Show Find Relics of Saxon I Kings ings I Capt Vaughan Williams of bf Old Windsor has' has discovered what he believes believes be be- I I to be the site of the palace of th tha Saxon kings and the pre-conquest pre town of Windsor It Is believed that there once stood at Old Windsor the palace of Edward the Confessor but although several Saxon urns have been excavated here from time to time the actual position of the palace has hils never been decided Tighe and Davis In their Annals of ot Windsor say that Old Windsor was probably selected by the Saxon kings as a residence for the same reason as asit asit asit it was subsequently repurchased by William the Conqueror on account of ot Its convenience for hunting in m the for for- est The lands of Windsor granted by Edward the Confessor and exchanged by the abbot of Westminster with William Wll- Wll liam Ham appear to have had reference to Old Windsor and did dill not Include the site of the present town or castle King William held Old Windsor as his own demesne |