This is such an amazing project Caroline Pudney - University of Chester

On Thursday 13th June 2024 at 1pm CAS members are invited to our visit to Chester Cathedral for an introduction by Aleta Doran (Artist in Residence at the Cathedral 2019-2024) to the stained-glass work of Trena Cox. Booking not required. See more information on the poster below.

If you like buildings, superstitions, and cats, you will love this Greyfriars Abbey find in the fantastic Elgin Museum!

One for Marc Mulholland today: at fabulous Elgin Museum, a ceramic International Socialist button badge made by Josiah Wedgwood for the 1910 Kongress in Copenhagen, owned by James Ramsay MacDonald!

The reenactment season is fast approaching! I'm really looking forward to taking my medieval masonry gear to the amazing St John's Church in Chester on Saturday April 13th and talking to the public about the construction methods of the Chapter House!

Huge thanks to Historic Scotland and wonderful staff at #elgincathedral - Isla loved her Easter Egg hunt today!

Many images in our photographic collections portray #women having busy working lives, often with business interests to consider in addition to raising families - like 'Caller herrin' in #Whitby #EYAWomen

New (open access) article online:

Christopher Tinmouth, 'The Impact of the Anglo-Scottish Wars (1286–1347) upon Institutional Memories in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Monastic Chronicles and Cartularies of Furness and Byland'

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

For #FindsFriday Check out our 3D model of a Civil War period die - possibly modified for cheating! It came from our amazing student excavations in Grosvenor Park CWAC Museums University of Chester in #3D , #VR or #AR skfb.ly/oSo7E via @sketchfab

Thanks for letting us work with your fantastic pupils-our Hist&ArchChester University of Chester History students really enjoyed the experience. CWAC Museums

Excited to be giving our final Hist&ArchChester research seminar paper in a week and a half - hybrid: come along in person or online via Teams! 😀👇

Useful archaeological research funds available from ChesterArchSoc 👏👇

We are very pleased to share that Dr Toby Driver’s recent talk on ‘Rethinking Welsh Hillforts’ at The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion is now available to view online. Enjoy! #Hillfort #Welshhistory

zurl.co/zCMF

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Very exciting news! SCBI 73 has appeared, on early medieval coins and related finds from the Isle of Man. It is a huge achievement by the author, Kristin Bornholdt Collins. Anyone interested in Man, Ireland, western Britain or the viking economy should see it.

It's here! We're thrilled to share our short film *Straeon Mewn Maen* (Stories in Stone).

You can watch the film with either Welsh or English sub-titles on YouTube at buff.ly/3wJNi1q

Great news! Latest addition to the 2024 edition of our journal is the report by Chris Matthews and Nick Dawson of Clwyd-Powys Archaeology on the 2022 excavations at Townfield Lane, Farndon, which produced a #Roman enclosure and #earlymedieval ironworking.

CIfA has launched a bursary specifically for an early career #archaeologist to attend the CIfA2024 conference on 24 & 25 April in Chester, along with other bursaries. For further info about bursaries: archaeologists.net/cifa2024-bursa…, and the conference: archaeologists.net/annual-confere…

Do you have an archaeological project of clear and lasting public value in #Cheshire that would benefit from a small grant from our St John's House? Do you have ideas on research on Portable Antiquities discoveries? See our Grants and Awards page chesterarchaeolsoc.org.uk/grants-and-awa…

Huge thanks to Heather Beeton for a terrific review of Portable Antiquities records over the last year for ChesterArchSoc - those medieval figurines were wonderful! 👇👏

Don't forget our next lecture on Wednesday 6 March at 7:30pm: Heather Beeton Heather Beeton on 'Recording the Past for Our Future: The Portable Antiquities Scheme in Cheshire’.