Month: June 2021

One Day Historic Building Surveys: Uncover the Archaeology of Your House

Triskele Heritage are now offering one day building surveys for the owners of historic buildings.

This service is carried out by award-winning buildings archaeologist James Wright – who has over 20 years of professional experience in the field. It includes a full day on site to assess the physical structure, take high quality photographs and analyse the form, function, materials and phasing of the building.

The day then concludes with a tour of the building to outline the archaeological findings, point out interesting features and offer comment on the date and phasing of the property.

Our one day surveys are a quick and relatively inexpensive option which can enable landowners to find out more about the history and archaeology of their properties.

The survey could also form the basis for the production of an optional report on the structure.

To find out more about our one day surveys, please do get in contact…

Please do have a look at our testimonials page to see what our clients have made of our services…

Testimonials

Mediaeval Brick Buildings

During the late mediaeval period England witnessed the innovative introduction of brick as a high status building material. Used almost exclusively by elite patrons, much inspiration was gathered from brick buildings in mainland Europe. These architectural ideas were driven by widespread networks connected to itinerant brickmakers, the Teutonic Order and, especially, the Hanseatic League. On encountering these radical new ideas in building from the German, Dutch and Baltic states, English architecture was never quite the same again…

The speaker, James Wright (Triskele Heritage), is an award winning buildings archaeologist. He has two decades professional experience of ferreting around in people’s cellars, hunting through their attics and digging up their gardens. He hopes to find meaningful truths about how ordinary and extraordinary folk lived their lives in the mediaeval period.

This recording is a memorial lecture in honour of Mike Stillman-Lowe.

The event originally took place via Zoom on Wednesday 6 October 2021 .

Errata: During this talk the speaker incorrectly notes that Eton is in Surrey – it is, of course, in Berkshire 🙂