由社区资助的考古发掘揭示了一座“非常重要”的六世纪修道院，同时也改写了利斯莫尔岛的历史。
对于这个仅有190名居民的苏格兰岛屿上的居民来说，历史从未远离他们。
Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore To the residents of the Scottish island of Lismore, population 190, history is never very far away.
这个位于阿盖尔郡奥班附近的小岛上没有商店，甚至没有酒吧——如果岛民想聚在一起喝咖啡，唯一的地方就是那个充满活力的盖尔文化中心，那里记录了岛上几个世纪以来的社区生活。
The tiny island near Oban in Argyll has no row of shops or even a pub – if islanders want to meet for a coffee, the only place to do so is in the lively Gaelic heritage centre that records the many centuries of community life on the island.
据文献记载，这个宁静的地方在公元六世纪曾是一个修道院所在地，当时来自爱尔兰的传教士开始进入不列颠北部传播基督教。
This quiet place, documentary evidence records, was home to a monastic settlement in the sixth century AD, when missionaries from Ireland were first moving into northern Britain to spread Christianity.
然而，除了几块早期的雕刻十字架碎片外，几乎没有任何关于这一历史时期的遗迹可看。
But apart from a few fragments of an early carved cross, there was almost nothing to see from this period of history.