Monument To St Cuthbert Unveiled At Lindisfarne Monastery. A new monument to St Cuthbert - one of Britain’s holiest of saints - has been unveiled at the Lindisfarne monastery in Northumberland. The ...

In June of 793, Viking raiders attacked the monastery on Lindisfarne, a sacred center of Christian learning in northern ...

It is a tiny place, far from the beaten paths of modern England, altogether beautiful and obscure. But it is deep in the religious culture of the English-speaking peoples. This is the little island of ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found a new clue in their attempts to unravel a 1,000-year-old mystery from early English Christianity. With the help of crowdfunding, experts have been digging on Lindisfarne, off ...

In the year 633, the pagan King Penda of Mercia invaded the kingdom of Northumbria in northern England, which had become Christian a short time before. In the same year the saintly king Edwin of ...

Archaeologists digging on Lindisfarne have found a new clue in their attempts to unravel a 1,000-year-old mystery from early English Christianity. A crowd-funded project off the Northumberland coast ...

A major dig is to take place on Holy Island to find the monastery where the Lindisfarne Gospels were made. It follows new research by archaeology lecturer Dr David Petts of Durham University who has ...

A team of volunteers have discovered a rare game piece believed to date back to one of the first Viking raids on the Island of Lindisfarne some 1,200 years ago. The tiny worked glass is adorned with a ...

David Petts does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

This ornate, gumdrop-shaped glass piece was part of a board game with Roman roots. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. What looks ...