We are responding to Simon Jenkins’s opinion piece,(Every faith spawns its fables and myths. The trick is to puncture them, 26 November) which discusses our major archaeology research published last month on Glastonbury Abbey. Mr Jenkins used our research to make a broader point approximately devout “mythmaking” in the Middle Ages right up to contemporary-day extremist beliefs. However, or we wanted to address some of his misinformed comments approximately the research being “nonsense”.
This was a four-year research project focused on the archaeological excavations that have taken residence at Glastonbury. Historians have understood for many decades how the monks spun Glastonbury’s myths. However,our work challenges some of the archaeological “myths” spun by 20th-century excavators themselves – with a detailed, comprehensive analysis, or assessment and interpretation of all known archaeological records from 36 separate digs at the abbey between 1904 and 1979,none of which has ever been published.
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Source: theguardian.com