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Andy Gaunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716472077838765777noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8364820219691801658.post-4065015661330916042017-10-31T10:21:00.000+00:002017-10-31T10:46:00.394+00:00The Sherwood Forest Archaeological Training Fieldschool 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is not an ordinary field school - this is a ‘Training Field School’ where you will learn about all aspects of archaeological excavation and receive hands on training and learning from archaeological professionals in the heart of Sherwood Forest…</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As well as offering the best in archaeological training and support, the 2017 Field School is tailored towards enabling attendees to fulfil the requirements of the</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Archaeological Training Field School 2018:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This course is suitable for all levels from beginner to experienced digger.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those wishing to develop their skills, for students and post-graduates seeking to fulfill the experience requirements of their courses… for those wishing to pursue a career in archaeology, or improve their knowledge to give them the edge at work… for those looking to acquire cross-transferable skills… for volunteer diggers wishing to raise their game, impress their friends, and increase their enjoyment of archaeology and heritage through a greater skill set and knowledge base…. through to people simply wishing to learn for the love of learning…</span><br />
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Everyone is welcome… no previous knowledge or experience is required…</div>
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You will receive training and experience in many techniques of excavation,</div>
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including The Core Skills of the Archaeological Skills Passport:</div>
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<li>Handtools (Trowel etc)</li>
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<li>Site Formation Processes</li>
<li>Stratigraphic Excavation</li>
<li>Context Sheet Recording</li>
<li>Site Photography</li>
<li>Site Grid and Trench Layout</li>
<li>Dumpy Level and Staff</li>
<li>Planning</li>
<li>Section Drawing</li>
<li>Collection of Samples</li>
<li>Artefact Recovery, Recording & Storage</li>
<li>Site Safety</li>
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Plus many higher level archaeological techniques that make up the Secondary Skills of the Archaeology Skills Passport including:</div>
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As well as covering skill requirements for the Passport we also provide:</div>
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<li>Finds handling,</li>
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<li>Flint Knapping Demonstrations,</li>
<li>History of Ceramics lectures,</li>
<li>And much more…</li>
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As well as the above all school attendees will receive the following:<br />
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All techniques are taught and experienced throughout the week, with hands on training from our Archaeological experts. Every attendee will learn to excavate, draw sections and plans, and fill in context sheets and paperwork.<br />
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Delegates will undertake workshops in surveying including:<br />
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<li>Laying out a trench in the field from co-ordinates</li>
<li>3 dimensional surveying with a total station.</li>
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Hands on learning and training is supplemented with seminars covering many of the subjects listed above -providing the theory behind the practice.<br />
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All attendees will receive a welcome pack with room for all handouts from lectures.<br />
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This course is suitable for people of all archaeological abilities from beginner wishing to take their first step, to experienced diggers wishing to take the next step, and from university students and post-graduates needing more experience, to retired people wanting to fulfill a life’s ambition… all are welcome and will be treated equally… the experience is tailored to the individual through hands on personal supervision.<br />
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Lunchtime demonstrations:<br />
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<li>Pot-boiler stone making,</li>
<li>flint-knapping</li>
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Field Days include lunch provided by our field caterers which will be eaten in our welfare area in the field.<br />
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A tuck shop is also available for snacks and drinks to be bought throughout the day.<br />
Onsite toilet facilities are provided along with welfare tents.<br />
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All equipment is provided, although you are welcome to bring you own trowels etc (more details when you have booked).<br />
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As well as all the above you will learn about the history and archaeology of Sherwood Forest, and also about the designed royal hunting landscape and Palace at its heart.<br />
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Mercian Archaeological Services CIC run the Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project and are at the leading edge of research into this landscape of legends…<br />
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2 Evening field visits (optional attendance):<br />
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<li>Field Visit to Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve- learn about Forest Law, the History of Sherwood Forest, and see some of the archaeology in the Country Park- also visit the Major Oak, legendary hideaway of Robin Hood!</li>
<li>Field visit to Laxton - Visit the earthworks of Laxton Castle former home of the Keepers of Sherwood Forest (also with links to King John), see the medieval open 3 field system (the only surviving in England), and visit the church with its interesting carvings, and the local visitors centre with its 17th century map of the village and its fields.</li>
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2 evening lectures (optional attendance) 6pm-7pm, subjects to include:<br />
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<li>Geology and Landscape of the Sherwood region - the importance of the “Ancient Landscape”</li>
<li>Viking and Saxon Sherwood Forest</li>
<li>History of Archaeology</li>
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<b>About King John’s Palace and Sherwood Forest:</b><br />
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The Sherwood Forest Archaeology Training Fieldschool focuses on the al hunting lodge and palatial enclosure of the King’s Houses, now known as King John’s Palace, and the designed landscape that surrounded it.<br />
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King John’s Palace was the Royal Heart of Sherwood Forest in the Medieval period.<br />
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The site was visited by all 8 kings from Henry II to Richard II, with King John possibly holding a proto-parliament there in the early 13th century and Edward I holding Parliament there in 1290.<br />
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Recent Archaeological work by Mercian Archaeological Services CIC has helped to reveal the size and importance of the site, and has also interpreted the surrounding lordship as a ‘designed’ medieval romantic hunting landscape.<br />
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The palace was sat at the heart of medieval Sherwood Forest and provided amenities for hunting, royal retreat, and the entertaining of foreign royalty and important members of society.<br />
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As part of the field school attendees will have the opportunity to learn all about Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood, outlaws, foresters, the landscape of Sherwood Forest in medieval times, the forest law, courts, offences and judiciary, the Palace at Clipstone, monasteries, chapels and hermitages, hunting parks, Nottingham Castle , Sheriffs and much much more about life in Medieval Sherwood Forest…<br />
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All included as part of the field school<br />
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Visit <a href="http://mercian-as.co.uk/fieldschool.html">http://mercian-as.co.uk/fieldschool.html</a> for info and to book your place.<br />
