The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Verdicts of accidental death by drowning were recorded yesterday on the seven crewmen of the Scottish fishing boat Solway Harvester. The scallop dredger sank off the Isle of Man in January 2000. The victims included three teenagers from the village of the Isle of Whithorn, in Dumfries and Galloway. Coroner Michael Moyle said the precise reason for the sinking could not be known because of the conflicting...
Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Archaeologists have identified the remains of medieval bishops buried at Whithorn Priory in Galloway, Scotland, 600 years ago. The bones of the six bishops were discovered over 40 years ago, but have only just been identified using the latest techniques for scientific analysis of remains. Thought to have died between 1200 and 1360AD, the bishops were found during excavations at the priory between 1957...
Archaeonews (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Archaeologists have identified the remains of medieval bishops buried at Whithorn Priory in Galloway, Scotland, 600 years ago. The bones of the six bishops were discovered over 40 years ago, but have only just been identified using the latest techniques for scientific analysis of remains.[...] Source
idle speculations (Free subscription) | 17/12/2007
Skull of Bishop Henry (d. 1293), Augustinian abbot and bishop, most notable for holding the positions of Abbot of Holyrood [1236 - 1253 or1255] and Bishop of Galloway [1253–1293]. Archaeologists have successfully identified the remains of six medieval bishops of Whithorn who died between 1200-1360. The bones had been discovered during the 1957-67 excavation at Whithorn Priory but who they belonged...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 17/12/2007
Six bishops buried more than 600 years ago have been identified by archaeologists thanks to new techniques. Their bones were found during 1957-67 excavations at Whithorn Priory in Galloway. Their identities had been a mystery, but new research, funded by Historic Scotland, has helped to work out when they died, where they came from and even what they ate. Radiocarbon dating helped to identify the graves...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 16/12/2007
HE'S not in the best of health any more, but at least we know who he is. Bishop Henry of Whithorn, who presided over Scotland's "cradle of Christianity" for mo
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 16/12/2007
HE'S not in the best of health any more, but at least we know who he is. Bishop Henry of Whithorn, who presided over Scotland's "cradle of Christianity" for mo
Scotland on Sunday (Free subscription) | 16/12/2007
HE'S not in the best of health any more, but at least we know who he is. Bishop Henry of Whithorn, who presided over Scotland's "cradle of Christianity" for mo
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 26/08/2007
SOMETIME in the late fifth century a man and his daughter stood at Whithorn in south-west Scotland and made an engraving.
