Ask anyone what they know about Bamburgh and chances are they'll point you towards the magnificent castle or the stunning beach, which has been named among the best in Europe.
However, there's something else in Bamburgh that doesn't get nearly as much attention, though it's arguably as fascinating - and it's just been commended with a national award. Back in 1999, archaeologists began to uncover an Anglo-Saxon cemetery with 120 skeletons from the Bowl Hole burial ground in sand dunes close to Bamburgh Castle.
The village was significant during Anglo Saxon Britain, and capital of the most powerful British Kingdom, Northumbria, with people travelling from as far afield as Northern Africa and Scandinavia to visit, live and work. King Oswald called St. Aidan to Bamburgh in the 7th century and he founded his first church here, without which there would be no St Cuthbert or the Lindisfarne Gospels.
