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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.