The Norse destruction of Coldingham in 870 gave rise to the hagiographic tradition of St Ebba and her nuns disfiguring themselves to preserve chastity, one of the most dramatic accounts of Viking monastic violence.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Berwickshire