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Thornborough Henges: detecting medieval social use of a prehistoric ritual landscape

The MeRit team has been piloting statistical methods to identify clusters of public finds that may reveal ‘persistent places’ in the landscape (after Daubney 2015/2016), locales where medieval activity appears to focus on earlier monuments.

Incomplete medieval gauntlet knuckle guard. Full description at https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/152714

MeRit’s Canterbury pilgrimage

Partnering with Canterbury Museums & Galleries and Canterbury Cathedral Archives, England’s principal cathedral provided the ideal location for the MeRit workshop on 14 October 2024.

A box containing leaden pilgrim signs surrounded by engraved artworks based on them

MeRit and YAC at Norwich Castle

The Council for British Archaeology’s Young Archaeologists’ Club (YAC) provides young people with an opportunity to get involved in archaeology and learn about the past. The MeRit team was keen...Read More >

Professional male archaeologist talks through presentation to a group of seated children - members of Norwich Young Archaeologists' Club

MeRit Citizen Science Workshop at the Yorkshire Museum

On 10 September, MeRit held its first ‘citizen science’ workshop at the Yorkshire Museum, the attendees representing local metal-detecting clubs joining together to co-curate a display in the Museum foyer.

A group of 6 people sitting around a table covered with a blue cloth, archaeological objects, papers and a laptop. The group are looking towards the camera and smiling.

MeRit present at EAA 2024 in Rome!

The MeRit team have just enjoyed a successful session at our first conference as a project, presenting some early results and meeting a wide range of colleagues from across Europe....Read More >

Brick building at Sapienza University of Rome

First documented Polish pilgrim badge found in England?

In 1433 famous Norfolk mystic Margery Kempe left modern-day King's Lynn for what is now Gdańsk in northern Poland. Her overland return journey turned into a pilgrimage that encompassed visits...Read More >

Pilgrim badge showing Virgin and Child, thumbnail

Recording Lynn Museum’s Pilgrim Badges

The Lynn badges project, affiliated with the AHRC-funded Medieval Ritual Landscape project, is underway to digitally record the Lynn badges and produce a new popular publication and catalogue.

Lynn Museum staff Jan Summerfield and Dayna Woolbright standing in front of the medieval object cases at Lynn Museum and behind a table with trays of pilgrim badges

First MeRit outreach session – PAS staff talk

Today saw the first Medieval Ritual Landscape project outreach session as three members of the MeRit team introduced the project to staff of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) online.

PAS finds with ecclesiastical connections

MeRit at EAA 2024 in Rome!

The EAA Annual Meetings bring together colleagues from all over Europe to discuss important issues in research, heritage management and commercial practice, ethics and theory, and the newest results of fieldwork.

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Meet the team!

Meet the MeRit project team

An illumination depicting a scriptorium in action showing two people writing at individual desks facing a nun also writing at a desk who is facing the other two people

PAS finds recording guides

The Finds Recording Guides (FRGs) are technical guides intended for Portable Antiquities Scheme staff and volunteers. They provide guidance on how to record objects on the Scheme’s database. MeRit aims to produce new FRGs relating to the medieval ritual landscape

Medieval pilgrim badge. Full description at https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/q/YORYM-F112E1

European Association of Archaeologists meeting 2024

The EAA Annual Meetings bring together colleagues from all over Europe to discuss important issues in research, heritage management and commercial practice, ethics and theory, and the newest results of fieldwork.

EAA 2024 Logo. 28-31 AUG ROME. Persisting with change

Welcome to our posts!

Welcome to the MeRit project posts section. Here you can find out about upcoming MeRit project events and activities to help advance knowledge of the medieval ritual landscape.

Titivillus is a demon said to introduce errors into the work of scribes. This is a 14th century illustration of Titivillus at a scribe's desk.