Talk
21 Feb 2024 | 2.30pm | Rausing Building
£7 (including tea and cake)
SOLD OUT
Tony McAleavy will explain the significance of the remarkable archaeological discoveries made at Cowage Farm near Foxley in the 1970s and 1980s. This site helps us to understand how Malmesbury Abbey was endowed by the royal family of the West Saxons. Aldhelm was a royal prince and the son of King Centwine. The site at Foxley was almost certainly given to Aldhelm by his father and helped to transform Malmesbury into one of the wealthiest monasteries in England
Note: Doors open at 2.30pm. Talk starts at 3pm.