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Chilton Cantelo

For over two hundred years the skull of Theophilus Brome has been kept at Higher Chilton Farm. Tradition asserts that he requested that his head should be preserved at the farmhouse near the church when he died in August 1670.

Repeated attempts to inter the head have resulted in 'horrid noises', heard throughout the farmhouse. In the 1860s a sexton began to dig a hole to bury the head but when his spade broke into two pieces, he declared that he would never again attempt 'an act so evidently repugnant to the quiet of Brome's head'.

Brome was probably actively engaged in the Civil War and may have given the directions about the preservation if his head on account of the practice at the time of the Restoration for the bodies of those who had been against the monarchy

To be taken from their burial-places and for the heads to be cut off and exhibited. During restoration of the church Brome's tomb was opened and the skeleton found inside minus the head.

It seems likely, therefore, hat the head, or rather the skull, preserved in a special cabinet over a door in the hall at the farmhouse is indeed *at of Theophilus Brome.Dronfield |