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Monday is often an interesting day at Lynn Museum, because it’s closed. The gift shop is dark, the front door is shut and the Savages carousel, normally lit up and playing jaunty carnival tunes, is silent and still. As the front of house team relax at home on their day off, it’s the curators who open the back door of the museum to researchers and investigators, taking advantage of the lack of visitors to open the cabinets and look more closely at the collection.

In Yorkshire, Michael Lewis (British Museum) and Rebecca Griffiths (Yorkshire Museum) are working with representatives of the local metal detecting community to co-curate a display in the Museum foyer. On 17th January 2025 we held our second workshop at the Yorkshire Museum. At this workshop, we began refining ideas for our display.

MeRit teamed up with the PAS (Portable Antiquities Scheme) in Norfolk (Norfolk County Council) and the REMADE (Roman and Early Medieval Alloys Defined) project at the University of Reading to...Read More >

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.

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.

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 >

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.

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 >

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 >

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.

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.

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.

Meet the MeRit project team

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

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.

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.