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Published: 6:15 PM February 20, 2021    The sounds of battle and a Saxon warrior ghost are said to haunt Tutt Hill near Barnham. - Credit: Archant Library The clash of swords, the sound of a man screaming, the ghost of a traitor who was hanged by the Viking invaders he helped…this corner of Norfolk is filled with haunting echoes of the past.  On the Norfolk and Suffolk boundary, close to a burial mound near Rushford, the land is filled with age-old secrets from a time when the Danes sought...

Published: 6:15 PM February 18, 2021    The sounds of battle and a Saxon warrior ghost are said to haunt Tutt Hill near Barnham. - Credit: Archant Library On the Suffolk and Norfolk boundary, close to a burial mound near Barnham, the land is filled with age-old secrets from a time when the Danes sought to overpower East Anglia. In 865, the Vikings set up camp at Thetford and spent a harsh winter there close to where King Edmund of the East Angles’ army lay.  As legend has it, the battle b...