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COMMUNITY LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY AT THYNGHOWE
BIRKLANDS SHERWOOD FOREST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Presentation by:
STUART REDDISH
Friends of Thynghowe
Member of Council for British Archaeology
Landscape InvestigatorIndependent Researcher The Public Information Research Organisation
Thynghowe Viking Assembly
Representatives of three local history groups visit the site 2005
Lordship of Warsop Perambulation 1816
The Summit of Thynghowe 2005
2005
The Summit of Thynghowe 2008
2008
Survey Map 1606
Involving Community at Thynghowe
Sherwood Forest Book and Ancient Boundary Stone
Sherwood Forest Book Records 1251
Budby South Forest trackway and Boundary Stone
Initial Topographical Survey
Spreading the Word
Presentation to the Faeroes Thing Project Conference
Presentation to Politicians, Academics & Historians National Museum of Iceland
Working with LiDAR
Leading experts from English HeritageAnd the Forestry Commission assist with LiDAR interpretation
A LiDAR image of Thynghowe
Revealing the Landscape
Surveying Nether Warsop Gate Ground truthing a feature shown up by LiDAR A storm damaged tree root.
Involving Communities
Recreating the 1816 Perambulation Recreating a Viking Assembly & Wapentake with local school children
A targeted trial trench on Thynghowe
The enclosure and 'Court Circle' revealed
The Thoresby Viking BellDerek Wilson
Heritage InterpretationA Sense of Place
The Danish Warrior Farmers back on Nether Warsop Gate
Re-enactment of our local HistoryA Viking Wic in Sherwood
Sense of place in the Viking wider community
Thynghowe
Publishing Results
Transactions of the Thoroton Society
What we know What we need to know
Thynghowe is an Assembly site established by Danish Viking Warrior Farmers from the great army of Ivar the Boneless 870AD onwards.
● The Danelaw established customary law of the free peasant in this area.
● Site recorded in State Documents from 1251 to 1794.
● Site still in use in 1816● There is a large enclosure
with a sand circle of great size and antiquity.
● Is this the site of the Farm Wapentak of the Honour of Peverill as recorded by Thoroton in 1670?
● How many periods of occupancy have used this site?
● Why did the site stay clear of trees and understory for many hundreds of years even though it is situated in deep forest?
● Can community led landscape archaeology deliver a sense of place?
Thank you to
● Lynda Mallett for project management and photo archive.
● Steve Horne for project management and publications.
● The whole Steering Group of the Friends of Thynghowe for 9 years of dedication.
● The HLF, University College London and NCC.
● Amy Chandler & the team at the Forestry Commission Sherwood Pines.
● Welbeck and Thoresby Estates.● Mercian Archaeological Services
CIC for continued advice & site digs