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.
Metal detecting
Medieval Ritual Landscape Project at the Yorkshire Museum
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.
Recording and XRF-ing in Norfolk
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 >
MeRit lead analysis and recording day – King’s Lynn, 24th November
The Medieval Ritual Landscape project invites finders within reach of King's Lynn, Norfolk, to bring in their medieval leaden artefacts for recording and analysis on 24th November 2024. We hope...Read More >
