7th century church discovered on UK's Holy Island
7/04/2017 10:00:00 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Archaeologists working for the National Lottery funded Peregrini Lindisfarne Community Archaeology project have made exciting new discoveries which may well have turned a long held belief about the Holy Island of Lindisfarne on its head.
Excavation of the church on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne [Credit: Jessica Turner, Northumberland County Council]
The remote and beautiful island holds a special place in history. Known as the ‘Cradle of Christianity’ in the North East, it was here that St Aidan established a monastery in AD635 and set out to convert the pagan Northumbrians. The monastery developed into an international centre of learning and craftsmanship and it was during this Golden Age of Northumbria that exquisite items such as the Lindisfarne Gospels were produced. All this came to a crashing end with the arrival of the Vikings in the late 8th Century.
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