Grave Concerns: Death, Landscape, and Locality in Medieval Society
13th to the 15th July 2018
FRIDAY 13 JULY
17.00 – 19.00 – Registration, Durham Cathedral Cloister
18.00 – 19.00 – Free private view of the Open Treasure exhibition at Durham Cathedral
19.00 – 20.00 – Keynote Lecture 1 – Bonnie Effros (University of Liverpool) New eyes on ancient cemeteries? Merovingian mortuary archaeology in the age of Inrap
20.00 – 21.00 – Wine Reception
SATURDAY 14 JULY
Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre, Calman Learning Centre, Durham University Science Site
8.40 – 9.00 – Late Registration
9.00 – 9.15 – Welcome and Introduction – Sarah Semple (Durham University)
9.15 – 10.15 – Session 1: Re-thinking Cremation
Gareth Perry (University of Sheffield) – Ceramic hinterlands: establishing the ‘catchment areas’ of EarlyAnglo-Saxon cremation cemeteries
Femke Lippok (Leiden University) – The pyre and the grave: reconsidering early medieval cremation burials on the continent
10.15 – 10.45 – Coffee
10.45 – 12.15 – Session 2: Early Medieval Cemeteries: Place, Space and Context
Jean Soulat (LandArc – Craham UMR 6273) – Merovingian cemetery at Vicq, Yvelines, France: more than 40 years of research (1976–2016)
Adrián Maldonado (University of Glasgow) – Re-animating unfurnished burials: stone cists and log coffins in early medieval northern Britain
Dries Tys (Free University of Brussels) – Resilient burial landscapes versus the triumph of Christianisation: continuity and change in the burial landscape of northern Francia in the 7th-11th centuries
12.15 – 13.15 – Lunch
13.15 – 15.15 – Session 3: Monumentality and Memory
Jure Šućur (University of Zadar) – Reusing tumuli as burial sites in Dalmatia: when and how
Juliette Mitchell (University of Aberdeen) – Landscapes of the dead: the setting of Pictish barrow cemeteries
Anouk Busset (University of Glasgow) – Carving early Christianity: stone monuments as creation of liturgical movement in the landscape?
Andrew Johnson (Manx National Heritage) – Fingerposts to faith: movement in a landscape of carved stone crosses
15.15 – 15.45 – Coffee
15.45 – 17.15 – Session 4: Medieval Life and Death
Roos van Oosten & Rachel Schats (Leiden University) – Urban graveyards in the Low Countries: burial research in comparative perspective
Mary Lewis (University of Reading) – Health, work and the adolescent in medieval England (AD 900-1550): the osteological evidence
Catriona McKenzie (University of Exeter) – Death and burial in Gaelic medieval Ireland
18.00 – 19.00 – Keynote Lecture 2
Roberta Gilchrist (University of Reading) – Unleashing heterodoxy: an anthropological agenda for later medieval burial archaeology
19.00 – 20.30 – Wine Reception and Poster Session, Calman Learning Centre, Durham University Science Site
SUNDAY 15 JULY
Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre, Calman Learning Centre, Durham University Science Site
9.30 – 10.30 – Session 5: Re-dating Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries
John Hines (Cardiff University) – The burial grounds at RAF Lakenheath, Eriswell, Suffolk: the chronological evidence
John Naylor (Ashmolean) & Chris Scull (UCL/Cardiff University) – The use of gold coinage in Early Anglo-Saxon burials
10.30 – 11.00 – Coffee
11.00 – 12.00 – Session 6: Burial in the Viking World
Ann Sølvia Jacobsen (Durham University), Símun V. Arge (National Museum of the Faroe Islands) & Karen Milek (Durham University) – Landscape agency, mental maps, and the siting of Viking Age burials in the North Atlantic region
Caroline Paterson & Stephen Harrison (University of Glasgow) – The pagan Norse graves of Scotland: burial, landscape and diversity
12.00 – 13.00 – Keynote Lecture 3
Duncan Sayer (University of Central Lancashire) – Title TBC
