Posted by: Blog Administrator
on Aug 2, 2011
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
We recently spent an afternoon in the village of Sherston with work experience students looking at the development of the village. A prominent feature is the Rattlebone Inn, standing at the corner of the market place of what was a planned medieval town. The inn sign shows a Saxon warrior wielding an axe, commemorating the legend of John Rattlebone.
F0018 The Rattlebone Inn. The building dates from around 1700 when several new houses were built in Sherston.
We must turn now to John Aubrey, who recorded the following piece of doggerel that was used by old women and children in the mid 17th century;
“Fight well Rattlebone,
