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Message from Oswestry Borderland Archaeolical Group
This talk will be of particular interest to anyone involved in St. John the Baptist church and the RXIT local history group
Oswestry & Border History & Archaeology Group
Our next meeting is at the Methodist Church Hall, Castle Street SY11 1LFFriday 14th June at 7.30 pm
'Interpreting Medieval Anchorite Cells in Shropshire: an archaeological appoach'
With Dr Victoria Yuskaitis, FHEA
Dr Yuskaitis's research focuses on medieval religious recluses called anchorites, men and women, who withdrew from the world as much as was practicable, to devote their life, alone, to prayer and contemplation.The talk will consider the surviving archaeology of examples from Shropshire including at St Martin's and (specifically the connection to the anchorite squint/cell at Ellesmere), Ruyton-XI-Towns, Acton Burnell, Great Ness, Stanton-on-Hine-Heath, Much Wenlock, and Church Preen
Entry:Visitors £5 Members £2