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Andy Gaunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716472077838765777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8364820219691801658.post-17362922476457407662017-10-31T10:14:00.002+00:002017-10-31T10:50:14.496+00:00St Edwin's Chapel and Clipstone Peel, Community Archaeology research in Sherwood Forest<div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mercian Archaeological Services CIC as part of the Sherwood Forest Archaeology and History Project has been undertaking fieldwork projects in October 2017 in the designed medieval landscape of Clipstone in Sherwood Forest.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This fieldwork Included Topographic Survey and Geophysical Magnetometer Survey at Clipstone Peel, and Geophysical Magnetometer Survey and Field-walking Survey at St Edwin's Chapel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">King Edwin, the first Christian King of Northumbria was killed in the year 633AD at the Battle of Hatfield somewhere in the area that later became Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The "Feather in Your Cap" Awardpresented to Mercian recognises the hard work, expertise and dedication we have put in over the years to investigating, interpreting and promoting the heritage of our world famous #SherwoodForest and King John's Palace.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, lucida grande, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.466667175293px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, lucida grande, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.466667175293px;">This is not an ordinary field school - this is a ‘Training Field School’ where you will learn about all aspects of archaeological excavation and receive hands on training and learning from archaeological professionals in the heart of Sherwood Forest…</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, lucida grande, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.466667175293px;">As well as all the above you will learn about the history and archaeology of Sherwood Forest, and also about the designed royal hunting landscape and Palace at its heart. Mercian Archaeological Services CIC run the Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project and are at the leading edge of research into this landscape of legends…</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, lucida grande, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.466667175293px;">All techniques are taught and experienced throughout the week, with hands on training from our Archaeological experts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, lucida grande, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.466667175293px;">and much more…</span></span><br />
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Andy Gaunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716472077838765777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8364820219691801658.post-44074316661503723962014-08-01T17:45:00.003+01:002014-08-01T18:01:39.810+01:00Robin Hood's Village Volunteer Dig Update!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fieldwork for phase 1 of the Robin Hood’s Village Volunteer Dig has now been completed. The excavations ran from the 14th - 25th of July 2014, and was Mercian's contribution to the Festival of British Archaeology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The project so far has been a fantastic success, recognised as Sherwood Forest's biggest ever volunteer excavation with <b>117 different people digging</b> over the course of <b>12 days</b>, producing over <b>1,374.75 hours</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See the project page here: <a href="http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/robinhood.html">http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/robinhood.html</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dig engaged a large number of people in the village of Edwinstowe with 15 test pits dug in gardens around the village. A significant number of properties have now signed up for stage 2 which is now being organised for the autumn by popular demand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alongside the local community people volunteered from all over the region and around the United Kingdom with people coming from around England and Northern Ireland. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The project was also joined by a volunteer all the way from Queensland Australia- here is what she had to say about her experiences:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I'd just like to say thank you so much to Andy, David and Sean for the last three days of getting dirty in test pits. I have made new friends, had loads of fun and have definitely learnt a lot from this experience. Could not have asked for a better first dig! I'm sure you'll be glad to know this has been the highlight of my trip and that I am so glad I came along." - Dana Abbott, Queensland, Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The project has also had a significant international following online via the Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project Facebook page with over <b>300 </b>new followers joining us during the duration of the dig.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We now have <b>5,435</b> followers for the Project <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sherwoodforesthistory">http://www.facebook.com/sherwoodforesthistory</a> .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also picked up<b> 130 </b>new likes for Mercian's own facebook page during the dig- swelling the total to <b>1,283 </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mercianarch">http://www.facebook.com/mercianarch</a> .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All great promotion for Sherwood Forest and its community and heritage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were also joined by the Newark and District branch of the Young Archaeology Club, members of the Edwinstowe Beavers Group, and members from the Southwell, and Newark branches of Reach Learning Disabilities Group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were also fortunate to have the Member of Parliament for Newark and Sherwood, Mark Spencer MP, Robin Hood aka Ezekial Bone of Nottingham Town Tours: <a href="http://www.ezekialbone.com/robinhood">http://www.ezekialbone.com/robinhood</a>, and Patrick Candler of Sherwood Forest Trust join us to open the dig on the 14th of July.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All this has been possible partly due to a new way of funding Community Archaeology in Nottinghamshire- with no expense to the tax payer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All money raised goes to support the project so that people can continue to benefit from FREE access to Community Archaeology in the heart of Sherwood Forest!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This forms part of Mercian's attempt to create a sustainable future for Community Archaeology in Nottinghamshire and Sherwood Forest.</span></div>
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Andy Gaunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716472077838765777noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8364820219691801658.post-75026955302901697982014-07-11T16:45:00.001+01:002014-08-01T18:01:54.470+01:00Nottinghamshire biggest FREE Community Acrhaeology Dig, The Robin Hood's Village Volunteer Dig, Edwinstowe July 14th-25th<div class="Body" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-bottom: 12px; vertical-align: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The project is shaping up to be the largest FREE Community Excavation ever to have taken place in Nottinghamshire in terms of public involvement; with over 100 individual volunteers and villagers signed up to take part over 13 days of archaeological excavation to celebrate the Festival of British Archaeology. We have people from all over the country coming to dig- and even people from as far afield as Australia are attending.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Alongside this we have two groups of Adults with Learning disabilities joining us during the fortnight, the local Beavers group will be coming to dig, and also the Newark and District Young Archaeology Club will be with us during the middle weekend. There are also plans to involve the local schools, care homes and adult education groups.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">We are also fortunate to have the Member of Parliament for Newark and Sherwood, Mark Spencer MP, and Robin Hood (aka Ezekial Bone http://www.ezekialbone.com/robinhood ) joining us to open the dig on Monday morning!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">We are very grateful to Edwinstowe Local History Society, particularly Margaret Woodhead, and Colin and DI Roker.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">and via the project page at http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/robinhood.html and the Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project Page at www.sherwoodforestarchaeology.com</span></span></div>
