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Archaeologists discover industrial-scale tannery at monastic site

25/10/2021
Archaeologists discover industrial-scale tannery at monastic site

Researchers working at the site of a former monastery in Yorkshire have uncovered an industrial scale tannery at the site.

Fountains Abbey was a large monastery that Cistercian monks built just outside the city of Ripon in 1132. It flourished for more than 400 years before Henry VIII dissolved monasteries in England, Wales and Ireland.

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