medieval
"Tickets for the dinner dance are 21/-": community archaeology in Southampton 1958-2008
Anna Welch (Secretary of the Southampton Museums Archaeology Society and Southampton Archaeology Unit, UK)
Southampton Council: 50 years of supporting urban archaeology
Andy Russel (Southampton Archaeology Unit, UK)
Southampton Council appointed its first archaeologist in 1958, and excavations in the Roman, Saxon and Medieval towns have been conducted ever since. This paper will look at the ups and downs of archaeology in one urban area over that period, following the changing fashions of what got excavated, how it was excavated, who dug it up, and how the City’s past was used and abused.
In Search of the Holy Cross: Reconstructing the Guild Chapel at Stratford-upon-Avon
Geoff Arnott (Heritage Technology, UK) and Kate Giles (University of York, UK)
Agency and Agents: Computer Simulation and the Potentiality of Late Medieval Sacred Space
Anthony Masinton (University of York, UK)
Was Wales Really Invented by the Normans? The ‘Long 12th Century’ and the Implications for Nationalist Revisionism
Jemma Bezant (University of Wales Lampeter, UK)
Following the Grain? A ceramic perspective on studying social fragmentation in Medieval Southampton
Ben Jervis (University of Southampton, UK)
Digging the 'faithful city': particularism, interdisciplinarity and theory in medieval urban archaeologies of Worcester (UK)
Hal Dalwood (Worcestershire County Council, UK)
The archaeology of contemporary commemoration: the case of the medieval monument at Maner, Patna District, Bihar, India
Ajay Pratap (Banaras Hindu University, India)
What have archaeologists ever done for us? A detailed exploration of archaeology in the community of Southampton
Duncan H. Brown (Southampton City Council; duncan.brown@southampton.gov.uk)and Andy Russel (Southampton City Council; andy.russel@southampton.gov.uk)
Putting Humpty Together Again: Overcoming the Fragmentation of the Middle Ages (supported by the Society for Medieval Archaeology).
Tehmina Goskar (University of Southampton; tehm@soton.ac.uk) and Ben Jervis (University of Southampton; bpj106@soton.ac.uk)
