Photo: St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Standing Stones
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Two standing stones at the west end of the abbey church. These were found during the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon churches in the 1960s and they are something of a mystery. Used in the foundations of the west wall of the vestibule, they are made of stone not found in the Canterbury area. They may have been carried by glaciers or deliberately brought here, perhaps as part of a preshistoric monument. Another theory is that the larger stone was used by Augustine as a preaching cross.
Date: 11/18/07 12:17 PM
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