North
Lowe at Wednesfield as the sepulchral monument of one, and the South Lowe
of the other. "There was," says Shaw, the county historian, "a little to
the south of the Walsall Road, half a mile south-west of the village of
Nechels, a great low called Stowman Hill."

Dr. Plot, writing in 1686, declares "the bank above Nechels, where now is
a stone pit, Stowman Low, now removed to mend the roads, and Northfield,
to be the genuine remains; but the bank where the windmill stood was a
hard rock, several yards below the surface of the earth, and there was
nothing remarkable found upon the removing of Stowman Low, so that all
this is uncertainty."

Although the precise location of the Tettenhall battleground has always
puzzled the antiquaries, there are, says one authority, "three lows on
the common between Wombourn and Swin, placed in a right line that runs
directly east and west, and about half a mile to the north of them is
another, by the country people called Soldiers' Hill. They are all large
and capable of covering a great number of dead bodies.

"There cannot be the least doubt but this place was the scene of action,
for King Edward, to perpetuate the memory of this signal victory, I
presume, here founded a church, called by the name of the place Wonbourn,
now Wombourn; and took this whole parish out of the parish of Tettenhall,
which, before this battle, extended as far as the forest of Kinver." It
may be added, for whatever such support is worth, that in times past a
number of ancient weapons have been dug up at Wombourne.

Coming to the latest and most reliable authority, Mr. W. H. Duignan, of
Walsall, here is what he writes in his admirable work, "Staffordshire
Place Names," under the heading "Low Hill," which is the name of an
ancient estate at Bushbury:--

"Huntbach the antiquary, wrote in the 17th century that there was then a
very large tumulus here. Much, if not the whole of it, has been since
destroyed. The hill is lofty and a place likely to be selected for the
burial of some prehistoric magnate. In 911 a battle was fought between
the Saxons and the Danes, called in the Chronicles the battle of
Tettenhall, but which was really waged on Wednesfield Heath (now Heath
Town).

"The dead were buried as usual under mounds, which in Huntbach's time
still remained, and were known as North Low, South Low, the Little Low,
the Great Low, Horselow, Tromelow, and Ablow (many of these names
survive), beside