*Some remains: fragments of incised slabs and 2 or 3 pier bases. Incised slabs in St Margaret's chapel with arcade bases built either on them or very nearly. Beneath the north east base of the crossing pillar is another earlier base, carefully unaltered.
*At a short distance from the abbey (WHITE).
(NB recent archaeological reports say there is nothing earlier than 1200 on this site).
These canons were removed by the king (HOPE, CLARK), for their misconduct (WHITE).
They lasted until *1197 when the site was given to the Premonstratensians for an Abbey (WILLIS).
They were expelled between *1175 and 1185 (CLARK).
They lasted until around *1180 (KNOWLES) *1184 (C/WC).
The canons were dismissed for hunting in the king's forest (not necessarily wooded) (PREMONS). The prior returned to a hermit's life at La Magdalen.
The area was desolate for an unknown period (WARD).
Big stones were found in Mick Wagstaff’s ditch (my notes, undated but probably from the 1980s, and the ditch is not identified). (Mick farmed Abbey Farm, the land of which, at that time, largely surrounded the current abbey site).