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<strong style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is the first time Community Archaeology has been supported by crowdfunding in Sherwood Forest!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;">Sherwood Forest is a place of myths and legends known throughout the world as the home of Robin Hood...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;">The Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project enables people from all walks of life to become involved in an amazing community archaeology project...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;">Mercian Archaeological Services as a Community Interest Company provides opportunities for different groups and individuals to experience their Local Heritage together... the Project will engage volunteers from all walks of life and ages... including young people,those currently out of work desiring transferable skills, students needing experience, adults with learning difficulties, through to people wanting to have a go and people wishing to fulfill a lifes abmition... in this landscape of legends and folklore... all overseen by professional community archaeologists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;">Community Archaeology can be a great source of social good as well as education.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;">The project combines community archaeology, research and outreach work- that promotes the archaeology, history and heritage of the wider Sherwood Forest, its landscape and people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;">This research is intrinsically linked to raising the profile and value of the wider Sherwood Forest area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;">Like our fabled Robin Hood this project seeks to help the community- but unlike our popular hero we seek funding from willing donators!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;">All donations will go to fund archaeological research and investigations, allowing the public to gain FREE opportunities to be involved and learn; within the very heart of Sherwood Forest!</span><br />
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Andy Gaunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716472077838765777noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8364820219691801658.post-12642053970236962862014-05-13T15:15:00.003+01:002014-08-01T18:02:42.352+01:00Robin Hood's Village Volunteer Dig- Dates confirmed<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As part of the "Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project" Mercian Archaeological Services CIC will be running the Robin Hood's Village Dig in July 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dig is being run in conjunction with the Edwinstowe Historical Society and will investigate the development of the village through test- pitting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The project is designed to tie in with key regional research objectives and could be of vital importance to understanding the landscape of Sherwood Forest over time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This research forms part of Mercian's long term research in the Forest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a free volunteer dig and has been funded by the Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project has the tag-line The Future of Sherwood's Past and aims to be a new community driven way of undertaking and supporting archaeological and historical research in the forest. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sherwood Forest Archaeology project is a Community Archaeology project- this means involving volunteers and the community in all aspects (where possible) of archaeological research and investigations. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The project is designed to bring sustainability to archaeological projects and investigations in Sherwood Forest by combining a number of funding streams including private, corporate, public and crowd-funding. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The project aims to undertake long-term research across the whole area of Sherwood Forest and beyond. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The project also seeks to be a free resource, where all research and fieldwork are available to the community at large, to foster a greater understanding of the heritage of Sherwood Forest.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The project aims to promote the notion of a wider Sherwood Forest that stretches across the multitude of sites that link together to make up this unique and exciting landscape.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Project engages people from all walks of life and ages; including adults with learning difficulties, young people, as well as those currently out of work desiring transferable skills, students needing experience, and volunteers... in this landscape of legends and folklore... all overseen by professional community archaeologists.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These include guided walking tours of Sherwood Forest, and Clipstone park where people can come along for a heritage ramble through woodland or around ancient heritage landscapes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mercian’s Andy Gaunt will be giving guided tours around the archaeology of Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve over the course of this summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Join him to learn about the history and archaeology of Sherwood Forest, Forest Law, outlaws, villains, Kings, Keepers of the Forest, Robin Hood, daily life in the time of Robin Hood, and some of the sites around the wider Sherwood Forest...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Come and walk in this landscape of legends, meet some of the majestic veteran Oak trees, and see some of the archaeology on the ground (including ridge and furrow, holloways, and World War II remains) and learn from the experts who run the Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tour will start near the visitors centre before heading out through Birklands wood to see the wonderful nature of this ancient landscape, we will eventually make our way up towards the ancient Lings at Budby heath. We will then visit the magnificent Major Oak, before returning to where we started… passing archaeology and hearing about the history of the medieval hunting forest and its landscape along the way…</span><br />
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Andy Gaunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716472077838765777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8364820219691801658.post-11852319990480848362014-04-22T21:43:00.000+01:002014-08-01T18:03:11.563+01:00Medieval Pottery training and analysis days by Mercian Archaeological Services CIC - The Skegby Archive<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mercian Archaeological Services CIC' s David Budge has been using his expertise to train volunteers in Medieval pottery and pottery analysis techniques based around a University of Nottingham Museum archive from excavations in Skegby in the 1960's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorting the finds into context groups, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Re-packaging and labelling the material to comply with modern museum standards to allow more effective curation of the assemblage, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using microscopes and electronic microscopes and computers to analyse minerals in the pottery fabric,</span><br />
