The site, known as Mantle Walls, lies in a field outside the village of Ancrum, Scotland, close to the English border. Previous work here has identified a "substantial" medieval building ...

The vivid blue lapis pigment produced was so precious medieval artists and manuscript illuminators reserved it for the most important subjects—the Virgin Mary’s blue mantle, for example.

"It is already known that medieval churches used precious textile ... rare surviving jeweled textile made by Arab craftsmen—the mantle of the Norman King Roger II of Sicily, which was ...

Through finds, including medieval ironwork and substantial stone walls, archaeologists are confident that Mantle Walls was the residence of the Bishop of Glasgow. But defining proof has yet to be ...