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Pathways to the Past

Exploring the legacy of Ethelburga – a community project focused on the Anglo-Saxon heritage of Lyminge, a village in the Elham Valley in East Kent.

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    • Our Project Objectives
    • Why is the domain name “Geopaethas” ?
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  • FIND OUT MORE
    • Anglo-Saxon Lyminge – why the village is so significant
    • Who was Ethelburga?
    • Excavating Queen Ethelburga’s Church
    • Uncovering the history of the church in Lyminge
    • Lyminge is unique!
    • What’s in a name – where does the name Lyminge come from?
    • Why is Lyminge Parish Church important?
    • Angles, Saxons and Anglo-Saxons: Ethnic identities in southern Britain in the 5th-9th Centuries AD
    • Further reading on Anglo-Saxon Lyminge
    • The Stones of Lyminge
  • THE ROYAL SAXON WAY
    • The churches of the Royal Saxon Way
    • The Royal Saxon Women of the Royal Saxon Way
  • NEW ART IN LYMINGE
    • ‘Eternal Source’
    • ‘Two Saints’
    • ‘Monument to Ethelburga’
    • ‘The Ethelburga Quilt’
  • Contact us
  • DONATE
  • PRINTS OF QUEEN ETHELBURGA’S CHURCH FOR SALE

Category: new churchyard

Day 38 – Media Day!

August 21, 2019 ~ geopaethas ~ 1 Comment

The BBC were on site in the morning recording for the South East News programme.  We were initially scheduled to give a live broadcast on the lunchtime bulletin, but this was pulled at the last moment.  The broadcast went out on the 6.30pm bulletin, available here on IPlayer but only until 7pm on 21 August. … Continue reading Day 38 – Media Day!

Day 32 – More activity in the New Churchyard

August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 ~ geopaethas ~ 1 Comment

The trench in the New Churchyard east of the War Memorial continues to reveal new features, so we now have quite an array of pits and postholes. At the eastern end of the trench, we now have the foundation of a significant wall.  We don't have anything dating this currently, but this could be associated … Continue reading Day 32 – More activity in the New Churchyard

Day 28 – Filling a gap in our knowledge of Ethelburga’s monastery

August 8, 2019August 14, 2019 ~ geopaethas ~ 3 Comments

It may not look very much but this is a very important piece of pottery.  It comes from a sealed layer in a pit in the trench we have opened to the east of the War Memorial in the New Churchyard, and it appears to be Middle Saxon, dating probably to the mid 7th Century. … Continue reading Day 28 – Filling a gap in our knowledge of Ethelburga’s monastery

Day 27 -Exploring the boundaries of our dig

August 8, 2019August 14, 2019 ~ geopaethas ~ 2 Comments

We are continuing to excavate the burials within the chancel of the Anglo-Saxon church in order to see if we can understand when burial began.  We think this was probably in the later medieval period, after the Anglo-Saxon church was demolished, but this is an hypothesis we have to test by digging. The observant amongst … Continue reading Day 27 -Exploring the boundaries of our dig

Day 26 – Broadening the coverage

August 7, 2019August 14, 2019 ~ geopaethas ~ 1 Comment

We were delighted to welcome Carly Hilts, Editor of the popular magazine Current Archaeology, to the site yesterday.  There is planned to be a short feature in the next issue and then a longer article in the issue after that. Work continued in the chancel yesterday, excavating more burials including the adult whose torso and … Continue reading Day 26 – Broadening the coverage

Day 4- Moving into the Old Churchyard

July 11, 2019July 27, 2019 ~ geopaethas ~ 1 Comment

With the arrival of the mini-digger, we were able to start removing the tarmac path in the Old Churchyard today. By the end of the day, we were still not down to the chalk bedrock, so the natural ground surface is either a lot lower than it is only a short distance away in the … Continue reading Day 4- Moving into the Old Churchyard

Day 3 and the preparatory work continues

July 10, 2019August 21, 2019 ~ geopaethas ~ 1 Comment

Work continued on site today in good conditions.  Trench 1, opened yesterday in the New Churchyard has been taken down to the chalk bedrock and cleaned up.  The pits appear to be natural formations.  This trench will now be back-filled as there is nothing of further interest to be found. Close by, Gabor thought it … Continue reading Day 3 and the preparatory work continues

The start of the dig!

July 9, 2019August 14, 2019 ~ geopaethas ~ 2 Comments

So here we are at last breaking soil!  We have the permissions in place to begin the dig and here is the first archaeology taking place today.  Gabor has decided to carry out some test excavations in the New Churchyard before moving back closer to the church to explore the known remains there.  The current … Continue reading The start of the dig!

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  • ABOUT THE PROJECT
    • Our Project Objectives
    • Why is the domain name “Geopaethas” ?
  • Blogs
  • FIND OUT MORE
    • Anglo-Saxon Lyminge – why the village is so significant
    • Who was Ethelburga?
    • Why is Lyminge Parish Church important?
    • Excavating Queen Ethelburga’s Church
    • Uncovering the history of the church in Lyminge
    • Lyminge is unique!
    • What’s in a name – where does the name Lyminge come from?
    • Angles, Saxons and Anglo-Saxons: Ethnic identities in southern Britain in the 5th-9th Centuries AD
    • Further reading on Anglo-Saxon Lyminge
    • The Stones of Lyminge
  • THE ROYAL SAXON WAY
    • The churches of the Royal Saxon Way
    • The Royal Saxon Women of the Royal Saxon Way
  • NEW ART IN LYMINGE
    • ‘Eternal Source’
    • ‘Two Saints’
    • ‘Monument to Ethelburga’
    • ‘The Ethelburga Quilt’
  • CONTACT US
  • DONATE
  • PRINTS OF QUEEN ETHELBURGA’S CHURCH FOR SALE

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