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Andy Gaunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716472077838765777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8364820219691801658.post-87248653997625368002014-04-09T14:55:00.000+01:002014-08-01T18:07:27.115+01:00Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project at the Mercian Archaeological Services Spring Conference 2014<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">East Midlands Community Archaeology Conference 2014</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This one day conference featured some of the best work undertaken by local Community Archaeology companies, groups and individuals from around the region.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Community Archaeology has come of age in recent times and heritage groups and volunteers are now setting incredible standards in archaeological research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Community Archaeology is now a fully fledged branch of archaeology and there are also now a whole range of dedicated professionals who are full time Community Archaeology Providers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There has been a sea-change in provision of services to Community groups in recent years with a move away from large commercial companies providing work on the side, and when funding was available - to full-time community archaeology providers and companies like Mercian Archaeological Services CIC who are dedicated to providing support to volunteers and groups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mercian’s first “East Midlands Community Archaeology Conference” reflected this change, with volunteers, groups and professional community archaeologists presenting their results and theories in a lively and informal way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of the old barriers felt broken down as people talked, networked and enthused with other like-minded people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a great day for idea sharing and project discussions, and much was learned through the course of the day about the excellent work being undertaken across the region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Thanks for one of the best conferences I have ever been to, and I have been to a few I can tell you…” - Richard Smith</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Fantastic, enjoyable and informative - real archaeology from the people who love it! Well done to you all” - Chris Rawson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> “Absolutely brilliant day thanks Mercians for bringing together such a totally amazing group of speakers. Loved every bit” - Lorraine Dowen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This one day conference featured some of the best work undertaken by local Community Archaeology companies, groups and individuals from around the region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Community Archaeology has come of age in recent times and heritage groups and volunteers are now setting incredible standards in archaeological research.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Community Archaeology is now a fully fledged branch of archaeology and there are also now a whole range of dedicated professionals who are full time Community Archaeology Providers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mercian Archaeological Services CIC held our first Spring Conference on the 5th April 2014 at the University of Nottingham Archaeology Museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The conference was very well attended, showing the great enthusiasm and appetite for community outreach and knowledge sharing in archaeology, and showcased work by the following speakers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tim Yarnell, The Forestry Commissions Archaeologist for England - Introductions</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stuart Reddish - the Friends of Thynghowe, Nottinghamshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sue Brown and Janet Spavold of the Ticknall Archaeological research Group, Derbyshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John Lock -the Burgage Earthworks project in Southwell, Nottinghamshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James Wright - the Archaeology and History of kings Clipstone Project, Nottinghamshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jim Priest, Volunteer Archaeologist, Sherwood Archaeology Society, Nottinghamshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard Tyndall - Archaeology in Ancaster, Lincolnshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christine Rawson and Alex Sotheran of Elmet Archaeological Services Ltd. South Yorkshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daryl Garton - the Ice Age Journeys, Farndon, Nottinghamshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andy Gaunt of Mercian Archaeological Services CIC- the Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project, Nottinghamshire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There has been a sea-change in provision of services to Community groups in recent years with a move away from large commercial companies providing work on the side, and when funding was available - to full-time community archaeology providers and companies like Mercian Archaeological Services CIC who are dedicated to providing support to volunteers and groups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mercian’s first “East Midlands Community Archaeology Conference” reflected this change, with volunteers, groups and professional community archaeologists presenting their results and theories in a lively and informal way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of the old barriers felt broken down as people talked, networked and enthused with other like-minded people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a great day for idea sharing and project discussions, and much was learned through the course of the day about the excellent work being undertaken across the region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was also lively debate and networking during the refreshment breaks and in the museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Thanks for one of the best conferences I have ever been to, and I have been to a few I can tell you…” - Richard Smith</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Fantastic, enjoyable and informative - real archaeology from the people who love it! Well done to you all” - Chris Rawson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> “Thank you ALL so much. I met so many super-interesting new people today! Great to see so many old faces as well. Thanks for having me on the bill, hope to keep up to date with everyone else's projects for a long time to come as well”. - James Wright</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> “Absolutely brilliant day thanks Mercians for bringing together such a totally amazing group of speakers. Loved every bit” - Lorraine Dowen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Excellent day and thanks to all the Mercian crowd for giving us the opportunity to talk about our projects” - Richard Tyndall</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The conference was very well attended, showing the great enthusiasm and appetite for community outreach and knowledge sharing in archaeology, and showcased work by the following speakers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tim Yarnell, The Forestry Commissions Archaeologist for England - Introductions</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stuart Reddish - the Friends of Thynghowe, Nottinghamshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sue Brown and Janet Spavold of the Ticknall Archaeological research Group, Derbyshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John Lock -the Burgage Earthworks project in Southwell, Nottinghamshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James Wright - the Archaeology and History of kings Clipstone Project, Nottinghamshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jim Priest, Volunteer Archaeologist, Sherwood Archaeology Society, Nottinghamshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard Tyndall - Archaeology in Ancaster, Lincolnshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christine Rawson and Alex Sotheran of Elmet Archaeological Services Ltd. South Yorkshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daryl Garton - the Ice Age Journeys, Farndon, Nottinghamshire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andy Gaunt of Mercian Archaeological Services CIC- the Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project, Nottinghamshire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please also have a look at this excellent review of the day by Lynda Mallett via the Sherwood Heritage blog:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">the Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project will be launching a brand new website in the next few days, and launching a number of</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #333333;"> exciting new funding campaigns and announcing a number of fantastic Community Archaeology projects in the heart of Sherwood Forest- so thank you to Robin Hood for rubber stamping things!