The head and shoulders of two late medieval alabaster effigies lying beside one another on the top of a chest tomb, inside a church. Both press their palms together in front of their torso, as if in prayer. The foreground figure is that of a woman wearing a large horned headdress, cloak, and gown; that in the background is of a man in armour.

Work in Progress: Medieval Mortuary Monuments

In the New Year, I normally turn my attention to widely-known fairy-and folk-fairy-tales, often focusing on the late Medieval and … More

#PMAC22 FAQs ‘From Ancestors to Phantoms and Fairies: Re-examining Ritual Landscapes’

I’ve scheduled this post to follow my Twitter paper for the Post-Medieval Archaeology Congress (#PMAC22): ‘From Ancestors to Phantoms and Fairies: Re-examining … More

#PMAC ‘From Ancestors to Phantoms & Fairies: Re-examining Ritual Landscapes’

This morning, I presented my @SPMA #PMAC22 Twitter paper – though this didn’t quite go to plan (having intended to … More

Old Horizons: Returning to Ritual Landscapes

I’ve conducted little landscape work over the past decade (since the article I published in 2012-13).* This discussed the reuse … More

Norfolk ‘Merchant’s House’: Part One

Introduction This long-overdue post will be one of a series providing a brief outline of findings from a rural Early … More

Staunton Harold: Rebellious Royalist High-Church Chapel

Introduction I mentioned in the preceding post that about a month ago I revisited a nearby chapel, which given the … More

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