View SSW of the focal grave within an Early Christian monastic enclosure on Beacon Hill, Lundy Island, Devon, UK: 4, C5th-6th inscribed stones rear R.
View SSW of the focal grave within an Early Christian monastic enclosure on Beacon Hill, Lundy Island, Devon, UK: four C5th-6th AD inscribed stones are displayed beside the curving enclosure bank to the rear. The cemetery was excavated by the late Charles Thomas in 1969. He suggested that the upright granite slabs surrounding a long cist formed the founder's grave or cella memoriae of an Early Christian saint, possibly King Brychan who became St Nectan whose remains were removed to Hartland on the mainland. The inscribed & cross-inscribed stones placed by the bank came from separate locations close by, they bear the names: OPTIMI, POTITI, RESTEUTA (RESTEVTAE) & ...TIGERNI. There were at least 100 undated long cist graves of Early Christian character aligned E-W in the cemetery.
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Location: Beacon Hill Cemetery, Lundy Island, North Devon, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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