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">We were joined by Robin Hood aka </span><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ezekial.Bone" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Ezekial Bone</a> </span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #333333;">of the National Award nominated @Nottingham Town Tour:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">vote for Robin at </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirror.co.uk%2Flifestyle%2Ftravel%2Fbritish-breaks%2Fvote-visitenglands-tourism-superstar-2014-3191570&h=pAQGdVan5&enc=AZM0SU0XA4YI-bHb11VCTmbL2gJ_ATbnCoA2CGZ74r9BQfqoex-PZaB_f2pp-IMWJSrYMnbf26zaM1MkzYrrjue08737oKjhXwY_zFs1b_73IurN2IJnYEZrO1tVsTPQiQLcyAvPtFsCg7WdU5K-wRbA&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;">http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/british-breaks/vote-visitenglands-tourism-superstar-2014-3191570</span></a></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #333333;">These photographs were taken yesterday as part of Mercian's promotion for the project and the upcoming news, and include many prominent members of groups undertaking work in the forest who support the project and its work... a fantastic community day in the forest with members of </span><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Thynghowe" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Friends of Thynghowe</span></a>, </span><span style="color: #333333;">Warsop Path Group, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sherwoodforesttrust" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #444444;">Sherwood Forest Trust</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jollybodgers" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Jolly Bodgers of Sherwood Forest</span></a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/piro.co.uk" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #444444;">The Public Information Research Organisation</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Viking.Sherwood" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #444444;">Viking Sherwood</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, some archaeological volunteers from the project, and the site owners of King John's Palace- the royal heart of Medieval Sherwood Forest</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">More info will be available through the project facebook page </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sherwoodforesthistory" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #444444;">Archaeology and History of Medieval Sherwood Forest</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> very very soon!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Exciting times in Sherwood Forest! thanks to all for your amazing support!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If you have an area of land designated for the protection of Deer for the Kings pleasure to hunt and to eat, then the last thing you want is to share it with other hungry predators.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Perhaps the most feared predator in the forest was the wolf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">There were wolves living wild and hunting in Medieval Sherwood Forest, and we know this because the records tell us of ‘wolf hunters’ employed to chase them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The <i>inquististiones post mortem (</i>inquests after death) for Nottinghamshire for the year 1339 list amongst their number a Walter le Wolfhunte:</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">‘Walter le Wulfhunte held in his demesne as of fee on the day that he died a messuage* and a bovate* of land with appurtenances in Mammesfeldwodehouse in the county of Nottingham of the king in chief, by service of chasing wolves outside of the King’s forest of Shirewood, if any they found.’</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is a wonderful insight into the lesser known positions within forest administration - a man in the king’s manor of Mansfield Woodhouse being directly employed by the king to chase wolves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It also tells us something of the landscape of the forest- one still wild enough to harbour wolves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But most wonderful is the insight it gives us into the people of the forest. What kind of man was Walter the Woolfhunter? A grizzled ‘Davy Crockett’ style man of the woods, hardened and fearless running off into the night, whilst others run the other way?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The same 'Walter de Wulfuntte de Mammesfeldewodehouse' appears in an earlier record. Here he is serving as a regarder (a forest official dealing in the boundaries of land) at the 1287 forest Eyre to testify in cases of assarts (clearing of woodland for arable) against people living in the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">forest</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Sherwood</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The medieval text is in Latin, Walter appears alongside a group of selected men to testify as to what they know, and they include:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A 'Sir Robert Plumpton held one bovate of land in Mansfield Woodhouse, called </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Wolf-hunt land," </i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">by service of winding a horn, and chasing or frightening the wolves in the forest of Sherwood</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">' in 1432 in the reign of Henry VI. (</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Robert White, </span><em style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Worksop, The Dukery, and Sherwood Forest,</em><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> (1875))</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">These few chance survivals in the documentary record offer us a rare and wonderful opportunity to see into the lives and livings of some of the characters of Medieval Sherwood Forest.</span></div>
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The oldest documented mention of 'Sherwood Forest' comes from a charter dating from 958<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">AD</span> granting Scrooby and Sutton cum Lound in north Nottinghamshire from the Crown to the Archbishop of York.</div>
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This charter lists a 'Scirwuda' (Shire Wood) as a boundary mark of the land granted to the Archbishop.</div>
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This reference is often used to suggest that there was a common wood of the shire in the 10th century in Nottinghamshire that belonged to the people and was shared by them.<br />
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The story then goes that the evil Normans came along and took the shared forest away, for the exclusive use of the king.</div>
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As nice as this idea is, there is no clear reference to a forest, or any such shared wood of the shire in Nottinghamshire before the conquest of 1066.</div>
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Plus it is not possible to tie the 10th century Scirwuda in the north of the county, with the Royal Hunting Forest that bore the name Sherwood from the late 12th century onwards.</div>
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The northern boundaries of Sherwood Forest lay 10 miles south of the location of the wood called Scirwuda.</div>
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So although we cannot directly date Sherwood Forest back to pre-conquest times it is possible to learn something of the people of the Sherwood Forest area at the time of the Norman Conquest and before.</div>
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One possibility is that the Forest boundary recorded in the 13th century was a reflection of the original forest boundary (see <a href="http://sherwoodforesthistory.blogspot.com/2011/07/castles-and-sherwood-forest.html" target="_blank">Castles and Sherwood Forest</a> entry for more details).</div>
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It is likely that the forest was created in the years following the Norman conquest, around 1066.</div>
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So who were the people who lived in the area that was- or was to become Sherwood Forest, in the years around the Norman conquest?</div>
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Sadly we cannot know the names of the simple farmers and workers of the land- but the names of some of the landowners from the time of the conquest are recorded in the Domesday book for Nottinghamshire.</div>
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They are the names of the local ruling elite who would suffer by losing their lands in the change of power that came with the Norman Conquest.</div>
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Most of the landowners listed lost their posessions to the incoming Normans by the time that Domesday Book was written in 1086.</div>
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The following is a list of the towns and villages of the Forest, and the names of the original 'Saxon' landowners where they get a mention:</div>
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Nottingham: Earl Tosti (brother of Harold Godwinson who was King of England until the Battle of Hastings) owned land and buildings in the town. </div>
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Hugh son of Baldric was its sheriff.</div>
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Henry, John, Richard, William, Stephen, were all names of the Norman and Angevin kings who ruled between them from 1066 to 1272. </div>
