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Maidstone, Kent: Kent Archaeological Society, 1988. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing in d/w. Profusely illustrated with photographs and line-drawings. A scholarly, well-researched and authoritative study of excavations of St Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury, Kent. The details of the finds include, pottery, stonework, window glass, floor tiles, roof tiles, lead and ironwork, and more. The abbey was a Benedictine monastery founded by St Augustine around 597 which functioned as a monastery until its dissolution in 1538 during the English Reformation. St Augustine arrived in Anglo-Saxon England in 597, having been sent by a missionary-minded Pope Gregory 1 to convert the Anglo-Saxons. The King of Kent at this time was Ethelbert and, although he worshipped in a pagan temple, his queen, Bertha, was a Christian. King Ethelbert gave St Augustine a grant of land and the wooden temple. The monastery was founded in 598 and a church of solid masonry was completed and consecrated in 613. With extensive…
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St.Augustine's Abbey (Kent Archaeological Society) Hardcover - 1988
by David Sherlock; H. Woods
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- Title St.Augustine's Abbey (Kent Archaeological Society)
- Author David Sherlock; H. Woods
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Kent Archaeological Society, Maidstone, Kent
- Date April 1988
- ISBN 9780906746110
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St Augustine's Abbey: Report On Excavations 1960-78 (FINE COPY OF HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING IN DUSTWRAPPER)
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St.Augustine's Abbey: Report on Excavations, 1960-78
by D.Sherlock et al
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Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society, 1988 The origins of the monastic foundation, a grant of land to the papal missionary St.Augustine, by King Aethelberht of Kent, is well recorded and elements of the first church of Srs.Peter and Paul, begun soon after 597, have been identified and are still visible..... 366pp illustrated in colour and monotone.
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