Lunch at the Rose and Crown in this extraordinary village – as if of the eighteenth century. Richard (Hingley) – discussing things Roman
posts – matters of design
looking out and looking up
To the left – oriel window, added by Richard of York, looking out over the upland estate from the Lord’s Hall. To the right – garderobe (latrine), with a finely corbeled chute. Barnard Castle, Teesdale UK, one of the great medieval fortresses of the north
public and private
Dublin. Buswell’s. I have been waiting for it to happen. I take photos of the textures of everyday life. Everyday life is under challenge. Ireland is on the brink of ruin. “We are back to the old three ‘Ps’ Michael”, someone says to me – “Pints, Ponies … and I can’t remember the third” ……
Revs in the news again
Our Revs program is well represented in the Sacramento Bee today – Cars are topic of academic inquiry at Stanford University program – Sacramento News. The Program was at Laguna Seca again this weekend – working on the Abarth Porsche:
Heritage as design (continued)
Felipe Criado Boado (CSIC, the Spanish National Research Council and INCIPIT, the Institute of Heritage Sciences in Santiago de Compostela) is with us in the Archaeology Center for a couple of weeks. This evening he lectured about the way his new institute is approaching heritage. Heritage – the footprint of memory and oblivion – a…
heritage design – aspiration and redemption
Tuesday July 19, Westminster, London (This is the report on our previously noted visit – [Link]) Bianca Carpeneti and Michael Shanks visiting Alan Campbell MP at the House of Commons Our current work on the archaeological project at Binchester UK includes a major focus on cultural resource management (CRM), as it gets called in the…
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