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Locally it would bring with it the Laws of the Forest that would have a huge impact on the landscape and the people of this area. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Archaeologists have helped to prove the size and thus the importance of a Palace that formed the royal heart of Sherwood Forest in the medieval period, by discovering and excavating the previously unknown boundary ditch of the site.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ruins of King John’s Palace in Kings Clipstone are a local landmark famous for their association with ‘Bad King John’, the enemy of Robin Hood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In fact during the medieval period the site was known as the King’s Houses and was an extensive royal palace with an adjacent deer park, located at the heart of Sherwood Forest. The palace was favoured by the crown and visited by all eight monarchs from Henry II to Richard II from the second half of the 12th century until the end of the 14th century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These included Richard the Lion Heart and his brother King John, both intrinsically linked to the Robin Hood legends. Clipstone is the neighbouring village to Edwinstowe, legendary home of Robin Hood as well as the marriage site of Robin Hood and Maid Marion. The site is a stone’s throw from the Major Oak, a 1000 year old veteran oak tree and legendary hideaway of the world famous outlaw. The Major Oak now forms the centre piece of the Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve. If Edwinstowe and the forest lay claim to the legend of Robin Hood, then Clipstone and king John’s Palace have an equal claim to being the royal centre of Sherwood Forest in the medieval period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">King John’s Palace was the site at the centre of this world famous landscape and was used as a royal retreat by the crown for entertaining foreign royalty, and even for housing Parliament in 1290.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sherwood Forest in medieval times was an area of land subject to Forest Law, a set of laws introduced by the Normans to England in in the latter stages of the 11th century. Forest Law protected the Beasts of the Chase (primarily deer known in the records as ‘Venison’) for the exclusive use of the King and also protected the trees and woodland of their habitat known as the ‘Vert’. It was therefore illegal to hunt ‘Venison’ or chop down the ‘Vert’ within a royal Forest without the permission of the King.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sherwood Forest for most of the high medieval period covered a large area roughly 20 miles north to south by 10 miles east to west. Sherwood Forest was not one continuous stretch of woodland and in fact contained many villages and even the town of Nottingham.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Forest provided financial benefits to the crown from the sale of timber and game, but was in essence a giant hunting reserve. Red Deer and Roe Deer were hunted by the Crown across the open heathland and acres of woodland that dominated the landscape. Alongside the native red and roe deer the Norman Kings had a great fondness for Fallow deer, which they imported to England following the Conquest. As a non-native and vulnerable species it was necessary to raise fallow deer within parks constructed for the purpose. These were large extents of land enclosed by a high fence to keep the deer inside and poachers and other animals out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Sherwood Forest Henry II began work on a royal hunting retreat at Clipstone in 1164 and the adjacent deer park in the 1180s. This royal complex would develop over time into a major palace with a vast array of residential quarters, chapels, stables for 200 horses, an artificially flooded lake, rabbit warrens and gardens, surrounded by a designed landscape of deer launds and woodland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Recent archaeological research led by Andy Gaunt of Mercian Archaeological Services CIC and archaeologist James Wright, has helped to reveal the true scale of the palace site. It has shown that the King’s Houses were a substantial Royal Palace which formed the heart of Sherwood Forest in the medieval Period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A geophysical survey in 2010 by Andy Gaunt detected a large anomaly that was interpreted through historic mapping as being the western boundary of the palace. A subsequent excavation in the summer of 2012 led by James Wright (independent consultant) and Andy Gaunt, along with Sean Crossley and David Budge (the latter three now of Mercian Archaeological Services CIC) investigated the anomaly and proved it was the medieval boundary ditch of the complex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ditch contained 13th to 14th century pottery. Excavation also found the remains of an internal bank associated with the ditch. This had been truncated but would originally have been surmounted by a palisade as recorded in the written records. The bank contained pottery sherds from the 13th to 14th century which dated the construction of the bank and ditch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The site was at its most popular and extensive during the reigns of Henry III, Edward I, II and III. Henry III started a period of building in the mid-13th century which continued into the Edwardian period into the 14th century. The site was very popular with Edward I who held a parliament there in 1290. An ancient Oak still stands on the former north-western boundary of the Deer Park which is named Parliament Oak after this prestigious event. The Parliament Oak as it known is now protected under the stewardship of The Sherwood Forest Trust.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1315 during the period of the Great Famine, Edward II stayed for a number of months at Christmas feasting and entertaining. The royal retinue devoured all the fish stocks in the pond and must have equally impacted on the stocks of deer in the park as they were forced to send retainers out into the surrounding counties to search for more food from the already starving populace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1316 Edward II built a fortified ‘Peel’ enclosure as a refuge during difficult times (the War with Scotland) and as a grain and livestock store, in the southern part of Clipstone deer park. He clearly did not intend to run out of food again on his next stay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Edward III subsequently dismantled the Peel and had the buildings re-erected within the Palace site at Clipstone. Thanks to the recent excavations, the palace site is now recognised as covering over seven acres; making it equal to and larger than many of the contemporary royal palaces of medieval England. Over the course of the 20th century academic writing had reduced the status of the site to that of a mere hunting lodge, despite listing all the accommodation and vast expenditure by the crown on the site throughout the medieval period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The recent excavations and investigations have once again reclaimed the title of ‘Palace’ for this very special site at the centre of a landscape which is the backdrop to many of the world’s most famous legends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mercian Archaeological Services are continuing their investigations at the Palace, the Peel and across Sherwood Forest as a whole with volunteers and the community. The work at Clipstone forms part of their ‘Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project’, which promotes the heritage of Sherwood Forest. The project combines community archaeology research and outreach work in Sherwood Forest.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Learn about: Archaeology and History of Medieval Sherwood Forest, including the excavations at King John's Palace and the community archaeology projects at Kings Clipstone in Sherwood Forest; The Heath End Excavation with Targ Archaeology; Surveying withCodnor Castle Heritage Trust; Burton Road excavations in Ticknall; The Hilton village Project with Dove Valley Community Archaeology and much much more...</span></span><br />
