Taplow

Taplow is best known for the Taplow Barrow, a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon burial mound [1] [2]. Excavated in 1883, it contained the lavishly furnished grave of a chieftain or prince [2]. Grave goods included a sword, spears, shields, a gold buckle, drinking horns, glass beakers, now held in the British Museum [2]. It was the richest Anglo-Saxon burial known until the discovery of Sutton Hoo in the 1930s [2]. The village name derives from Old English meaning "Taeppa's barrow" [2] [3].