Island Historical Society Finds Lost Medieval Monastery

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA small historical society on a Scottish island has found one of the earliest centers of Christian teaching in the British Isles, the Good News Network reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd like to thank the society for a deliverable that came in nine years late and several centuries early.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe island is Lismore. It had a hundred and ninety residents at the last census, and the society started digging in two thousand sixteen.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNine years, one modest question, and a hundred and ninety residents who all now say 'we' about a monastery.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt did. A big monastery, with six burials dated between six hundred fifty and one thousand forty, and carved stone cross fragments around them.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the workers there shaped precious metals and carved designs on practice pieces. Somebody practiced first. I find that so reassuring.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorProfessor Gordon Noble of the University of Aberdeen says for centuries it was known mainly from written records and local tradition.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the legend turned out to be accurate, and the people who believed it were right the whole time. Hank, are you okay?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'm fine. Nine years, one island, a trowel, and now they sit beside Iona. It's just the yew wood. They worked yew wood. I'm fine.