THE remains of the earliest monastery in the British Isles have been unveiled in Somerset. Excavations at Beckery, near Glastonbury, and radiocarbon dating of bodies in the monastic cemetery have shown it began in the 5th or early 6th Centuries AD, before Somerset was conquered by the Saxon kings of Wessex in the 7th Century.
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