"Archaeologists working beside the ruins of Selja Monastery - a major medieval pilgrimage site on the island of Selja, off Norway's western coast - have uncovered the remains of a previously undocumented stone structure just metres from the monastic complex. The discovery, made within the first days of a new research excavation, could add a fresh chapter to what scholars know about daily life and activity on the island during the monastic period."
"Selja has attracted archaeological attention for more than two centuries. The island's medieval remains are well known: the monastery ruins, the former bishop's seat, and the broader pilgrimage setting connected with the cult of St. Sunniva. Yet the new building suggests there are still substantial gaps in what has been mapped and understood about how the monastic complex functioned as a lived-in, worked-in landscape rather than a single monumental ruin."
Archaeologists uncovered masonry and flagstone flooring belonging to an unrecorded stone building a few metres from Selja Monastery on Selja island off Norway's western coast. The structure was exposed within the first days of a targeted excavation carried out by Regin Meyer and Dag-Øyvind Engtrø Solem of the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU). Construction features suggest a High Middle Ages date (circa 1130–1350), a period of ecclesiastical growth, pilgrimage increase, and monastic integration into regional economies. The find indicates remaining gaps in site mapping and promises new information about daily life and functional landscape use around the monastic complex.
Read at Medievalists.net
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