On Friday the 13th of June the Yorkshire Museum played host to a special event marking the opening of a new co-curated display celebrating the work of the Medieval Ritual Landscape or MeRit Project, an AHRC-funded research collaboration led by the University of Reading and the British Museum, with partner organisations across England, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Focused on the period AD 1000–1600, this fascinating project has been investigating the material traces of religious experience and exploring ‘medieval lived religion’ and ritual activity through in different ways across the country. In York metal-detected finds, particularly those unearthed by local detectorists and recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) were used to explore these themes.