<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Archaeology - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Archaeology news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening in your profession!]]></description><language>en-uk</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Two Roman reactions to the Emperor Philippikos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let us move onto slightly lighter topics, if long-term demonic possession, Church Schism, the nature of the Christian Incarnation, invisible crucifixion of women, destruction of political imagery and, worst of all, numismatics, count as lighter. But than the last post, or indeed what must now come soon, I think this is still lighter, and besides, on what other blog are you going to get that combination? So: this post is about the very little-known Emperor Philippikos &ldquo;Bardanes&rdquo;, an e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/two-roman-reactions-to-the-emperor-philippikos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/two-roman-reactions-to-the-emperor-philippikos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something for Marie]]></title><description><![CDATA[I only venture onto Academia.edu sporadically these days, usually to check for messages, hoover up any interesting-looking PDFs and run away again, maybe every few weeks. I did this on 27th September and one of the things I found was a review of Marie Kelleher&rsquo;s second book, which I was delighted by because I knew a little of how much of a battle it had been to finish the thing, and I hadn&rsquo;t gathered she had.1 Then I read the first line, and discovered it contained the words, "publis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/something-for-marie/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/something-for-marie/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Direction Elsewhere I]]></title><description><![CDATA[I meant to have a post up here last weekend, and now it&rsquo;s this weekend. Teaching here started this week, you see, and there was a lot going on last week, and paradoxically rather a lot of it was blogging, just not blogging here. (I did say this might happen&hellip;) You see, I had worked through to where I wanted to write up something about stuff I&rsquo;d been to or seen, and, well, you remember I laid down some guidelinees about what such things needed to be like to qualify for blogging]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/direction-elsewhere-i/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/direction-elsewhere-i/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you do with a problem like Vives?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We go back, with this post, to January of 2022, when I was slowly doing my first pass through the newly edited charters of the Barcelona area in the Catalunya Carol&iacute;ngia series.1 I should explain why. I have ambitions, you may remember, to write a life-and-times study of Count-Marquis Borrell II of Barcelona. Since there are only fragments of narrative which mention him, all more or less incompletely informed, that has to be done from the charters.2 This is one of a good few sentences I&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/what-do-you-do-with-a-problem-like-vives/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/what-do-you-do-with-a-problem-like-vives/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working Elsewhere]]></title><description><![CDATA[It must be a scant post this week, because I have as the title says very largely been using my blogging time elsewhere. But I want to tell you about that! You probably remember, unless you&rsquo;re new here (is anyone? Hi! and thanks for tuning in!) that since 2015 I have sporadically been promoting a project called Rethinking the Medieval Frontier. It&rsquo;s formed a network, it&rsquo;s done some sessions at the International Medieval Congress, it got some money and held its own conference, no]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/working-elsewhere/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/working-elsewhere/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seminar CLXXXIII: limited evidence of Mozarabic cultural broking]]></title><description><![CDATA[How long is it since I blogged a seminar? Apparently more than two years, and this blog used to be (in)famous for them. It doesn&rsquo;t bode well for contemporaneity that the seminar I now want to report on comes from only a year later than the last one I blogged, which is to say May 2022. Believe it or not, though, I have junked a lot of things I might once have written up by way of trying to cut backlog. I&rsquo;ve decided that the two criteria a seminar has to fulfil still to be worth bloggi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-clxxxiii-limited-evidence-of-mozarabic-cultural-broking/</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-clxxxiii-limited-evidence-of-mozarabic-cultural-broking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wulfsige the Moor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here is a curiosity I found a while back. A very long time ago I gave a paper at the Leeds International Medieval Congress (to which as you will have seen I aim to return) about church archives that preserved documents from before their own existence. There were reasons that couldn&rsquo;t be published then, and I never properly returned to it, but apparently towards the end of 2021 I felt as if I might need some professional insurance and started looking again at whether it could be quickly com]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/wulfsige-the-moor/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/wulfsige-the-moor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small call for papers about places large in the mind]]></title><description><![CDATA[For this week&rsquo;s post, can I bring things into the present day for once? I am trying, for various reasons quite late in the day, to put together a session or two for next year&rsquo;s International Medieval Congress back at the University of Leeds, and my old networks are failing me.1 But this blog, and the places it reaches, are also a network, and so I want to put the idea out there in front of you all in case anyone else is interested in having a go with it.<br />
L&rsquo;Esquerda, Roda de Ter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/small-call-for-papers-about-places-large-in-the-mind/</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/small-call-for-papers-about-places-large-in-the-mind/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearing around the Middle Ages in Bristol]]></title><description><![CDATA[I spent pretty much all of yesterday in transport systems, the full 24 hours, and so I hope you will forgive a second photo post about Bristol this weekend, but I do have a point to make with it, I hope. You see, as well as the Temple Church we looked at a few weeks back, there is a cluster of medieval buildings in the old centre of Bristol, and having seen them on a map on that same trip, my companion and I then went to see what remained.<br />