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Andy Gaunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716472077838765777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8364820219691801658.post-64221394463041879712013-09-02T14:04:00.000+01:002016-05-25T11:08:59.855+01:00Community Archaeology at King John's Palace, Sherwood Forest with Mercian Archaeological Services CIC<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mercian Archaeological Services CIC</a> recently returned to Kings Clipstone to continue the King John's Palace Project. The project is researching and investigating the Archaeology of the site of the Royal Hunting Lodge and Palace that formed the Heart of Medieval Sherwood Forest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This Community Archaeology Project saw volunteers digging test pits and undertaking a topographic survey of Castle Field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Test pits were located to further understand the layout of the Palace and surrounding landscape- the pits examined the area to the west of the Medieval ditch and bank excavated in the summer of 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The medieval ditch and bank represent the boundary of the site in the 13th-14th century as proven by the 201 excavation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The test pits excavated in the project are located in the demense part of the Waterfield, and the evidence uncovered further supports the boundary ditch as the furthest extent of the site. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The royal palace now known as King John's Palace was the centre for crown activities in Sherwood Forest until the end of the 14th century, with all the Plantagenet Kings from Henry II to Richard II staying there. It was built to accommodate the crown during visits to the forest, where hunting would take place in the royal park adjacent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The report for the boundary ditch excavation will be available to download via <a href="http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mercian's document stores</a> very soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The topographic survey of the site undertaken in August 2013 has helped to show a number of discrete features such as banks and terraces which will further aid in the understanding of the site- 3D results will be available through this site shortly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alongside the King John's Palace Project, Mercian Archaeological Services CIC also undertook the recent Kings Clipstone Village Community Archaeology Project which looked at the development of the village in relation to the palace in Medieval times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A building survey of 2 cottages in the village and discovered medieval walls which formed part of the great gateway to the palace in Medieval times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There will be more </span><a href="http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Community Archaeology in Nottinghamshire</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> coming very soon, with plenty of opportunities to get involved- watch this space for more information...</span><br />
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Andy Gaunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716472077838765777noreply@blogger.com0Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, UK53.160813 -1.126034000000004253.141771999999996 -1.1663745000000043 53.179854 -1.0856935000000041tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8364820219691801658.post-13697973645981159892013-07-08T11:54:00.003+01:002014-08-01T18:11:27.672+01:00Rufford Abbey and the White Monks of Sherwood Forest<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rufford Abbey was founded by Gilbert de Gant in 1146.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The charter confirming the foundation was granted by King Stephen on Christmas day of that year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rufford was a Cisterican Monastery, a daughter house of Riveaulx Abbey in Yorkshire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The abbey was situated just to the West of the King's Highway to York which passed from Nottingham northwards through Sherwood Forest, and the Abbey was an attractive stop-over for weary travellers on the long road through the forest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Abbey sat towards the northern edge of a vast tract of heathland, meadow, woodland and farmland consolidated from the possessions of the villages of Rufford, Crately, and Inkersall, granted to the Abbey. Rufford village had 8 families when the monks arrived, but was abandoned by the end of the Thirteenth Century. Crately was slower to become deserted, but villagers eventually moved to settle in nearby Edwinstowe and the village of Wellow (see <a href="http://sherwoodforesthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/rufford-charters-landscape-people.html" target="_blank">Rufford Charters</a> entry for information about the grants of lands and the Charters recording them).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Church of the Abbey was dedicated to St Mary, and was built in the remote wastes and woods of Sherwood by the Cistercians, who favoured the isolation and separation from the world provided by the forest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Abbey complex included the Church, Cellar, Lay Brothers Frater, Cloister, Kitchens, Monks Frater, Warming House, Undercroft and Dormitory above, Inner Parlour, Chapter House, and Sacristy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The surrounding landscape included areas of Woodland: 'ye abote wode', 'Abott Ymmslow', and 'burne abotote wode'. There were also large areas of heather lyngges, or wastes known as 'the Forest'. The valley of the Rainworth Water to the south of the Abbey was managed as Meadows to provide winter fodder for large numbers of sheep. The Cistercians were prolific sheep farmers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Abbey organised much of these land-holdings into 'Granges'- most of them within a days walk of the Abbey- the best know being Inkersall Grange which sat on Rainworth Water on the southern-most extent of the home estates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As well as the demense farming which provided income for the Abbey, the Monks also possessed large parts of the town of Rotherham in Yorkshire which provided a vast amount of taxable income for the Abbey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Abbey was a popular over night resting place on the great road through the Forest and would have provided welcome accommodation as night fell over the desolate heaths and remote woodland of the High Forest (see <a href="http://sherwoodforesthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/journey-through-sherwood-forest-rufford.html" target="_blank">A Journey through Sherwood Forest: Rufford Abbey to Nottingham</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> post). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Accommodation was provided for free by the monks- so it was essential that the monastery could provide for itself and visitors. The large amounts of farmland kept by the Abbey was therefore of great importance to ensure they could provide for all these travelers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These could include Royalty, and in 1290 Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I stayed here while Edward held Parliament at his nearby Royal Palace and Hunting lodge at Clipstone (see <a href="http://sherwoodforesthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/parliament-oak-clipstone-icon-of.html)" target="_blank">Parliament Oak: Icon of Sherwood Forest</a> entry for more details )</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. In fact the Abbey was among her final resting places as she was ill during her stay there, and died during an attempt to move to Lincoln for Spiritual and Medical help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rufford was a part of the fabric of life in Sherwood Forest for 400 hundred years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It would sadly come to an end in the 1530 under King Henry VIII along with all other monasteries in the Kingdom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the Dissolution of the Monastery the Abbot was accused of being incontinent with two married women and 4 single women- six of the monks were said to be desirous of exemption from their duties- and the monastery was dissolved in 1536 (it is quite likely that these charges were trumped up as they were very convenient for the crown- however <a href="http://sherwoodforesthistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/priests-behaving-badly-in-medieval.html" target="_blank">Priests were often badly behaved</a> at times in Medieval Sherwood Forest).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite this inglorious ending, Rufford Abbey passed into the hands of rich landowners and eventually emerged to become a <a href="http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/enjoying/countryside/countryparks/rufford/" target="_blank">Country Park</a> in the present Day with parts of the Medieval Abbey surviving within the later house. These include the Lay Brothers Frater and the Undercroft which can still be visited to this day.</span><br />
