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[004365] [Dead Bodies in Louth] A Particular Account of a Most Wonderful Discovery of the Remains of Several Dead Bodies , Found in the Market-place of the Town of Louth in Lincolnshire. Nottingham: Ordoyno, 1823. First Edition. 4to. Unbound. Broadside. Good. Printed broadside, approximately 180mm x 250mm in size

Laid down onto paper, large vertical crease catching the odd letter but with no loss of sense, lightly browned, with one small hole catching the letter ‘e’ in ‘conjecture’, but again without loss of sense

Printed by Ordoyno of Pannier Close in Nottingham (almost certainly Charles Sambrook Ordoyno, fl. 1792-1826 – See BBTI)

Noting the uncovering of fourteen coffins made by the hollowing out of tree trunks, and with gold and silver coins within, during the digging of foundations for a house in the market place in Louth. Bayley in his Notitiae Ludae, Or Notices of Louth (1834), states that there were seven or eight in number, and “it is probable that they were of the better sort of the ancient Anglo-Saxons, as such only were coffined”, he also dismisses the general belief that they were of gigantic nature, and that they were murdered by Oliver Cromwell. Similar Anglo-Saxon coffins, eighty-one in fact, were recently (2016) uncovered in Great Ryburgh, Norfolk

Seemingly unrecorded, not found in Library Hub