Archaeologists have located a hidden chapel at the site of an abbey where the date of the country’s Easter celebrations were first set.A team from English Heritage discovered the remains at Whitby Abbey, in North Yorkshire, as part of a 20 year research project.In 664 it was the venue for the Synod of Whitby, at which a ruling – still in place – was made that Easter at the time marked in the Roman tradition, rather than the Celtic one.

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