page_title: Scolland
section_title: The Bayeux Tapestry
hierarchical_section_title: Scolland / Historical attestation / The Bayeux Tapestry
caption_attribution_description: English: Bayeux Tapestry Scene 16
context_page_description: Scolland of Canterbury also known as Scotland was the abbot of St Augustine's Abbey during the Norman conquest of England.
  He was an aid of Lanfranc, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
  He conducted building works at his abbey and promoted the veneration of Augustine in Canterbury.
context_section_description: The abbot  had been head monk in the scriptorium of Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel and carried much of the techniques developed in France to Canterbury. as well as importing a number of manuscripts from France.
  Howard B. Clarke has proposed that Scolland was the designer of the tapestry, because of his previous position as head of the scriptorium at Mont Saint-Michel, his travels to Trajan's Column, and his connections to Wadard and Vital, two individuals identified in the tapestry.
  Historian Richard Gameson  has suggested that a monk depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry and pointing at the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel is Abbot Scolland.
caption: Bayeux Tapestry possibly showing Scolland, top right corner.
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