A story which began 23 years ago when archaeologists began uncovering an Anglo-Saxon cemetery on the Northumbrian coast will come to a conclusion this weekend with a conference which looks back on what became a remarkable journey through history.
The two-day conference celebrates the Accessing Aidan/Bamburgh Bones project, which has created a public display and teaching resource around 120 skeletons from the Bowl Hole burial ground in sand dunes a few hundred metres from Bamburgh Castle. Excavations stretched across eight years as the 1,400-year-old cemetery, from when was Bamburgh was the royal capital of the ancient kingdom of Northumbria, was threatened by sea erosion.
Organisers of the event on Friday and Saturday at Bamburgh Pavilion and the King’s Hall say: “It is a celebration of everything that has been achieved.”
