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.
Over the past two weeks, our contractors have been working hard to finish off the paths and tidy up where spoil heaps had been left following the dig last summer. The spoil heaps have now been levelled and the spoil spread in a number of places in the churchyard to even up ground levels. Work … Continue reading Continuing work in the church yard
Work has continued preparing the paths in the church yard for the new surface. It is necessary to dig out all the old paths first so we can lay a sub-base of aggregate and then lay the new resin-bound surface on top. Taking out the old path by the main entrance, we discovered what appears … Continue reading Further discoveries in the church yard
We are delighted to announce that our contractors have now been able to return to work in the church yard and yesterday began the work of finishing off laying the new paths, including the new path to the north door providing step-free access. This work will also include removing the spoil heaps that remain following … Continue reading Work begins again in the church yard
Despite the current lock-down, we are still able to carry on with some work streams for the project. Yesterday, Gabor Thomas and I had a video conference with the team at the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture (CSCC) at the University of York who will be preparing for us the digital reconstructions … Continue reading Exploring how our church has changed through time
Followers of this blog who have delved into the list of suggested reading may have downloaded my paper 'Antiquarians, Victorian Parsons and Re-writing the Past: How Lyminge Parish Church acquired an invented dedication', which was published in Archaeologia Cantiana, the journal of the Kent Archaeological Society, in 2017. This explores how the Rector of Lyminge … Continue reading Discovering St Eadburh of Lyminge
In 1885, workmen carrying out work in the chancel of St Mary and St Eanswythe, Folkestone, discovered a lead casket containing a collection of bones. At the time, it was thought that these could be the relics of St Eanswythe, patronal saint of Folkestone and niece of our own Queen Ethelburga in Lyminge. But there … Continue reading Eanswythe found!
This is a reminder that there will be a public talk about last summer's dig to excavate the 7th Century church in Lyminge, hosted by the Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust, tomorrow evening Thursday 16 January 2020. The talk is entitled: Invention and imagination: re-interpreting the early masonry church uncovered in Lyminge during 2019 The … Continue reading Reminder about the next talk on the dig
The Friends of Canterbury Archaeological Trust have published their talk schedule for the new year. This confirms the time and venue for my next talk: Invention and imagination: re-interpreting the early masonry church uncovered in Lyminge during 2019 The talk will be at 7pm on Thursday 16 January 2020 in Room Newton NG07 at Christ … Continue reading Update on the next talk about the excavation at Lyminge
Many thanks to the residents of Etchinghill who turned out on a dismal November morning to here a talk in the village hall on “Ethelburga’s legacy: the exceptional discoveries in the churchyard at Lyminge during the summer of 2019”. So many people came along it was necessary to put out extra chairs; it was great … Continue reading Capacity crowd at Etchinghill
Particularly if you were not able to attend Gabor's end of dig talk on 31 August, there will be a number of opportunities to catch up on the findings from the dig over the coming months. I will be giving an illustrated talk at Etchinghill Open House, in the village hall, on 25 November, entitled … Continue reading Forthcoming talks about the dig