The west face of the tower of St Mary le Port, inclusion]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/clearing-around-the-middle-ages-in-bristol/</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/clearing-around-the-middle-ages-in-bristol/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That this volume even exists]]></title><description><![CDATA[You must put up with something slightly more light-weight than usual this week, as I am currently in my research area either climbing stuff or eating very well (which will hopefully balance each other out in some calorific way). So, here is something I stubbed to write back in January 2022 and am only now reaching. You would need to go a long way back to remember that occasionally here, as I think happens to every early medieval Iberianist, I have had to deal with the work of a man named Claudio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/that-this-volume-even-exists/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/that-this-volume-even-exists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three successful Doctors of Philosophy]]></title><description><![CDATA[A little while back, in the spirit of clearing my backlog of blogging material, I was going through a stack of notes from long ago, working out which if any of the seminars I went to in that time which (still) have not been reported here were still worth talking about. Among those I passed over was a set from a doctoral work-in-progress seminar in the University of Leeds&rsquo;s Institute for Medieval Studies, back in 2021. This was one of the good practices of the IMS, and presumably still is,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/three-successful-doctors-of-philosophy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/three-successful-doctors-of-philosophy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Bombed Temple]]></title><description><![CDATA[For one reason or another, though my family has no particular connection with the place, I&rsquo;ve quite often had UK-based relatives who live in Bristol. When I used to visit them there when I was young, it was before I&rsquo;d so determinedly become a medievalist, and I mainly visited the waterfront. It wasn&rsquo;t till a more recent visit, in March 2022, that I discovered that Bristol&rsquo;s medieval past is actually visible in places. I admit, I&rsquo;d assumed that a combination of devel]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-bombed-temple/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-bombed-temple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomatic emendation can only get you so far]]></title><description><![CDATA[The last time I did any serious work on my next book &ndash; though the queue of opuscula before that can resume is diminishing now &ndash; seems to my horror to have been about five years ago. I can tell you this because it came to an abrupt halt after I&rsquo;d written my way through quite a complicated justification of trying to get some historical value out of another pretty-obviously forged charter, it being one of the nearly-famous three I&rsquo;ve published about in which Count-Marquis Bo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/diplomatic-emendation-can-only-get-you-so-far/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/diplomatic-emendation-can-only-get-you-so-far/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without Rosamond McKitterick]]></title><description><![CDATA[This excellent picture is linked through from an obituary in the journal Reti Medievali, who I hope won&rsquo;t mind; I can&rsquo;t find any explicitly copyright-free pictures of Rosamond on the web and somehow don&rsquo;t have any of my own.<br />
Obviously I do not love writing obituary posts, even if I have realised now that I set myself up for the inevitability of it some years ago now. But this one I probably hate doing more than all the others, because this is for a person who mattered a great d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/without-rosamond-mckitterick/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/without-rosamond-mckitterick/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another enigmatic stone of Scotland]]></title><description><![CDATA[I didn&rsquo;t mean to drop into another hiatus, but in my defence I&rsquo;ve been in three countries dragging a lot of suitcases in the last month, and getting ready for that was also a battle involving a lot of chasing bureaucracy and heavy lifting. Now I, my significant belongings and my significant other are all in India and I&rsquo;m not teaching till Autumn. I have some deadlines to meet and targets to hit in that time, but I am also very keen to get this blog properly going again. So, her]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/another-enigmatic-stone-of-scotland/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/another-enigmatic-stone-of-scotland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing better than them: diplomatic judgement at Santa Cecília d’Elins]]></title><description><![CDATA[(Note: this post was all ready to go on Sunday night when I drifted onto Academia.edu for no very good reason and found an exactly relevant article that seriously affected some of what was here. If it looks a bit scrappy now, that is me trying not to do a full rewrite and delay things further&hellip; Hopefully it&rsquo;s not evident though!)<br />
I have, at times, been known to claim that I&rsquo;m an expert in diplomatic. That&rsquo;s not diplomacy, or diplomatic history, but an older, I&rsquo;d eve]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/knowing-better-than-them-diplomatic-judgement-at-santa-ceclia-delins/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/knowing-better-than-them-diplomatic-judgement-at-santa-ceclia-delins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-Man Churches in the Western Isles]]></title><description><![CDATA[In recent years a lot of my posts have been collections of photos from very long ago of things medieval, and while that is in some ways fine &ndash; I&rsquo;m here to tell you about them &ndash; it has struck me of late that they haven&rsquo;t all had a point. I felt the last one worked better for having even the semblance of one, but then having promised there to talk about the Islay church of Kilmeny, had to wonder what the actual point of doing so was. Then a friend of mine coincidentally ran]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/one-man-churches-in-the-western-isles/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/one-man-churches-in-the-western-isles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frontier warlords in Ankara]]></title><description><![CDATA[[This is a post that got shunted down the queue for reasons of respect and priority; I originally wrote it about four months ago. It still might want reporting, though, so here you are.] Every now and then I remember that the ostensible purpose of this blog is to publicise my endeavours, rather than report on academic things that happened years ago or sadly commemorate dead scholars. Of course, for much of the last decade, and especially the last few years, there hasn&rsquo;t been as much to rep]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/frontier-warlords-in-ankara/</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 13:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/frontier-warlords-in-ankara/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good (c. 985)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s go back to my actual research area for a post, shall we? You remember, perhaps&mdash;gosh, it seems a while ago&mdash;that in one of my two brief interludes of research leave in my previous job I got hold of the Barcelona volumes, nearly the last, of the monumental Catalunya Carol&iacute;ngia project to publish all the pre-1000 charters preserved in Catalonia, and found numerous real gems in there?1 Or in some cases, the opposite, in the form of horrible people? Well, this is another]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/its-an-ill-wind-that-blows-nobody-any-good-c-985/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/its-an-ill-wind-that-blows-nobody-any-good-c-985/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wet Hillforts in Islay, or, Large-Scale Oblivion]]></title><description><![CDATA[I intended a light post to follow the last one, and this is lighter, but a point got in my way while I was drafting it, so it develops weight towards the end. We begin in September of 2021, when my then-partner, now-wife and I went for a short break to Islay. We loved it, but it was right at the end of the holiday season and the weather was, how to put it, fairly "soft". What this means is that, after passing on one drive a structure that seemed pretty obviously to be a hillfort, we decided ther]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/wet-hillforts-in-islay-or-large-scale-oblivion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/wet-hillforts-in-islay-or-large-scale-oblivion/</guid></item></channel></rss>