About Glastonbury
Glastonbury was initially inhabited by stone age farmers. In 1892 the iron-age village near Glastonbury, now known as Glastonbury Lake Village, was discovered by a young medical student called Arthur Bulleid. The village was first constructed in approximately 250 B.C. by creating a base of timber and clay on which roundhouses were build. The village was abandoned about 50 B.C. possibly due to rising water levels.
Glastonbury is thought to have started as a small settlement which grew into a town after the Abbey was founded in the 7th century by the Saxons. The original stone church was enlarged in the 10th century by St. Dunstan who became the Abbot of Glastonbury and then the Archbishop of Canterbury in 960.
After the invasion and conquest of England by the Normans in 1066, the church was bettered by the addition of magnificent buildings. In 1086, when the Domesday Book was commission to provide records and a census of life in England, Glastonbury Abbey was the richest monastery in the country.
In 1184, the Abbey was destroyed by fire and reconstruction commenced almost immediately with the Lady Chapel, including the well, being consecrated in 1186. There is a school of thought that believes that in order to raise extra funds from pilgrims to rebuild the Abbey, the monks dug for the remains of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere and the bones from two bodies were raised from a deep grave in the cemetery on the south side of the Lady Chapel. The find is not considered to be authentic.
Read the rest of the article here: https://scvincent.com/2019/04/17/glastonbury-and-the-last-abbot-of-glastonbury-roberta-eaton/
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Thanks for coming over, Robbie, and sharing a bit about the origins of your story 🙂
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Your blog inspires me to write about the amazing historical places in England, Sue. I learn a lot from your blog and having an ever growing list of places to visit.
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Thank you, Robbie. There is an awful lot on Glastonbury on the blog if you wander over to the search bar 😉
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Thank you, Sue.
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You are quite the multi-faceted author
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Thank you, Annette. It probably goes with my hyperactivity.
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Just came from there. An excellent post!
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Thank you, Mae. This story was developed from a piece I cut out of Through the Nethergate as part of the killing your darlings process. It was a small piece in the book and I wrote it up into a stand alone story.
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Nice to hear the history, less gruesome than your murder!
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It’s awful to think that the poor Abbot was hanged, drawn and quartered. A most horrific way to die. .
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you mean that actually did happen? I thought it was fiction … heard quite a few died that way.
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Oh yes, the Abbot was accused of treason and that was the punishment at the time. My monk had a better death than that.
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