This story begins in Hatfield, Board Oak in the County of Essex, England, a village of about 1000 people, two miles south of London Stansted Airport, and about 20 miles northeast of the center of London as the crow flies. It is in the Portingbury Hills, which has been a site of archaeological interest for the last sixty years, since the “hill” is really a five-foot high and 100-foot diameter mound that dates back to the Iron Age, which occurred in England between 700 BC to 43 AD. Archaeologists have found a small flint blade, pottery shards, animal bones, burnt flint, and charcoal to support this dating. In addition to the mound, there are a series of U-shaped ditches. Archaeologists believe that there had been an enclosure with a timber-strengthened rampart, suggesting that this had been a farmstead. Some of the earthwork may have been expanded in medieval times.
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