Bury St Edmunds, Eastgate sign
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Bury St Edmunds, Eastgate sign
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 26 Oct 2020
The sign shows three crowns, each pierced by two arrows saltire, the crest of the great abbey which grew up around Saint Edmund’s shrine. King Edmund of East Anglia, otherwise known as Edmund the Martyr was King from 855 until he was killed at an unidentified place known as Haegelisdun, after he refused the Danes' demand that he renounce Christ: the Danes beat him, shot him with arrows and then beheaded him just to be on the safe side. His body was taken to what is now Bury St Edmunds and a shrine was created. I don’t think anyone knows what Bury St Edmunds was called before it was re-named Bury St. Edmunds; Haegelisdun perhaps. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6655804
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Image Location
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52.246243
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0.719968