A Portable altar
A Gaming piece
The Body of a living person built into the masonry
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The body of a living person built into the masonry

Around 1800 the post medieval Church tower fell down exposing medieval foundations which included a female skeleton in what had been a built-up cavity. This may have been a punishment in the Middle Ages to an erring nun.

Walter Scott, knowing of this exposure included the episode in his extensive poem Marmion. His nun was called 'Constance de Beverley' and the action was made to take place at the Priory on Lindisfarne.

From that dire dungeon, place of doom, Of execution too, and tomb, Paced forth the judges three; Sorrow it were, and shame to tell The butcher-work that there befell, When they had glided from the cell Of sin and misery (Marmion by Walter Scott)

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