Newslink : Archaeology dig at Britain's oldest monastery at Beckery, near Glastonbury

in #newslink8 years ago

    THE remains of the earliest monastery in the British Isles have been unveiled in Somerset.     Excavations at Beckery, near Glastonbury, and radiocarbon dating of  bodies in the monastic cemetery have shown it began in the 5th or early  6th Centuries AD, before Somerset was conquered by the Saxon kings of  Wessex in the 7th Century.  

Full News Link : http://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/14946279.Archaeologists_uncover_remains_of_Britain_s_oldest_monastery_in_Somerset/#


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