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The Medieval Settlement Research Group is a multi-disciplinary group that facilitates collaboration between archaeologists, historians, geographers and others.

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@CRLHLeicester To wrap up, our president @DanelawDawn has some concluding remarks. Thanks to Richard Jones and the team at @CRLHLeicester for hosting, and to all the speakers for an excellent day of talks.

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Our spring conference is underway at @uniofleicester - today our theme is Adaptations: Medieval Responses to Environmental Change. First up we have Tudur Davies with ‘Under Pressure: the people on the edge of the peaks’, with some tasty #medieval pollen analysis.

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@CRLHLeicester Finally, David Oates: ‘Clinging to the Upper Fen Edge: the villages of Histon and Impington, Cambridgeshire’. Amid increased flooding, despite the digging of a new drain, Histon Manor had to retreat to higher ground. Tribute paid to all the medieval peasants who dug the ditches!

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It's not too late to apply for up to £5k grant funding for #medievalsettlement research! Find out more here: https://t.co/A4ynFj6HCI

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That brings our Winter Seminar to an end! Thank you to the speakers for a range of fascinating papers, to the organisers, and to everyone attending in-person and online.

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And that is a wrap on today's winter seminar with an excellent range of talks..... @MedSettRG looking forward to the 'Spring' conference in June.....

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Last talk of the day.... Eljas Oksanen on identifying persistent places

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Today's final paper is from Eljas Oksanen (@helsinkiuni @UniofReading), who is speaking on 'Computational approaches to identifying persistent places and detecting diachronic change from artefact scatters'.

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Now Craig Cessford on dmv at DMV.... @MedSettRG

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We're now onto the penultimate paper of the day, 'Clopton, Cambridgeshire: from the 1960s excavations of a deserted medieval village to the 21st-century science of the After the Plague project', from Craig Cessford (@Cambridge_Uni).

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Congratulations to Nora Siegmeth, who has been awarded the 2024 John Hurst Prize for the paper presented this morning titled 'Shaping views: change and use of landscape by medieval elites as exemplified by the case of castle Merkenstein (Austria)'. Very well done!

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Next up Ben Morton on living in small towns..... @MedSettRG

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The final paper of this first afternoon session is from Ben Jervis and Ben Morton (both @uniofleicester): 'In a time of crisis: living in English small towns in 13th-15th century England'.