A local champion, a retired soldier, came forward in response to the villagers' requests, and he asserted that he could kill her by driving a sword through her heart.

The sharply-cut small valley in the limestone, which is now smoothed over by ploughing, is as likely a site as any for the dramatic events, assuming they happened.

An aerial photograph[8] shows the High Dike running north and south in the centre, RAF Cranwell is to the east and the valley lies between them.

A slightly different telling of the story can be found in Christopher Marlowe's book, Legends of the Fenland People (1926).

Until their disbandment in 1312, the Knights Templar were major landowners on the higher lands of Lincolnshire, where they had a number of preceptories on property which provided income, while Temple Bruer was an estate on the Lincoln Heath, believed to have been used also for military training.