Well Grahame I will have to disagree on your version of Haam, Perhaps I have spelt it wrong and it should be Hiam. When I researched Ingatestone and Fryerning's iron age history. Essex council said their records showed Ingatestone taking it's name from a Saxon called Ginga, personally that is the name somebody gives to a cat. When I had trawled through the Saxon Charters, I came across an entry for Rycinngahaam, witnessed by St Cedd for some land given to build a chapel called Bedemans Berg. Barking Abbey, owned the Estates of Handley and Woodbarns, The Abbess, Ethelburga who had a son called Bede, coincidentally, herself an Offa Princess from Lindon in Lincolnshire, her brother Erkenwald, Bishop of London otherwise known as King of the Angles, both were children of the Mercian King of Briton in the 7th century, did not live in a town,place or other without an association to the Virgin Mary or God. I concluded that Rycinngahaam in fact had a closer meaning as Gods Enclosure from a hybrid of Italian/Latin and Hebrew and not that of a cat. Due in the main because every major house had a name
derived from the most powerful Religious Orders in Britain including Furness Abbey, Canterbury and Westminster. I stood on top of a 40ft high iron age barrow, in a wood called Barrow Wood that cannot
be explained away as the work of industrious badgers. Found an Iron age road, links to the Knights Hospitallers, a Roman horse market, evidence of an iron age chariot burial, the oldest recorded Syracuse/Ancient Greece 280/270BC coin ever found in the British Isles, confirmed by Dr Paul Seeley of Colchester Museum Resource Centre who is a leading specialist on Iron Age Britain and on closer inspection of an area covering thousands of acres, what Council Archaeologists had identified as deer banks, were in fact remnants of ditches belonging to a large Iron Age Settlement, previously overlooked
by historians as of little significance. When i questioned the reliability of distances in the Antonine Itinerary as locating towns should match to where they are purportedly said to be today, Caeseromagus, Caesar's Market (Chelmsford ) the explanation given to me for discrepancies was that one of the Roman surveyors was alot taller than the other and they started at opposite ends and that was why Caeseromagus was 26 miles from Londinium and 24 miles from Camulodunum. I had never heard anything that ridiculous until I read the Police reasoning for convicting Jeremy Bamber. Perhaps one of the Roman surveyors cheated by riding some of the journey on a ladies bicycle. After even more extensive cross referenced research I established the exact location of the Roman Farriers workshop, that just happened to be next to the Roman Horse Market. I came to the conclusion that perhaps this was in fact the location of Caeseromagus because the distances actually matched up for Londinium. As it became apparent to me that the Iron Age settlements were always on high ground with heath close at hand, it made sense that the reason Cunobelins coins have a horse on one side and an ear of wheat
on the other, that the ancient Britons were in fact Horse masters and had been supplying the known world at that time with the finest chariot ( quadrigga four horse ) racing animals. They were all gelded
to make them easy to control. Gelding being invented by the Hebrews and shown by the use of phylacteries. Ham in a place name is God unless of course someone can come up with a more feasible explanation and that is why I am sticking to my original explanation. The Ancient Britons were horse worshippers under the Goddess Epona ( she is always seen with a horse with a mouth full of fat ears of wheat ) Dr William Stukely understood this when he rebuilt Stonehenge and found he could only rebuild
a horseshoe structure, he also discovered a horse burial on top of Silbury hill. He was the leading antiquary of his time and to protect the church he was demonised as a heretic. He is buried in St Marys
Church Barking, Close to the site of Barking Abbey and I have been informed the Church and former Abbey were linked by a tunnel. Oh I forgot to mention the tunnel system at Fryerning/ Ingatestone
linking Bedemans Berg to Furze Hall to St Leonards to St Marys Church all in the enclosure where the Syracuse coin was found. I hope this goes some way in to explaining my reasoning and conclusions.
