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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 >

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.

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 >

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.

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Medieval Ritual Landscape Project at the Yorkshire Museum

Recording and XRF-ing in Norfolk

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

MeRit lead analysis and recording day – King’s Lynn, 24th November

MeRit Citizen Science Workshop at the Yorkshire Museum

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