<?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>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:01:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><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><item><title><![CDATA[Deaths of the titans]]></title><description><![CDATA[I almost wish I had never started writing obituaries on this blog. Obviously, there were good reasons to do so (as well as some bad ones) and people I felt I owed, but still. I should have realised that it would mean chronicling the passage of the generation where as a student and young academic I found my teachers and patrons, and as that generation reaches the kind of extent which can be expected, of course the bad news keeps coming.However, very rarely am I expecting it when it comes, and cer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/deaths-of-the-titans/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/deaths-of-the-titans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In and on an abbey]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is more spare time in my new life than there was but somehow it keeps being taken up&hellip; I haven&rsquo;t yet worked out where blogging fits into the new r&eacute;gime, either. I should, really, be able to post more regularly soon, but in the meantime, may I keep your attention at least a little with some more West Midlands medieval ecclesiastical architecture? These are photos from the same trip as the last such post, which we rounded off with a proper wander around this place.First si]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/in-and-on-an-abbey/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:07:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/in-and-on-an-abbey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Excavating the CA archive – medieval and modern mines]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last month&rsquo;s column explored prehistoric mines, and this month I will follow up on the topic by visiting medieval and modern examples that have been examined in past issues of CA. The range is wide: from Welsh slate to English coal, and from salt in the Midlands to tin in the south-west. For those seeking an overview of this subject, the key starting point is Neil Cossons&rsquo; exploration of Britain&rsquo;s industrial archaeology in CA 216 (March 2008); see also the &lsquo;Odd Socs&rsquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-medieval-and-modern-mines/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-medieval-and-modern-mines/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Current Archaeology 432 – ON SALE NOW]]></title><description><![CDATA[The picturesque landscape around Loch Lomond has long been celebrated for its natural beauty, including the slopes of Ben Lomond, which attract tens of thousands of hill-walking enthusiasts every year. What, though, is known about the mountain&rsquo;s historic environment? For the last 30 years, the National Trust for Scotland have been working to document archaeological sites stretching from the lochside to the summit of Ben Lomond. In our cover feature, we highlight some of the key discoverie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-432-on-sale-now/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-432-on-sale-now/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘By yon bonnie banks’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exploring the archaeology of Ben LomondDigging the iron bloomery mound on the Ardess Hidden History Trail (Site 6). IMAGE: National Trust for ScotlandBen Lomond is one of Scotland&rsquo;s most famous mountains, lying on the edge of the Highland boundary fault, with its shouldered profile dominating the skyline of the Central Belt and the Trossachs. Over the last three decades, National Trust for Scotland staff have been unpicking the archaeological and historical stories preserved within this la]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/by-yon-bonnie-banks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/by-yon-bonnie-banks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correction III: at least one is black on one side]]></title><description><![CDATA[I suppose it is not inappropriate that after lamenting Josep Mar&iacute;a Salrach&rsquo;s death I return to a long-stubbed post in which I put one of the books he allowed me to get for free, and in whose publication he was a major part, to work.1 This comes, you see, out of that brief patch of research leave I had back in 2022 which I spent trying to find Count-Marquis Borrell II and his contacts in the newly-available charters from the county of Barcelona, and it&rsquo;s one of the bits where t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/correction-iii-at-least-one-is-black-on-one-side/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/correction-iii-at-least-one-is-black-on-one-side/</guid></item></channel></rss>