Radical rethink after new discoveries
The archaeological excavations on The Heugh on Holy Island.
Published: 08:12 Sunday 07 January 2018
Perhaps the most exciting, single story to come out of the Peregrini project, specially in terms of its importance away from north Northumberland, was the astonishing finds made by the community archaeology project.
While there is still work to do, last year’s discoveries on Holy Island could be internationally significant due to their links to the early Christian saints.
Until this summer, the assumption had been that the original Anglo-Saxon churches stood down in the shelter of a high rocky ridge known as the Heugh in the area now occupied by St Mary’s Parish Church and the Priory.
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