What is recorded here

Twenty dead bodies lay hidden beneath the church mound before anyone built a wall around them. The graveyard is not a crowded field but a small rise where human bones waited patiently for a building to give them meaning. St Anne's church appeared later on that same mound, perhaps claiming the buried people as its own. The Yellow River still flows eighty metres west, carrying rain past the place where the dead were forgotten and then remembered through stone.

Situated on a rise in a fairly level landscape with the small NNE-SSW Yellow River c. 80m to the W. St. Anne's church (ME025-002001-) is situated on a circular mound (diam. 30m; H 1.5m) which is of artificial construction and from which at least twenty inhumations, probably associated with the church, were recovered in excavation (E000149) in 1975-6 by E. P. Kelly (1976) and 1980-1, but there is no enclosed graveyard (SMR file). The enclosure (ME025-002---) pre-dates the church, and St. Anne’s Well (ME025-045----) is c. 70m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 June, 2014

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