The site of a 9th-century monastic cell, these caves are the earliest intact domestic dwelling in the UK from the Anglo-Saxon period.
Anchor Church is a series of rock-cut dwellings in a sandstone cliff next to a backwater of the River Trent near Ingleby, Derbyshire.
In 2020, Professor Ed Simons of the Royal Agricultural University was able to establish the long-held local belief that they were the site of a 9th century monastic cell. The caves represent the earliest intact domestic dwelling from the Anglo-Saxon period in the UK. The caves were likely constructed (or possibly enlarged) for the deposed Northumbrian King Eardwulf, who died around 830CE.
Near Ingleby
Ingleby
Derbyshire
