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Sam’s research and teaching interests focus on the landscapes of Britain and Europe since the Roman period, and on medieval archaeology (particularly early medieval religion). His publications include Making a Christian Landscape (2006) and Medieval Devon and Cornwall (ed., 2006). The results of his previous EH funded project presenting a Historic Landscape Characterisation of Devon are published in Ancient Country: the Historic Character of Rural Devon (2007). Early Medieval Northumbria: Kingdoms and Communities (ed. with David Petts) will be published in 2010 by Brepols.Sam has chaired the Archaeology Working Group for the Wearmouth-Jarrow Candidate World Heritage Site Partnership and edits the journal Medieval Settlement Research. Current projects alongside this one include Unlocking Historic Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean (with Prof. Jim Crow, Edinburgh University ) and Making Christian Landscapes in Early Medieval Ireland (with Tomás Ó Carragáin, University College Cork).
Project Leader
Research and teaching interests focus on the landscapes of early medieval Britain and Europe in particular the role of landscape in religion and cult practice and the ideological and political uses of natural topography and ancient remains in early medieval European societies. Recent results from her research on assembly and assembly sites in Britain and Europe can be found in ‘Places of Assembly: New Discoveries in Sweden and England’. Fornvännen 2008, 103(4): 245-259 and new perspectives on pre-Christian belief and practice in ‘Defining the OE Hearg: a preliminary archaeological and topographic examination of hearg place names and their hinterlands’, Early Medieval Europe 15(4): 364-385 and in Carver, M.O.H., Semple, S. & Sanmark, A. (eds), in press. Signals of Belief, Oxbow Books Ltd. She sits on the Archaeology Working Group, for the Wearmouth-Jarrow Candidate World Heritage Site Partnership and on the Council for The Society of Medieval Archaeology. Current projects alongside this include Space, place and performance: archaeological and topographic perspectives on Assembly in Southern Sweden (BA funded) and Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England. A workshop series exploring the value and legacy of the Anglo-Saxon place-name record (AHRC funded).
Project Manager
Alex is the Project Manager and with over 30 years of experience in archaeology, is responsible for providing the GIS, computing, geophysics, landscape and building survey elements for the project. His current research focuses on the development of a holistic methodology employing, amongst other techniques, GIS, laser scanning and geophysical prospection to enable greater understanding of the construction of early medieval churches. Other recent projects include, the provision of the GIS, geophysics and survey components for The Akkerman Fortress Project, Ukraine (http://www.akkermanfortress.org/), Anundshögen, in Västmanland, Sweden, Dinnington Roman Villa (2006-2007) and The Southern Quantocks Archaeological Survey (2000-2005)http://www2.winchester.ac.uk/archaeology/SQAS.htm.
Project Studentship
Sophie Laidler, Department of Archaeology, Durham University
Sophie’s studentship MA research aim is to record and analyze public perceptions of the Wearmouth and Jarrow monasteries and their surrounding landscapes. Sophie completed her undergraduate degree in Archaeology at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Here, she conducted a dissertation that explored Honey Usage in North West Europe between c.4500 and c.500 B.C. Sophie has worked as a commercial and volunteer archaeologist and is interested in a broad range of archaeological periods. Other passions in archaeology include ethnography, traditional crafts and practices, commercial out-reach projects and volunteer archaeology.
Web Officer
Tudor Skinner, Department of Archaeology, Durham University
Tudor's doctoral research concerns the development of ecclesiastical and other enclosures in the early medieval landscapes of Bernicia and Wessex, with particular regard to their operation at a number of interweaving scales of their environment. Presently the Treasurer of the Durham Medieval Archaeologists research grouping, he comes from a commercial background in field archaeology and historic building recording.
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