Over the last few years, a Reading University archaeology team have been undertaking a dig to uncover Cookham Abbey. This was an eight century Anglo-Saxon monastery and is associated with the Mercian Queen Cynethryth, widow of King Offa (he of Offa’s Dyke fame). A Catenian group of 18 attended the site, guided by the Friends of Cookham Abbey – see https://www.cookhamabbey.org.uk/
