Brian, who is well known to many ERAS members, has been leading a most successful project around this nationally significant battle which will be the topic of a TV programme featuring Dan Snow. The timing is most appropriate as it coincides with the Bayeaux Tapestry exhibition at the British Museum which commemorates the other famous battle of that year.

Image © Chris Rock/The Stamford Bridge Tapestry Project

Lectures are held in Lecture Room 1 of the Wilberforce Building. University of Hull, starting at 7.30pm. Lectures are free to members and £3 for non-members. They will also be streamed online for members, with a link being sent out for each in due course.

Our first lecture is on 16th Sept and will feature Dr Jim Leary and Dr Elaine Jamieson talking about another season of the University of York excavations at Skipsea

This is a welcome return by Jim (Senior Lecturer in Archaeology) and Elaine (Associate Lecturer in Landscape Archaeology) who have for the last few years hosted ERAS visits to their dig. Results are proving to be ever more interesting with evidence of activity around the famous castle site extending backwards into prehistory with important new insights into the early medieval period.

The Field Studies session scheduled for 6th May will be replaced by field trip to Skipsea excavations on 26th May, meaning there will be no Field Studies session on 6th May.

Please remember to email Matt at [email protected] to secure a place on the field trip.

On Tuesday 26th May at 3pm we will be visiting the multi-period University of York excavations at Skipsea.

This will involve a tour of the site by Drs Elaine Jamieson and Jim Leary and a chance to examine some of the finds.  Highlights include the early medieval structures on Sparrow Croft, including a possible malthouse and cellared tower structure, and prehistoric artefacts and deposits along the shores of surrounding wetland areas.  

To book a place, please email Matt at: [email protected]

For more information about this extremely interesting site, please see here: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2026/research/lordly-centre-revealed-skipsea-castle/

Photo courtesy of University of York.