St Ebbs nook

The site at Ebbs nook is in danger of disappearing into the sea and English Heritage has placed the site on its register of monuments at risk.

They invited BBC Time Team to help unlock its secrets before it's too late.

Villagers had been finding bones around the site for a number of years, but the Time Team crew, including Phil Harding and team leader Mick Aston, discovered a series of baby burials near the chapel site, with the dig being halted when six were found.

From studies of the arrangement and position of the skeletons, it was believed that they were buried in that position as it was as close as possible to holy ground for babies who had not been baptised. At the end of the programme, a service was held to rebury the bones on the site.

The dig also discovered the remains of what was thought to be a 12th-century building, but beneath its foundations was the evidence of an earlier settlement, possibly the chapel dedicated to St Ebba. The arrangement of the stones was carefully monitored in the dig to produce a scale map of the chapel walls, and they were then re-covered. A few weeks later you could not really tell there had been a dig. The path in the photo was investigated and ancient skeletons found just below the grass!

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