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William Stukeley
drawing of
Crowland Abbey
with possible
barrow (above right)
Did a medieval hermit named Guthlac make a plundered prehistoric monument in the Fens of eastern England his home? For generations, scholars inspired by an early eighth-century a.d. account known as the Life of Guthlac have searched for the repurposed barrow where the ascetic—or his sister Pega—is purported to have dug out a cell and private chapel. They have focused in particular on Anchor Church Field in the t
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