Archaeologists from the Royal Agricultural University, working with colleagues from Wessex Archaeology, conducted detailed surveys of the Anchor Church Caves, between the villages of Foremark and Ingleby. Researchers say the rooms’ narrow doorways and windows closely resemble Saxon architecture. A rock-cut pillar is similar to those found in a Saxon crypt at nearby Repton that’s believed to have been completed by the Mercian King Wiglaf who reigned as King of Mercia—a kingdom in the English Midlands from the sixth century to the 10th century—from 827 until his death in 839. “You’ve got the doors, the windows, the ceilings, the floors. It’s fragmentary, it’s been knocked around, but it’s there,” explains principal investigator Edmund Simons from the Royal Agricultural University. “There’s no other place, really, in Britain where you can walk into something so old, where people were living, cooking, sleeping, eating, and praying.” Caves, such as the Anchor Church Caves, …