Tees Archaeology Day

The early medieval period in northern England

New research over the last 5 years, including the amazing Hart Close site!

 

 

Location: Jim Cooke Suite, Stockton Library, TS18 1TU

 

Time: 9:30am-4pm

 

Date: Saturday 3rd October 2026

 

Cost: £25 adults, £15 students/people in full-time education, including tea/coffee & biscuits, and a lovely buffet lunch with soft drinks

 

Topics: Hart, Yeavering, Lindisfarne, York, Norton and Ingleby Barwick

 

Programme:

 

 

9:30am Registration – Jim Cooke Suite, Stockton Library

 

9:50-10:00 Introduction – Emma Watson, Tees Archaeology

 

10:00-10:30 Sarah Semple – New multi-period perspectives on the Early Medieval Palace at Yeavering

 

10:30-11:00 Katherine Bradshaw – 5th-11th century pottery in York

 

 

11:00-11:15 Coffee, tea and biscuits

 

 

11:15-11:45 Richard Carlton – Lindisfarne

 

11:45-12:45 Holly Drinkwater – “Whose skull is it anyway? Untangling the evidence from Early Medieval Hart.”

 

 

12:45-1:30 Buffet lunch and soft drinks

 

1:30-2:30 The people of Hart: Life, Death and Violence in Early Medieval England – Jordi Ruiz Ventura, Elina Petersone Gordina and Malin Holst

 

 

2:30-2:45 Coffee, tea and biscuits

 

 

2:45-3:15 Tessi Loeffelmann – Early Medieval cremations from Ingleby Barwick

3:15-3:30 Matthew Lee – Kinship at East Mill Lane, Norton: A Dental Perspective

 

3:30-4:00 Q and A session and closing statements

 

 

Book now:

Payment can be made by cash, cheque or direct payment via card.

 

Simply call Hartlepool Art Gallery:

01429 869706

10am – 4pm Tuesday-Saturday

Don’t forget to provide contact details and dietary information.

 

For anything else, please email Emma Watson for more information: emma.watson2@hartlepool.gov.uk

 

Or write to:

Sir William Gray House

Clarence Road,

Hartlepool,

TS24 8BT