Castle on Holy Island Size:S: 36 x 28cm embracing the Atrebates of Hampshire

embracing the Atrebates of Hampshire and probably the Dobunni of Gloucestershire

where Arthur Thistlewood an his fellow conspirators met to plot the assassination of the British Cabinet in 1820

It was restored by apprentices at the Kidbrooke Central Repair Depot of the Post Office

Presented under the guise of a paper presented by the Ethnological Society

Castle on Holy Island Size:S: 36 x 28cm embracing the Atrebates of Hampshire'Castle on Holy Island, Northumberland', 1822. View of Lindisfarne Castle on the Northumbrian coast. The island, also known as Holy Island, was the site of a monastery founded by St Aidan in c635. The castle dates from the 16th century. From A Voyage Around Great Britain Undertaken between the Years 1814 and 1825 by William Daniell.