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Andy Gaunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11716472077838765777noreply@blogger.com1Rufford Abbey Country Park, Ollerton, Nottinghamshire NG22 9DF, UK53.1761192 -1.042437199999994853.138462700000005 -1.1231181999999948 53.2137757 -0.96175619999999484tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8364820219691801658.post-17539734376435520552013-07-04T14:01:00.001+01:002014-08-01T18:11:44.246+01:003,000 Facebook Likes for Sherwood Forest Heritage<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Archaeology and History of Medieval Sherwood Forest Facebook page now has over 3,000 followers!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mercian Archaeological Services CIC </a>would like to thank everyone for the amazing support they have shown to their </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Archaeology and History of Medieval Sherwood Forest</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Reaching 3,000 Facebook likes is a fabulous landmark that just goes to show how interested people are in the heritage of this wonderful area, and how close the subject is to so many peoples hearts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This project is ran by <a href="http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mercian Archaeological Services</a> as part of their <a href="http://www.facebook.com/MercianArch" target="_blank">Community Archaeology</a> outreach and is all about promoting Sherwood Forest and its fantastic heritage to as wide an audience as possible around the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This support helps to give a platform for the work undertaken by ourselves and many others in Sherwood Forest, and helps to promote the forest as a whole- reflecting its changing medieval boundaries, which stretch far beyond those in the modern landsape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The community in Sherwood Forest is a strong and vibrant one, and there is a healthy network of groups, landowners, charities, volunteers and companies who give blood sweat and tears everyday to promote this forest </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This collective work hopefully goes someway to helping to protect Sherwood Forest for future generations to know and love too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The work goes on...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Church of St Nicholas' is
first mentioned in the foundation charter of Lenton Priory from 1103-8 where an
annual pension was confirmed to the prior and convent of 15 shillings annually.</span></div>
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contained a Chantry dedicated to St Mary- possibly situated in the Lady chapel which is also mentioned in the records.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was also a Guild or fraternity of St Mary associated with the church.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the Norman conquest the
church found itself in the French quarter of Nottingham outside the walls of
the castle- this location would eventually lead to its downfall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speeds 1610 map suggests the
medieval church had a nave and possibly
one or two isles, along with a west tower complete with a spire. Stapleton in
his 1903 book 'churches and monasteries of Old Nottingham' suggest the tower
and spire were of Decorated Gothic architecture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sadly been destroyed, but the story of its downfall is fantastic in itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Colonel Hutchinson Governor of Nottingham Castle ordered its destruction in
1643 during the English Civil Wars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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diary of Colonel Hutchinson's wife, Lucy states ' There was an old church
called St Nicholas' Church, whose steeple so commanded the platform that the men
could not play the ordnance without woolsacks before them. From this church the
bullets played so thick into the outward Castle Yard that they could not pass
from one gate to another, nor relieve the guards, but with great hazard'
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the town was cleared of Royalists the
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A fabulous tale rich in the
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erected in brick which exists to this day, and is the subject of the photograph above by <a href="http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mercian Archaeological Services CIC</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The Sherwood Forest Archaeology Project
aims to research and promote Sherwood Forest - the most famous forest in
history.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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As the home to the legendary outlaw and hero Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest is
known throughout the world.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The ethos of this project is to promote the Archaeology, History and Heritage
of Sherwood Forest, its landscape and people.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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It aims to support and promote the work of individuals and groups (often
voluntary) who undertake work in the Forest.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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And to raise the profile of this heritage and work to the widest possible
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The project website has had close to 100,000 page views in under two years and
the Facebook page has close to 3,000 followers so far!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Mercian Archaeological Services CIC are a Community Interest Company who
undertake Community Archaeology with and for the community- please like the
Facebook page<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/MercianArch">http://www.facebook.com/MercianArch</a> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Mercian Archaeological Services CIC are currently running and planning many
projects in Sherwood Forest- and we will keep everyone updated as they
progress...</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In February 2013 Mercian Archaeological Services CIC (<a href="http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/">www.mercian-as.co.uk</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/MercianArch">www.facebook.com/MercianArch</a>), a Community Interest Company undertaking <a href="http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/" target="_blank">Community Archaeology</a> Projects in the East Midlands, ran an archaeological project to excavate test pits in the village of Kings Clipstone in the heart of Sherwood Forest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The village north of the Mansfield Road consisted of long and narrow tofts and crofts which extended backwards from the road to the River Maun to the north.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Evidence from the excavation suggests that this part of the village was formed in the 13th century, as an expansion of the settlement around the royal palace that occupied the ground to the south of the road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The interim report for this project will be available to download shortly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The royal palace now known as King John's Palace was the centre for crown activities in Sherwood Forest until the end of the 14th century, with all the Plantagenet Kings from Henry II to Richard II staying there. It was built to accommodate the crown during visits to the forest, where hunting would take place in the royal park adjacent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the summer of July 2012, James Wright of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ArchaeologyHistoryKingsClipstone">https://www.facebook.com/ArchaeologyHistoryKingsClipstone</a> and Andy Gaunt, David Budge and Sean Crossley (now <a href="http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mercian Archaeological Services CIC</a>) excavated trenches across the boundary ditch of the palace complex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This report is being brought to completion over the next few weeks too and will be available to download via <a href="http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mercian's document stores</a>....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is hoped that a number of publications will follow in the coming year which bring together all of the corpus of work undertaken in the village and at the palace to date, including extensive work looking at the landscape of the lordship and forest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There will be more <a href="http://www.mercian-as.co.uk/" target="_blank">community archaeology</a> work coming in the village very soon, with plenty of opportunities to get involved- watch this space for more information...</span><br />
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