In the community of Northumberland in the United Kingdom, a small, community-based archaeology group announced the discovery of a 700-year-old Christian chapel located near a medieval manor known as Aldensheles in January.
The Coquetdale Community Archaeology (CCA) group, with a membership of about 100 people chaired by David Jones, told The Northumberland Gazette, “To date, we have worked on a 14th-century building that was probably a farmhouse, a grain-drying kiln and a set of much-damaged medieval remains that had been repurposed in the 17th century, probably for stock management.”
He added, “Every year we found items that did not belong in an upland farming community. Typically these were blocks of decorated stone that were almost certainly ecclesiastical in origin. Some of them were too large to have come far. In 2022 we found a fragment of coloured glass (known as flashed ruby) that had almost certainly been imported from mainland Europe – quite possibly Normandy.”
It was at this point the group began pursuing leads on the location of a chapel. “Through lots of archive research we discovered that the site we were studying had been on a medieval manor called Aldensheles, and that there had been a chapel on that manor in the early 14th century.” NOTE: This is borrowed
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