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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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Day 31 – Broadening our investigations

August 13, 2019August 14, 2019 ~ geopaethas ~ 3 Comments

The start of Week 6 was grey and gloomy and it was necessary to dodge rain through the day.  However, we have continued to work on the burials in the chancel and also have now begun to expand the trench by the War Memorial.  We have already found sealed middle Saxon pottery in this area … Continue reading Day 31 – Broadening our investigations

Day 30 – Round-up on a revelatory 5 weeks of digging

August 11, 2019June 16, 2020 ~ geopaethas ~ 3 Comments

Because of the bad weather over night, Day 29 was a wash-out so far as digging was concerned.  We did however manage to get in our standard half day on Saturday, when we continued with excavating the burials in the chancel of the Anglo-Saxon church.  At the moment, we have no reason to think these … Continue reading Day 30 – Round-up on a revelatory 5 weeks of digging

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

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