Revealing The Landscape: Community Archaeology in Viking Sherwood Forest

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Revealing the Landscape: Community Archaeology in Viking Sherwood Forest BIRKLANDS SHERWOOD FOREST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Presentation by:

LYNDA MALLETT & STUART REDDISH Friends of Thynghowe Members of the Nova Scotia Archaeological Society Landscape Investigators & Independent Researchers


King's Wood Sherwood Forest Nottinghamshire


Map of Sherwood Forest

THYNGHOWE

DS N LA K BIR


Lordship of Warsop 1816 Perambulation


Walking the Boundary


Warsop & Edwinstowe Boundary Stones


Ancient Oak Boundary Marker As mentioned in the 1816 Perambulation


The Parliament Oak a boundary tree under which King John held a 'parliament' in 1214 prior to signing the Magna Carta in 1215 as recorded in the 1816 Perambulation document

THYNGHOWE

King's Wood


Hanger Hill in 2005 – still surrounded by plantation trees. Three stones discovered on highest point

Birklands Forest Stone

Edwinstowe Boundary Stone

Warsop Boundary Stone


Birklands Forest Stone which is a finger stone or standing stone that has been earthed up


Summer 2005 on top of Hanger Hill

Birklands Forest Stone


The mound and top of Thynghowe/Hanger Hill


In 874 the Great Heathen/Danish Army overwintered in Repton having sailed along the River Trent from the North Sea


The Great Heathen/Danish Army 865 – 878 Map attribution Hel-hama (additions/changes L Mallett)

Thynghowe


The Friends of Thynghowe taking a community group on the celebration of the 200 year anniversary of the 1816 Perambulation


Friends of Thynghowe trail marker with a Warsop Boundary Stone


A 'wapentake' on Thynghowe All those in favour say aye!


Thing/Ding/Thyng sites in Shetland & Orkney, Faroe Islands, Norway, Thingvellir Iceland


A Sense of place in the Viking wider community

Thynghowe


An artistic impression of a Thing Assembly


Magnetometer Survey Dr Stuart Brookes UCL Landscapes of Governance


Ancient Boundary Stones These are not local stone and are older than the Parish boundary stones


St Edwin's Cross – the site where King Edwin's body was laid as he was carried through the forest after he was slain in battle in 633

King's Wood


This Sherwood Forest Book recorded ownership and Forest law


The ruined remains of 'King John's Palace' or the Kings Houses Started by Henry II and used by all the Plantagenet kings It was a large complex with a Deer Park that was used for hunting This is approximately 3 miles south of Thynghowe


The Belvoir Map from the archives of the Duke of Rutland


1609 Forest Survey Clearly showing Thynghowe and the Birklands Forest Stone

Thynghowe


Ground truthing and surveying Nether Warsop Gate


Conroi De Vey local re-enactment group walking along Nether Warsop Gate A newly discovered Viking trackway that leads to Thynghowe


Viking Spring Thing Regia Anglorum demonstrating food of the age, a boat burial, and coin striking


Viking Spring Thing The arena and the wyc


A school visit to Thynghowe


Community Archaeology Dig Thynghowe April 2016


Warsop 1816 to 2016 Perambulation celebration Each person got a bag with bread, cheese and ale (soft drink for kids!)


Viking Spring Thing May 2016


The 'summit' of Thynghowe


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