A range of early Christian and Anglo Saxon artefacts will go on display at Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island, English Heritage has announced.
Britain's first known prayer bead necklace, one of the earliest surviving examples of knitting found in Europe, and a recently discovered Anglo-Saxon glass gaming counter are just a few of the treasures making their first appearance at Lindisfarne Priory from this weekend. The new in Northumberland museum display explores the island as one of the most important centres of early English Christianity and its fate at the hands of Viking Raids.
There will also be a new monument in the priory ruins which marks the spot of the original shrine to St. Cuthbert, northern England's most revered saint. Once one of the most important places in Anglo-Saxon England, Lindisfarne's close links to the Northumbrian kings and its connection to St Cuthbert brought great wealth to the monastery.
