Isleham
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| Isleham | |
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| OS Grid Reference: | TL644738 |
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| Population: | 2347 (2001 Census) |
| Dwellings: | 937 (2001 Census) |
| Formal status: | village |
| Administration | |
| County: | Cambridgeshire |
| Region: | East Anglia |
| Nation: | England |
| Post Office and Telephone | |
| Post town: | Ely |
| Postcode: | CB7 |
| Dialling Code: | 01638 |
Isleham is a small village located in Cambridgeshire, England, of particular interest to members of the ancient Peyton family.
St Andrews Church, Isleham, is the burial site for important ancestors of the Peyton family. Many visitors who have Peyton ancestors visit the church throughout the year, and obtain rubbings of the famous brasses decorating the Peyton tombs. The church continues to be restored with the help of donations from Peyton families in the UK and U.S.A. An important location for anyone having Peyton family ties.
Its name seems to come from Anglo-Saxon Gísla hám = "the home of the hostages". It seems that in Anglo-Saxon societies the position of a hostage from one political group held by another political group, was sometimes more or less voluntary, and the meaning of the word could slip into "representative".
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[edit] Archaeology
The region between Devil's Dyke and the line between Littleport and Shippea Hill shows a remarkable amount of archaeological findings of the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age [1]. Findings in Isleham include a hoard of more than 6500 pieces of bronze, in particular swords, spear-heads, arrows, axes, palstaves, knives, daggers, armour, decorative equipment (in particular for horses) and many fragments of sheet bronze, all dating from the late Bronze Age. The greater part of these objects have been entrusted to the Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds, while other items are within the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. The swords show holes where rivets or studs helt the wooden hilt in place (studs were usually made of bronze except for commanders who had silver-studded swords or for a commander-in-chief who had a gold-studded sword).[2]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Hall, David [1994]. Fenland survey : an essay in landscape and persistence / David Hall and John Coles. London; English Heritage. ISBN 1-850-74477-7., p. 81-88
- ^ Where Troy Once Stood, I. Wilkens, 2005, p. 90
