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was plausible that through the difficulty of carrying this leaden 
chest, with its valuable contents across the ‘‘ pass of the Ribble,” 
they would bury it. There is another point—in the song of 
Brunanburgh it is stated :— 
‘* Five lay on the battle stead 
Youthful kings, 
‘ By swords in slumber laid.’’ 
MSS. of the Chronicle contain this entry :—‘ a.v. 9387: 
This year, Athelstane and Edmund his brother led a force to 
Brunanburgh, and there fought against Anlaf; and Christ help- 
ing had the victory; and they there slew five kings and seven 
earls.” 
There is a tradition current in the neighbourhood of Wors- 
thorne and Mereclough that five kings lie buried on Worsthorne 
Moor, and it has often been proved that tradition has preserved 
many an event which otherwise might have been lost sight of. He 
need scarcely refer to the name of ‘* Danes’ House,” but would 
mention a tradition current in the neighbourhood of Worsthorne 
that a chest of gold lies buried on Worsthorne Moor, and he had 
sometimes thought that there might be some connection between 
this and the Cuerdale hoard. Taking all these things into con- 
sideration, he maintained that the preponderance of evidence is 
in favour of our locality, for if we take the nomenclature of the 
district the evidence is stronger than that of any other. In the 
second place the description of the natural features of the scenery 
at the ‘‘ Battle Spot’ confirm. The whole of our neighbourhood 
is full of traditions of conflicts between the Danes and Saxons. 
None of these points can be advanced in favour of any other site. 
And he respectfully submitted that the banks of the Brun was the 
scene where this great Anglo-Saxon battle was fought. (Cheers). 
The discussion which followed was taken part in by the Pres- 
ident (Mr. W. Lewis Grant), Messrs. J. S. Sutcliffe, G. Gill, Fred 
J. Grant, J.P., Wm. Thompson, J. 8. Mackie, and Mrs. Heaton, 
all of whom expressed the view that the Lecturer had made out 
a very good case in favour of the Buruley district being the site of 
the great battle. Mr. Fred J. Grant, J.P. believed that there 
were about twenty places which claimed to have been the site of 
the battle. 
A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the Lecturer, who 
expressed his indebtedness to Mr. T. T. Wilkinson, than whom 
no other writer had been able to bring so large an amount of 
corroborative evidence in favour of the neighbourhood of Burnley. 
By the kindness of Mrs. Heaton, there were exhibited a plan . 
of the supposed battlefield, and an implement found in the 
neighbourhood of Burnley. 
