A miniature model of what Cirencester Abbey may have looked like is being built from Lego. There isn't much left of the original building after the whole lot was torn down by Henry VIII in 1539.

2008 sees the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Cirencester Excavation in December 1958. We unearth some of the stories behind the digs over the last half century... The CEC was formed at ...

The property in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, is known as Nutbeam Farm. The land it sits on was originally recorded as a monastic house owned by Lyre Abbey, a monastery in Normandy, France ...