Site Represents a site. Prim Media 204 Denomination Catholic Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building End Date 1310? Parish Anstruther Wester Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St Ethernan’s Priory, Isle of May Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived sacredlandscapesoffife Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource tt27@st-andrews.ac.uk Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 99 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.186409584479534,-2.557468413433526; Description An account of the resource The priory of May was founded by David I, sometime around the year 1140. It was dedicated to St Ethernan, and was affiliated to a mother house located at Reading in Berkshire. The monks were initially Cluniacs, followers of a reformed and stricter version of the Benedictine rule, before following the lead of their mother house and reverting back to the general Benedictine rule sometime after 1207. It is likely that the monks were attracted to the site on the Isle of May because it had an existing church and a connection to an important local saint. The excavation of the site in the 1990s found that there was already quite a substantial building on the site when monks arrived in the twelfth century, and that it was not until c.1250 that they constructed their own larger church. Of this church, the main survival today is the west wing, which was converted to secular use in the sixteenth-century. One other important discovery during the excavation was the grave of a young man dating from the early fourteenth century, which included a scallop shell placed in his mouth. This was a clear indication that the man, who had been buried in a prestigious location close to the high altar, had travelled to Santiago de Compostela on pilgrimage. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 16/06/2021 References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. (1) Heather F. James & Peter Yeoman, Excavations at St Ethernan’s Monastery, Isle of May, Fife 1992-1997 (Perth, Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee, 2008), (2) R. Anthony Lodge, Pittenweem Priory (Strathmartine Press, St Andrews, 2020) Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1140 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 09/26/2023 05:01:22 pm Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. St Ethernan’s Priory, Isle of May Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT