidence brings to question himself out with fighting and Paganism. The first breaths of a was said to be fluid and it is quite there was a Hermitage to St. maintain its chapels, churches locations of battles and even eventually lost a battle trying new Christian realm. possible that our site was within David’s Cathedral, in Mansfield. and Monasteries. Sites such as those who were actually involved. to retake Catterick, having its borders. Or to when King John, kept Celtic Christianity would also Glastonbury and Ystrad Marchel These medieval historians had assembled in Edinburgh. a Welsh Princess captive in disappear, over the next 500 in Wales, were falling into their own reasons for subtly Before his demise, his Kingdom Guallauc, like Cadwallon got Sherwood. years, as Cistercians and crumbling disrepair. changing these details. was said to have a southern carried away with ravaging Benedictines followed their boundary of Whitwell Gap, across the country, rather than Look back further to the dark So their Abbots, perfectly versed Former translations of these new masters, the Normans, in which would have been walking having a more careful approach ages, in 632 AD, If Cadwallon, in the tongue of fantastical and ancient poems, much like conquering the lands and psyche distance from Cuckney and to keeping the lands for the Former King of Gwynedd and rich Celtic Christian poetry and Christian literature are now being of their Celtic predecessors. makes a strong case for my British people.
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