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St. Margaret of Scotland brought her religious faith to a violent kingdom and had an influence which lasted for centuries, writes Father Gregory Elder.
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“We know he was buried in the predecessor abbey to the building we’ve got now,” says Campbell. “There was a big Anglo-Saxon church there called St Mary’s where he was brought to be buried.
There is an oral history of the monastery and the town’s Saxon-based past, but the new discovery provides solid evidence of an active Anglo-Saxon community before the abbey was built.
Here is what is expected to happen at the King’s coronation: – Recognition This rite dates back to ancient procedures of the Witan – the supreme council of England in Anglo-Saxon times.
Excavations near Crowland Abbey in eastern England have unearthed a prehistoric henge that may have become a "holy island" for Christian hermits in the early medieval period.
Archaeologists have discovered the site of the long-lost palace of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. Using a combination of ground-penetrating radar, data from past archaeological excavations ...
On Christmas Day 1066, he was crowned William I of England in Westminster Abbey, ending England’s Anglo-Saxon phase of history. The Norman Conquest was in full swing.
Greenwich’s names are steeped in heritage dating back hundreds of years - all the way from 12th century abbeys to Anglo-Saxons.
Cotswold Archeologists and volunteers discovered 24 Anglo-Saxon skeletons believed to date between 670 and 940 AD while excavating at a hotel near Abbey in Malmesbury, United Kingdom.
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