PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the early medieval Moray Firthlands in Scotland. Live in Penryn, Cornwall. FSAScot. Posts about early medieval Scottish history and archaeology. Blog: https://fortrenn.ghost.io
Why does this kind of thing never happen to me when I am wandering around places? The most exciting thing I've ever found while wandering around was a Tarot card, and not even one of the good ones.
In Edinburgh on 25 June? We'd love to see you at the launch of Common Ground, the proceedings of a conference held in 2022 to honour the late Dr Anna Ritchie. Join us to celebrate Dr Ritchie and her work as archaeologist, author and lifelong advocate of Scotland’s premodern history and heritage.
Reading about Basil Brown made me think of my own parents. One Sunday, dad took me down town to check on a site - & spotted some stone among the industrial sludge. I thought he was mad! It turned out to be the only surviving bit of Yeovil's early Anglo-Saxon minster church... #notsuttonhoobut
For historians who are endlessly organising workshops on the "material turn" - please remember that archaeology is an entire discipline predicated on material culture and we might just have something to contribute #disciplinarymyopia
