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Post by Adam in Stroud on Mar 6, 2023 20:21:17 GMT
You maybe interested to know that in August I will be helping to excavate an Anglo-Saxon monastery Excellent! Where?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2023 20:30:22 GMT
You maybe interested to know that in August I will be helping to excavate an Anglo-Saxon monastery Excellent! Where? Cookham, Berkshire. Just along the river between Reading and Maidenhead. We've been on Digging for Britain and a couple of years ago I was interviewed by both BBC SE and ITV Meridian for their local news. *I should perhaps not: when I say "monastery", we have found the settlement activity and the cemetery or at least part of it. Personally I suspect the actual monastic building is under the Norman church, but I think what we've found is far more interesting anyway
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Post by aargauer on Mar 6, 2023 20:30:31 GMT
You maybe interested to know that in August I will be helping to excavate an Anglo-Saxon monastery The usual stains in the ground? Or did they actually build those out of stone?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2023 20:33:16 GMT
You maybe interested to know that in August I will be helping to excavate an Anglo-Saxon monastery Stains in the ground? Or did they actually build those out of stone? Well, we have the remains of industrial activity, evidence of agriculture, at least part of the cemetery, a very substantial paved road (very rare from Anglo-Saxon England), and the outlines of wooden buildings. Monasteries were made out of stone and especially this one as it was very important, but like I say what we really have is the "monastic site" and I would bet good money that the monastery itself is under the modern (well, Norman) church
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Post by aargauer on Mar 6, 2023 20:59:31 GMT
Stains in the ground? Or did they actually build those out of stone? Well, we have the remains of industrial activity, evidence of agriculture, at least part of the cemetery, a very substantial paved road (very rare from Anglo-Saxon England), and the outlines of wooden buildings. Monasteries were made out of stone and especially this one as it was very important, but like I say what we really have is the "monastic site" and I would bet good money that the monastery itself is under the modern (well, Norman) church The whole lot including the monks accommodation, chapel, outbuildings (guessing it's too early for the usual cloisters etc)? Isn't there a good chance some would extend beyond the church's footprint? I guess even if it were - still likely to be on consecrated ground and thus a problem?
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Mar 6, 2023 21:04:42 GMT
Cookham, Berkshire. Just along the river between Reading and Maidenhead. We've been on Digging for Britain and a couple of years ago I was interviewed by both BBC SE and ITV Meridian for their local news. *I should perhaps not: when I say "monastery", we have found the settlement activity and the cemetery or at least part of it. Personally I suspect the actual monastic building is under the Norman church, but I think what we've found is far more interesting anyway Presumably this one? Quite a rich area for AS graves IIRC. (Also reminds me that many years ago I used to drink fairly regularly in The Blackwood Arms at Littlebrook Common, not a million miles away)
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Post by gwynthegriff on Mar 6, 2023 22:22:14 GMT
You maybe interested to know that in August I will be helping to excavate an Anglo-Saxon monastery Regular updates please. Pretty please.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2023 23:09:44 GMT
Well, we have the remains of industrial activity, evidence of agriculture, at least part of the cemetery, a very substantial paved road (very rare from Anglo-Saxon England), and the outlines of wooden buildings. Monasteries were made out of stone and especially this one as it was very important, but like I say what we really have is the "monastic site" and I would bet good money that the monastery itself is under the modern (well, Norman) church The whole lot including the monks accommodation, chapel, outbuildings (guessing it's too early for the usual cloisters etc)? Isn't there a good chance some would extend beyond the church's footprint? I guess even if it were - still likely to be on consecrated ground and thus a problem? The chapel definitely. The monks' accomodation, probably, almost certainly at least in part on a site like this. But as well as a later church being built over at least part of it, a lot of the stone may also have been robbed out either for that church or later buildings. But this will only be the third year at the site, and only the second year digging the full four weeks, so there are still a lot of unknowns
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2023 23:10:18 GMT
Cookham, Berkshire. Just along the river between Reading and Maidenhead. We've been on Digging for Britain and a couple of years ago I was interviewed by both BBC SE and ITV Meridian for their local news. *I should perhaps not: when I say "monastery", we have found the settlement activity and the cemetery or at least part of it. Personally I suspect the actual monastic building is under the Norman church, but I think what we've found is far more interesting anyway Presumably this one? Quite a rich area for AS graves IIRC. (Also reminds me that many years ago I used to drink fairly regularly in The Blackwood Arms at Littlebrook Common, not a million miles away) Yep. In fact you can see the top of my head in one of the aerial shots! I have a few more photos from the dig as well
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2023 23:11:28 GMT
You maybe interested to know that in August I will be helping to excavate an Anglo-Saxon monastery Regular updates please. Pretty please. Of course! I'm hoping to blag my way onto two other digs with the uni as well, one in Bosnia before Cookham and one in Iraq after it. I might have to start a thread!
