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General view from E.

SC 1741378

Description General view from E.

Date 24/5/1999

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 1741378

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 46671 CN

Scope and Content Old Melrose, Roxburghshire The pagan Angles of Northumbria were converted to Christianity by Irish monks led by Aidan and sent from Iona to Lindisfarne in about 635 AD. This was the period when the Angles extended their control northwards to the Firth of Forth. Old Melrose was one of the monasteries founded during the three decades of Irish dominance. As Bede ( in his 'Ecclesiastical History', completed in 731 AD) described it, it was on an inland promontory 'almost enclosed by the winding of the River Tweed'. Traces remain of the vallum bank at the neck of the promontory. The vallum or rampart formed the enclosure around the monastery, representing its spiritual and physical boundary. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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