Depden - lost in arcadia, lost in time

[lostinarcadia]

Thursday I visited Depden village, further along the road to Haverhill from Bury (A145), past Chedburgh. There is a nice little farm shop there: //www.depden.com. It has a food shop with gourmet treats, a cafe, and a garden (which we weren't able to view.) We went there to meet the Depden Knitting Group, who made us most welcome. Knitting and

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[splodgenoodles]

I clicked, it was beautiful. I can see what the writer has said: that the process of renewal would give it a real sense of ...something else.

[quatrefoil]

Lovely. The ditch and mound construction may well predate the church, and quite possibly its predecessor(s). It was common practice for early medieval Christian churches to be built on the pre-Christian sacred sites and there are some spectacular examples of churches in the middles of stone circles. So my guess is that the ditch and mound are the remains of a henge (i.e. the ditch) and that the church represents a colonisation of an existing sacred place for the new religion. It would be interesting to know more about the surrounding geography. I think you said it was near a river, which might lend some weight to my theory.