Cuʹnobelin’s Gold Mines
. Caverns in the chalk beds of Little Thurrock, Essex; so called from the tradition that King Cuʹnobelin hid in them his gold. They are sometimes called Dane-holes, because they were used as lurking-places by the Norsemen.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.