MSRG Upcoming Events

Medieval Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology 4:
Central Eastern Europe

Saturday 25 March 2023, 1000-1300 GMT (Held online)

Carenza Lewis
MSRG President
Welcome and Introduction
Claudia Theune
University of Vienna
‘Infrastructure archaeology and medieval rural settlement in Austria’
Zdravko Dimitrov
National Archaeological Institute
(NAIM-BAS), Sofia
‘Necropolis from the end of the 14th century in the territory of the Kingdom of Vidin’
Paweł Duma
University of Wrocław
‘Infrastructure archaeology and medieval rural settlement in Poland’
Tibor Rácz
Ferenczy Museum Centre
Edit Sárosi
Budapest History Museum
‘Infrastructure archaeology and medieval rural settlement in Hungary’

2023 Spring Conference:
Medieval Rural Settlement in Wales and South West England

Saturday 15 April 2023, 0930-1830 GMT (John Percival Building, Cardiff University, Wales)

The Medieval Settlement Research Group’s 2023 Spring Conference will be held at Cardiff University on 15 and 16 of April. The theme of the conference is Medieval Rural Settlement in Wales and South West England: Recent Research and New Perspectives.

Papers will be heard on the Saturday, with a field trip to medieval sites in the Vale of Glamorgan on the Sunday. The conference fee includes lunch. Saturday’s papers will take place in the John Percival Building (Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU). There is limited pay and display parking (payable via an app) at the John Percival and further pay and display parking close by on Kind Edward VII Avenue. The closest train station is Cathays, which is just 3 mins walk from the venue.

The full programme will be confirmed shortly. Details of speakers are available via the Eventbrite booking page – click below!


Medieval settlement and infrastructure archaeology seminar series 2021-2022

The inaugural seminar in this series took place in April 2021, and was so successful that we decided to extend it to four seminars, rather than the two originally planned. Papers from our first and second seminars, featuring current work in the UK and Ireland and northern and central Europe, are now available to view on our YouTube channel.

Previous seminar:

Medieval Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology 3:
Southern Europe

Carenza Lewis
University of Lincoln
Welcome and Introduction
Paul Arthur
University of Salento
‘Infrastructure archaeology and medieval rural settlement in Italy’
Andrej Janeš
Croatian Conservation Institute, Zagreb
‘Infrastructure archaeology and medieval settlement in Croatia’
Edith Peytremann
Inrap and CRSHAM, Caen
 ‘A new reading of the fabric of the village: the contribution of preventive archaeology to the knowledge of rural settlement of the early Middle Ages in France’
Jesús Fernández Fernández
University of Oviedo
‘A review of aspects of infrastructure archaeology and medieval rural settlement in Spain’

The next seminar in this series is currently in planning, so watch this space for further information on the dates and the programme. Please contact Dr Susan Kilby if you have any questions.


For more conferences see the Council for British Archaeology Events page.