LINDISFARNE, ENGLAND—The Telegraph stories that prayer beads have been uncovered at Lindisfarne, an island off the coast of northeast England often known as a middle of Christianity as early because the seventh century A.D. The beads, produced from salmon vertebrae within the eighth or ninth century, had been discovered clustered across the neck of the stays of a person thought to have been a monk. “We consider the grand ceremonial facet of early medieval life within the monasteries and nice works just like the Lindisfarne Gospels,” mentioned David Petts of Durham College. “However what we’ve received right here is one thing which talks to a way more private facet of early Christianity.” Lisa Westcott Wilkins of DigVentures added that the modified fish bones are the one artifact discovered thus far in a grave on the so-called Holy Island. To examine a coastal fortress close to Lindisfarne, go to “Letter from England: Stronghold of the Kings within the North.”
