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Today, the town of Crowland in England has ruins from an old abbey. But local stories say long ago there was a small hut used by a guy named Guthlac that lived there alone in prayer. Guthlac died in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While searching for clues about a cult linked with a nobleman-turned-hermit, archaeologists discovered ...

On this day we commemorate Guthlac, an Anglo-Saxon saint who lived as a hermit in the fens of East Anglia in the early 8th century. --J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, ...

Archaeologists digging through a field in Lincolnshire, England, may have found a 1,300-year-old hermitage on the site of a much more ancient henge. The archaeological team found evidence for a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient henge near the ruins of a medieval abbey in Lincolnshire. Material including pottery, two bone combs and fragments of glass were found, along with ...

When Saint Guthlac died in 714 A.D., he was already famous for his choice to give up a “life of riches” for years of solitude as a Christian monk. More than a decade earlier, he had denounced his ...

Archaeologists have accidentally unearthed a monumental prehistoric henge in Crowland, Lincolnshire. The researchers were actually undertaking excavations in the area to learn more about an ...

17:50, Tue, Apr 9, 2024 Updated: 17:56, Tue, Apr 9, 2024 Archaeologists digging in an empty stretch of Lincolnshire countryside have found a 1,300-year-old hermitage on the site of an even older henge ...

Material including pottery, two bone combs and fragments of glass were found, along with the remains of a 12th Century hall and chapel. The discovery was made in Anchor Church Field in the area of ...

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