A new website (in English and Dutch) has just opened covering the Ename
974 project in Belgium
 
http://www.Ename974.org
 
The small (former abbey) town Ename lies across the sceldt river from
Oudenaarde. It was the site of a 10th century Ottonian border
fortress/palace with attached trading settlement. In the C11 it was
sacked by the count of Flanders and an abbey built to demilitarise it.
The 8 hectare abbey excavation site (directed by Dirk Callebaut) has now
been preserved as an archaeological park with an innovative computerised
video system which projects reconstructions onto the foundations
(Timeframes- note this system is closed in the winter months). A new
museum, Provinciaal Museum t'Ename, has also opened with computer
reconstructions of the site in order to interpret the fort and abbey
site, town, with its Romanesque St Laurentius church, and the historic
wood of Ename. This really is a stunning site and interpretative
project. It is run by the provincial government and the state excavtion
service. A Brtish designer John Sunderland has played a key role in the
museum design. Enough English material (and this will increase) is
provided for non-Dutch speakers to follow what is going on.
 
 
Paul Courtney, Leicester UK