In a lay-by by the side of the B6318 in rural Northumberland there stands an oak cross, which was installed in the 1930s. What is this monument doing in a roadside lay-by, just east of the site of Turret 25B on Hadrian’s Wall, one of the series of turrets and milecastles that protected the wildContinue reading “Heaven(field) is a place on Earth”
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Book launch: St Peter-on-the-Wall: Landscape and heritage on the Essex Coast
26 February 2024, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) In the mid-seventh century, St Cedd, who had been trained at Oswald’s foundation of Lindisfarne, undertook missionary work in the Kingdom of the East Saxons. He founded two monasteries, one at Tilbury and one at Bradwell on Sea. The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall,Continue reading “Book launch: St Peter-on-the-Wall: Landscape and heritage on the Essex Coast”
Oswald of Northumbria 