‘Hunting, Feasting and Pottery at the Palace in the Forest: snapshots of medieval Clarendon in context’
A 2-day free Zoom conference to celebrate recent excavations at the medieval palace of Clarendon, Wiltshire.
Dubbed ‘the most important medieval secular building in Wiltshire’, the medieval royal palace of Clarendon is a unique time capsule, occupied from the Norman Conquest but abandoned by 1500.
This conference will showcase some results of the first truly archaeological and scientific modern exploratory excavations, which took place in June-July 2019 enabled by Historic England & resourced by the Heritage Fund.
This event is free but booking for the conference is essential.
Each day of the conference must be booked separately.
Day 1: Saturday 10 April 2021
Chair: Mandy Richardson
09.30-10.00 Cindy Wood. ‘Weeding and Writing: the work of Friends of Clarendon Palace’
10.00-10.30 Tom James. ‘Clarendon: Why Another Dig?’
10.30-10.40 BREAK
10.40-11.10 James Wright. ‘Parallels at King’s Clipstone’
11.10-11.40 Lorraine Mepham. ‘Clarendon’s Pottery and Other Ceramic Finds’
Booking for Day 1 via Eventbrite
Day 2: Sunday 11 April 2021
Chair: Cindy Wood
09.30-10.00 Jamie Armstrong. ‘Excavations at Clarendon Palace, 2019’
10.00-10.30 Naomi Sykes. ‘Excavations 2019: The animal bones’
10.30-10.40 BREAK
10.40-11.10 Mandy Richardson. ‘Leaps & bounds: hunting in Clarendon Forest and Park’
11.10-11.40 Mary South. ‘Medieval merriment at Clarendon and elsewhere’
11.40-12.10 Chris Woolgar. ‘Feasting and the elite in late medieval England’
12.10 – 12.30 Tom James. Summing up and close.
Booking for Day 2 via Eventbrite
This webpage is hosted by Triskele Heritage on behalf of the Friends of Clarendon Palace.
