Last chance for an incredible trip-of-a-lifetime photo tour to Italy

Edit Topix 19 Sep 2015
The photo in this story is of the Philosophical Hall, part of the library of the massive Strahov Monastery in the hills above Prague in the Czech Republic which I just got around to processing. Strahov Monastery was founded in 1143, and is a Premonstratensian abbey.... ....

Can the cloning saxifrage outwit our herbicides?

Edit The Guardian 18 Jun 2015
Thorsgill Beck, Teesdale To 16th century travellers meadow saxifrage would have been unremarkable, today it is a window into a lost landscape. Five centuries ago the White Canons, who worshipped in the Premonstratensian abbey, whose ruins sit high above the bend in the Tees at Egglestone, would have been familiar with the view that appeared as we crossed the pack-horse bridge ... By July the seeds are set and the plant almost disappears ... ....

Leiston Abbey dig: 'Earspoon' and evidence of 'mill' uncovered

Edit BBC News 28 Dec 2014
Archaeologists have revealed a dig at an abbey ruin unearthed a medieval "earspoon" and tweezers suggesting monks indulged in personal grooming. Ninety people paid to take part in the Dig Ventures two-week excavation at Leiston Abbey, Suffolk ... Participants searched for artefacts and information about the Premonstratensian abbey, which was founded at nearby Minsmere in 1182 before moving to Leiston in 1363 ... Ms Evans said ... ....

Leiston Abbey dig unearths 'poker chip' and curse tablet

Edit BBC News 19 Jul 2014
An archaeological dig at an abbey ruins in Suffolk has unearthed a medieval 'poker chip' and a curse tablet. Ninety people paid to take part in a two-week excavation at Leiston Abbey ... Participants searched for artefacts and information about the Premonstratensian abbey, which was founded on the site in 1182 with the current ruined buildings dating from 1363. Industrial remains ... Brendon Wilkins, project director, said ... ....

Letter from Cyprus: across the divide

Edit The Guardian 22 Apr 2014
Two elderly residents reminisce about the villages they had to leave when the island split into Turkish and Greek enclaves. Arches of Bellapais Abbey, built in the 13th century. Photograph. Alamy ... the 13th-century abbey, built on a cliff overlooking the northern coast of Cyprus to house the Catholic monks of the Premonstratensian order, who had arrived with the island's Frankish rulers in the 12th century ... It was now "on our side" ... ....
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