dried them with their fur. The most likely location for this event is Horse Castle bay at the base of the Kirk Hill. Death Shortly after the death of Æbbe, and as foretold in prophecy by a monk named Adamnan, in 683 the monastery burned down. The monastic site was abandoned, and by the first half of the 8th century, as Bede confirms, the site was deserted. The early work of Æbbe in establishing the Christian religion in south-east Scotland was not forgotten, and in a book written about c. 1200 by the monks of Coldingham, they tell of many pilgrims visiting the Kirk Hill and the spring at Well Mouth, located at the top of the beach now called Horse Castle Bay. St. Æbbe's feast day is celebrated on August 25. Archeology The remains of a possible monastery at Coldingham was discovered near Coldingham Priory (a historical house for Benedictine monks), according to the announcement on March 8, 2019, by DigVentures, a U.K.-based group led by archaeologists and supported by crowdfunding. See also Coldingham Priory References Sources https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-47495826 External links St. Abbs Community Website St. Abbs Community Website Coldingham historical records 610s births 683 deaths Anglo-Saxon royalty Northumbrian saints Anglo-Saxon abbesses 7th-century Christian saints Royal House of Northumbria 7th-century English nuns 7th-century Scottish people 7th-century Scottish women People from Ebchester People from Berwickshire