Aberlady digs deep and reveals exciting heritage

An ambitious community project exploring Aberlady’s early heritage and links with Christian history has begun to bear fruit, with the unveiling of new information boards at the village’s kirkyard.

Five panels depicting key scenes linking the village’s early Christian links with Iona and Lindisfarne and the later medieval harbour, only recently discovered by local history society members, have been erected by Aberlady Conservation and History Society in the kirkyard overlooking Aberlady Bay.

The second stage of the project, which has already commenced, involves the reconstruction of an intricately carved eighth-century Christian high cross, which would have stood on the high ground of the present kirkyard overlooking Aberlady Bay when Aberlady was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, and may have been an important monastic foundation with links to both Iona and Lindisfarne.

• Full story at the East Lothian Courier.

• Posted in Edinburgh + East, History