The Appleby Archaeology Group will hear about the early monastic archaeology of Lindisfarne at their next meeting.

The first monastery at Lindisfarne was started by a monk called Aidan, in 635 AD.' 'He built it for Oswald, the Saxon king of Northumbria, who had become a Christian.' 'Early monasteries weren't ...

Holy Island is home to the ruins of Lindisfarne Priory, the restored Lindisfarne Castle, the stunning Gertrude Jeykll gardens ...

and the origin of the Lindisfarne Gospels. The island was also a target for Viking raids in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. Despite nothing remaining above ground of the Northumbrian monastery ...

Holy Island, or Lindisfarne, is a tidal island off ... Despite nothing remaining above ground of the Northumbrian monastery, the ruins of the Norman/medieval priory that succeeded it and a ...