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Post by J.G.Harston on Mar 7, 2023 0:10:23 GMT
Stains in the ground? Or did they actually build those out of stone? Well, we have the remains of industrial activity, evidence of agriculture, at least part of the cemetery, a very substantial paved road (very rare from Anglo-Saxon England), and the outlines of wooden buildings. Monasteries were made out of stone and especially this one as it was very important, but like I say what we really have is the "monastic site" and I would bet good money that the monastery itself is under the modern (well, Norman) church Anything after 1100 is modern.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Mar 7, 2023 13:34:46 GMT
Regular updates please. Pretty please. Of course! I'm hoping to blag my way onto two other digs with the uni as well, one in Bosnia before Cookham and one in Iraq after it. I might have to start a thread! Bosnia, Iraq and Cookham. An interesting mix.
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Post by neilm on Mar 7, 2023 22:21:06 GMT
Regular updates please. Pretty please. Of course! I'm hoping to blag my way onto two other digs with the uni as well, one in Bosnia before Cookham and one in Iraq after it. I might have to start a thread! Which Iraqi site? I assume the dig at Lagash is over for the time being, although I sincerely hope it is there because it looks fantastic.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2023 6:47:51 GMT
My phone was stolen on May 1st so I can't access the email attached to my old account ( rockefeller), so here we are
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Post by stb12 on Jun 30, 2023 8:23:49 GMT
My phone was stolen on May 1st so I can't access the email attached to my old account ( rockefeller), so here we are I had wondered where you went to with the lack of US election posts
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Post by The Bishop on Jun 30, 2023 9:37:24 GMT
I did notice the name and its commonality with your previous handle, my suspicions were correct
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Post by grumpyguy on Jul 16, 2023 17:48:06 GMT
This is to introduce myself. I live in East Suffolk District, Suffolk Coastal constituency. I'm now in my seventies, and effectively retired from politics, especially since the recent death of my friend Caroline 'Cro' Page (thanks to whoever it was who posted it - she was also, by the way, a town councillor in Woodbridge, so there'll be a vacancy there too). From which you may correctly deduce that I have been an active LibDem (constituency sec. in 2010). We used to live in Woodbridge but moved a couple of years ago. I'd like to be classified as non-aligned.
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Jul 17, 2023 11:07:21 GMT
This is to introduce myself. I live in East Suffolk District, Suffolk Coastal constituency. I'm now in my seventies, and effectively retired from politics, especially since the recent death of my friend Caroline 'Cro' Page (thanks to whoever it was who posted it - she was also, by the way, a town councillor in Woodbridge, so there'll be a vacancy there too). From which you may correctly deduce that I have been an active LibDem (constituency sec. in 2010). We used to live in Woodbridge but moved a couple of years ago. I'd like to be classified as non-aligned. Welcome and sorry to hear Caroline
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Post by redforester on Jul 24, 2023 21:47:31 GMT
Hello All - first Labour councillor for many decades on New Forest District Council here. Will set my biog to Labour just as soon as I've worked out how to do it. I think there's at least a couple of people here I recognise...
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Post by edgbaston on Jul 24, 2023 21:54:38 GMT
Hello All - first Labour councillor for many decades on New Forest District Council here. Will set my biog to Labour just as soon as I've worked out how to do it. I think there's at least a couple of people here I recognise... What’s it like being in a Labour group of 1 Cllr? Not much factionalism at least
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