Dead Man's Plack
Illustration from Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn by William Henry Hudson | |
| Location | Longparish, Hampshire, England |
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| Coordinates | 51°12′04″N 1°25′39″W / 51.2012°N 1.4275°W |
| Type | Cross |
| Material | Stone |
| Completion date | 1825 |
| Dedicated to | Earl Athelwold of Wherwell |
Dead Man's Plack is a Grade-II listed 19th-century monument to Æthelwold, Ealdorman of East Anglia, who, according to legend, was killed in 963 near the site where it stands by his rival in love, King Edgar I.
The monument was erected in 1825 at Harewood Forest, between the villages of Picket Twenty and Longparish, Hampshire, by Lt Col William Iremonger.