Archaeologists Have Discovered Monastery Of A Scottish Princess From The 7th Century:

[Disir]

Archeologists and citizen scientists have uncovered what might be Princess Aebbe’s monastery, which in the seventh century was born a pagan but later spread Christianity along the British northeast coast.

She established the monastery at Coldingham, a village in southeastern Scotland, once the pagan – turned – Christian princess (615 – 668) became an abbess.

But the monastery was short-lived; Viking raiders destroyed it in 870.

Archaeologists have been looking for the remains of this monastery for decades. Excavators have now located a narrow, circular ditch, which is likely the “vallum,” or the boundary that surrounded Aebbe’s religious settlement, DigVentures, a U.K.-based group led by archaeologists and supported by crowdfunding, announced on March 8.

Citizen scientists help carry out DigVentures’ projects.”Vallums were not necessarily deep, intimidating defensive structures but more like a symbolic marker to show that you were entering a venerated or spiritual place,”
Archaeologists Have Discovered Monastery Of A Scottish Princess From The 7th Century

Citizen scientists. Another name for sucka............no, I mean volunteer. In this instance it is also much more adult sounding than say........playing in the dirt.

 

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Viking raiders destroyed it in 870.

Go, Vikings!

 

[Weatherman2020]

Archeologists and citizen scientists have uncovered what might be Princess Aebbe’s monastery, which in the seventh century was born a pagan but later spread Christianity along the British northeast coast.

She established the monastery at Coldingham, a village in southeastern Scotland, once the pagan – turned – Christian princess (615 – 668) became an abbess.

But the monastery was short-lived; Viking raiders destroyed it in 870.

Archaeologists have been looking for the remains of this monastery for decades. Excavators have now located a narrow, circular ditch, which is likely the “vallum,” or the boundary that surrounded Aebbe’s religious settlement, DigVentures, a U.K.-based group led by archaeologists and supported by crowdfunding, announced on March 8.

Citizen scientists help carry out DigVentures’ projects.”Vallums were not necessarily deep, intimidating defensive structures but more like a symbolic marker to show that you were entering a venerated or spiritual place,”
Archaeologists Have Discovered Monastery Of A Scottish Princess From The 7th Century

Citizen scientists. Another name for sucka............no, I mean volunteer. In this instance it is also much more adult sounding than say........playing in the dirt.

I get a kick out of picking up an artifact no human has touched in thousands of years. You must be a millennial, they have no interest in the past.