Excavations on Scottish island of Lismore shed light on sixth-century monastery
Community-funded digs are described as 'hugely exciting' and as rewriting the story of the island.
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Community-funded archaeological excavations on the Scottish island of Lismore, near Oban in Argyll, have produced finds described as 'hugely exciting' that shed light on the spread of Christianity.
Documentary evidence records a monastic settlement on the island in the sixth century AD, when missionaries from Ireland were first moving into northern Britain. Apart from a few fragments of an early carved cross, however, almost nothing from that period was visible. The island has a population of 190, and its Gaelic heritage centre records many centuries of community life.
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