From Tribal Centre to Royal Monastery: Excavations at Lyminge, Kent, 2007-2015

This volume provides an authoritative account of research excavations at Lyminge, Kent, conducted by the University of Reading in collaboration with the Canterbury Archaeological Trust and Kent Archaeological Society, 2008–2015. The aim of the project was to harness the archaeological potential of Lyminge – one of the earliest documented monastic establishments in Anglo-Saxon Kent – to offer new perspectives on the role played by monasteries in the Christianisation of early medieval peoples...