C-FAR - Carbon footprinting of archaeological research: Data collection methodology and interim report

Carbon Footprinting of Archaeology Research (C-FAR) focused on developing a method of determining the carbon footprint of university-led archaeological training expeditions.British Academ

Glaziers' Hollow, Delamere Forest, Cheshire: investigation and survey of a late medieval glassworking site

Archaeological survey and geophysical survey report.In 2023, a gradiometer survey was conducted over two small areas of a medieval glassworking site known as Glaziers’ Hollow in Delamere Forest primarily to help identify the precise location of excavations conducted there in 1935 and 1947. This survey forms part of a larger project aimed at furthering the understanding of this scheduled monument in response to its current presence on the Historic England Heritage at Risk register. Over two days in June and another two days in November, a small team conducted the gradiometry survey alongside a suite of other non-invasive survey techniques. Results showed a focused cluster of magnetic anomalies that corresponded closely to previously unrecorded earthworks visible on the ground, as well as more modern disturbances and anomalies likely to be the location of the historic excavations. The signature of the readings is somewhat inconclusive as to the specific identification of a glassworking furnace or furnaces, but do suggest glassworking and associated activity close by, although results may be influenced by the amount of disturbance and potential overburden at the site.Report contributors: B. Fitzpatrick, A. Foster, K. Dale, C. Lawton-Lay, J. Nichols, and M. Hawort

Introduction: stones in substance, space and time

Introduction to co-edited bookA triad of research themes – materiality, biography and landscape – provide the distinctive foci and parameters of the contributions to this book. The chapters explore a range of early medieval inscribed and sculpted stone monuments from Ireland (Ní Ghrádaigh and O’Leary), Britain (Gondek, Hall, Kirton and Williams) and Scandinavia (Back Danielsson and Crouwers). The chapters together show how these themes enrich and expand the interdisciplinary study of early medieval stone monuments, in particular revealing how a range of different inscribed and sculpted stones were central to the creation and recreation of identities and memories for early medieval individuals, families, households, religious and secular communities and kingdoms.This research was supported by the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant “Speaking with the Dead: Histories of Memory in Sacred Space" F00144BV

A Powerful Place Of Pictland : Interdisciplinary Perspectives On A Power Centre of the 4th to 6th Centuries AD

Many thanks to the students, staff and volunteers who have made Rhynie 2011–17 possible and to Rhynie Woman who have brought so much to the community element of the project. Fieldwork at Rhynie has been funded by the University of Aberdeen Development Trust, British Academy, Historic Environment Scotland, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service. The writing of this article was also supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award (RL-2016-069).Peer reviewedPostprin

The symbol carving process as a mnemonic manipulator of ‘deep’ genealogy in early medieval Scotland

Scotland’s corpus of early medieval carved stone monuments is a rich dataset for explorations of cultural connections, power and ideology. This article explores how meaning and significance might be interpreted from the reuse of prehistoric stone monuments in the Pictish period via close examination of the materiality, landscape and transformation processes of one case study from Nether Corskie, Aberdeenshire. Technologies of transformation of the existing stone are considered and contextualized as evidence of contemporary concerns and manipulations of concepts and memories of genealogy, ancestry and place

Building blocks: structural contexts and carved stones

Early medieval carved stones can be many things: landscape monuments, churchyard monuments or memorials, grave markers, architectural elements usually in churches or public commemorative statements to name a few (not exclusive) functions. However, there are also hints that carved stones could be part of settlement micro-landscapes built into or next to buildings or forts. This paper looks at a range of archaeological contexts for the use of early medieval carved stones in structural (non-church related) contexts in Britain. This small group of monuments includes both the more ‘public’ structural monuments on display and ‘hidden’ monuments built into structures and not visible. These monuments are explored in this paper in terms of memory, movement and performance – where engagement could be both habitual behaviour and part of specific events of social practice and memory. The spatial and depositional dimensions will be explored and how routine, even possibly mundane, engagement with stones in these settings may offer a different perspective on how monuments can be part of the process of memorisation and selective forgetting

The symbol carving process as a mnemonic manipulator of ‘deep’ genealogy in Early Medieval Scotland

From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications RouterHistory: ppub 2023-01-02, issued 2023-01-02, epub 2023-11-16, published 2023-12-07Article version: VoRPublication status: Publishe

Together as one: The landscape of the symbol stones at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire

This book chapter is not available through ChesterRep.This book chapter discusses the Rhynie Environs Archaeological Project (REAP) which explored a group of Pictish monuments in the village of Rhynie in Aberdeenshire