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{{Short description|Village in Suffolk, England}}
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'''Hoxne''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ɒ|k|s|ən}} {{respell|HOK|sən}}) is
In geology, Hoxne gives its name to the [[Hoxnian Stage]], a British regional subdivision of the [[Pleistocene]] [[Epoch (geology)|Epoch]].
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The area around the village is of significant archaeological importance, as the find-spot of the [[Hoxne Hoard]] of Roman treasure, very early finds of handaxes<ref name=axe>Frere, John: {{ws | [[s: Archaeologia/Volume 13/Account of Flint Weapons discovered at Hoxne in Suffolk|"Account of Flint Weapons Discovered at Hoxne in Suffolk"]]}}, in ''Archaeologia,'' v. 13 (London, 1800): 204-205</ref> and as the type site for the [[Hoxnian Stage]] ("Hoxnian Interglacial").
In 1797, [[John Frere]] (1740-1807) found flint hand tools twelve feet deep in [[Hoxne Brick Pit]], and he was the first person to recognise ancient tools as being man-made. One of his [[hand axe]]s is in the [[British Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://culturalinstitute.britishmuseum.org/asset-viewer/hoxne-handaxe/QQHLEInZfSGV2g?hl=en|title=Hoxne handaxe|publisher=British Museum|access-date= 3 July 2017}}</ref> His letter to the [[Society of Antiquaries of London|Society of Antiquaries]], read on 22 June 1797 and published in the Society's journal ''Archaeologia'' in 1800, argued for the antiquity of these [[handaxes]] as "even beyond the present world," in a period now recognised as belonging to the Lower [[Paleolithic Age]]. Frere argued that these "weapons" were coincident with nearby extinct elephant fossils, in strata at the site of what is now known to be a [[Middle Pleistocene]] lake formed during the [[Hoxnian Stage|Great Interglacial]] geological warming period in Europe. Accordingly, in Britain that entire period is called "Hoxnian," signifying its identification there, based on evidence from undisturbed layers of pollens from plants and trees found at Frere's site in the 1950s (notably by [[Richard Gilbert West]]), which established the cycle of warming and cooling and defined the stages of the Great Interglacial.<ref>[[Chris Stringer]], ''Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain'' (London: 2006)</ref> Teams headed by the [[University of Chicago]] made extensive excavations at Frere's site for five years between 1971 and 1978.<ref>Ronald Singer et al., ''The Lower Paleolithic Site at Hoxne, England'' (Chicago: [[University of Chicago Press]], 1993).</ref> They confirmed the date of the handaxes as ca 400,000 years BP, coincident with the [[Swanscombe]] finds, which, unlike the Hoxne, include human remains. Subsequent research by the [[Ancient Human Occupation of Britain]] team has confirmed the presence of these ancestors of the Neanderthals as occurring towards the terminal, cooling phase of the Interglacial period, which, according to [[Chris Stringer]], "came to an end,...taking with it the lush river valleys, forests and grasslands on which the herds of horses and deer, and their hunters, relied. Ice sheets returned...to the north-west of Europe...and a new pattern of episodic occupation was set in motion," lasting over three hundred thousand years.<ref>Stringer, ''Homo Britannicus'', pp. 90f.</ref> Hoxne Brick Pit is a geological [[Site of Special Scientific Interest]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1004410.pdf
==Hoxne Hoard==
{{Main|Hoxne Hoard}}
The Hoxne Hoard, found in 1992, is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth century found anywhere within the Roman Empire. Only fourteen years after the last dig by the University of Chicago team, on the same farm, only a few hundred
The village is also home to a 15th
== Saint Edmund ==
[[File:Hoxne Village Hall-3871419375.jpg|thumb|left|Inscription on Hoxne Village Hall]]
The account continues, explaining how he was subsequently killed by the Danes at [[St Edmund's Memorial, Hoxne]] after refusing to disavow [[Christianity]].
[[Jean Ingelow]]'s poem 'The Tradition of the Golden Spurs' tells of this legend and she added the following note:
* About the year 870, the Danes under Hingvar invaded East Anglia, which was then governed by Edmund, a king of singular virtue and piety.
* After defending his people with great valour, Edmund was at last defeated in a battle fought near Hoxne in Suffolk. Being hotly pursued, he concealed himself under a bridge called Gold-bridge. The glittering of his golden spurs discovered him to a newly
* The heathen Danes offered him his crown and his life if he would deny the Christian faith, but he continued steadfast, and when he was dragged on to the bridge, he pronounced a malediction (or warning) on all who should afterwards pass over it on their way to be married, the dread of which is still so strong in the neighbourhood that it is said no bride or bridegroom has ever been known to pass over it to this day.<ref>'A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings', published anonymously, 1850</ref>
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* [http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Watermills/hoxne.html Hoxne Mill]
* [https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_index/h/the_hoxne_hoard.aspx Hoxne hoard of Roman artifacts]
* [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/7864.ctl Hoxne site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909144353/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/7864.ctl |date=9 September 2006 }} of the [[Lower Paleolithic
* [https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_prb/h/hoxne_handaxe.aspx Hoxne handaxe]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070602074402/http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/visit/stedmund.cfm Hoxne claim to martyrdom site] of
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