Castle Mound

There were all sorts of things buried in the castle mound. Well, all sorts of things were SUPPOSED to be buried in the castle mound: buried treasure (well, the ‘buried’ part went without saying, I suppose), prehistoric chieftans, historic chieftans, King Arthur’s sword, King Arthur’s table, King Arthur himself, a nuclear bunker, a nuclear bomb, a World War Two command station (accessed by an underground railway), an underground railway station, a Viking longboat and a Viking.

None of these things was actually present. But the castle mound did contain: the remains of several family pets, a time capsule left by the local primary school in 2006 and, in a surprisingly shallow grave given that it had remained undiscovered since the mid eighties, the body of a local politician who had faked his own murder in the hopes that blame would fall upon a particularly detested political opponent. Against all the odds, the body had remained undiscovered and the elaborate series of ‘clues’ planted by the ‘victim’ had, like the body, not seen the light of day.