St Edmund's Memorial, Hoxne

Edmund was King of East Anglia and in 865 faced an invasion by a Viking force known as the Great Heathen Army.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle simply notes that King Edmund fought the Vikings while they wintered at Thetford in 869 and was defeated and killed.

Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet, the then owner of Hoxne Hall, on whose land the oak stood, informed the Bury and West Suffolk Archaeological Institute of the event, relating how an arrowhead found in the tree had been exhibited by his son-in-law Lord Mahon at the Society of Antiquaries, of which Mahon was president.

She had inherited Oakley Park, as Hoxne manor was then known following the death of her brother Sir Edward Kerrison, 2nd Baronet who had died in 1886.

Faulty instructions given to Richard F. Perfitt, a stone mason based in Diss, led to errors in the inscription.