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.
With the better weather this week, the work of back-filling the site is proceeding apace. The great spoil heaps have been reduced and they are being used to fill the area that was dug over the course of the summer. The type 3 aggregate sub-base for the new path has now been laid over the … Continue reading Back-filling continues
As the autumn leaves start to fall on the foundations of Ethelburga's church, we are slowly beginning the process of restoring the churchyard following the end of the dig and the start of the next phase of the project. The viewing platform has now been dismantled. Our contractors, Astral, will return to site on Monday … Continue reading Restoring the dig site
Nice though the brick path revealed yesterday appeared to be, on closer examination it was not in great shape. Many of the bricks were cracked and shattered, and clearly they had not done a good job although a lot of effort had gone into laying them. We believe that the bricks were laid in the … Continue reading Day 8 – The Anglo-Saxon church begins to take shape
At the start of our second week, it was good to see a steady flow of visitors to our viewing platform over the course of the day. We have continued machining off the tarmac paths and this surface has now largely been removed. By the Memorial Garden, there is no make-up under the path and … Continue reading Day 7 – Anglo-Saxon masonry is revealed
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
Visitors to the church over the past few days will already know that the normal footway approaching the church from the main gate on Church Road, opposite Well House, is now closed for safety reasons. Access to the churchyard is now via the footpath HE54 which runs between the churchyard boundary wall and the private … Continue reading Footpath to the church
Welcome to the Lyminge Pathways to the Past blog. Thank you for joining us! The Project will progress over the next two years - or more - and is an exciting combination of activities that will include: Re-excavating the remains of what we believe is a very early Anglo-Saxon church. These were first uncovered in … Continue reading The Journey Begins
Pathways to the Past 