Fields of Conflict Conference

4th INTERNATIONAL FIELDS OF CONFLICT CONFERENCE

Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK
29 September - 3 October 2006

In association with the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, English Heritage, the Royal Armouries, the Battlefields Trust and Leicestershire County Council.
Organisers: Paul Stamper (English Heritage) and Glenn Foard (Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds and Battlefields Trust)

This conference was sponsored by The British Academy.

The fourth biennial international conference on battlefield archaeology took place in Leeds, UK, between Friday 29 September and Tuesday 3 October 2006. The conference took place in the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, which houses one of the world's premier collections of arms and armour from the last millennium. The optional following two days (2-3 October) comprised visits to several major English battlefields, including Towton and Bosworth, where investigations are in progress.

For any queries about the programme please contact ims@leeds.ac.uk

Programme - please click on the paper to read the abstract:

Friday:
Keynote Speech
18:30 - 19:30 Keynote Speech: Douglas Scott: Shot and Shell Tell the Tale: The Rise of Battlefield and Conflict Archaeology – A Short Retrospective

Saturday:
Day One: Britain and Ireland
09:00 - 11:00 Session One: The Medieval Battlefield
Chair: Richard Morris
09:00 - 09:20 Matthew Strickland: The Longbow in Battle
09:20 - 09:40 Simon Stanley: The Medieval Longbow: Construction and Performance
09:40 - 10:00 David Mason: Heronbridge, England: AD616 Mass grave
10:00 - 10:20 Linda Fibiger: From Brawl to Battle: Recognising and recording violence and warfare in Ireland
10:20 - 10:40 Veronica Fiorato: Battle Chapels

11:10 - 12:20 Session Two: Science and Forensics
Chair: Richard Morris
11:10 - 11:30 Graeme Rimer: Cuts, Stabs and Blunt Trauma: Identifying the weapons which injured the Towton bodies
11:30 - 11:50 David Starley/Rachel Cubitt: Arrowheads: Taking a Closer Look
11:50 - 12:10 Rob Janaway & A. S. Wilson: Rust Never Sleeps: the taphonomic effects of burial environments on battlefield assemblages

13:50 - 15:40 Session Three: Of Pike and Shot
Chair: John Childs
13:50 - 14:10 Damian Shiels: Fort & Field: the archaeology of the siege and battle of Kinsale, 1601
14:10 - 14:30 Lila Rakoczy: Exploring an Overlooked Casualty of War: finding meaning and methodology in castle destruction
14:30 - 14:50 Peter Harrington: Civil War Siege Evidence from Early Castle Clearances
14:50 - 15:10 Glenn Foard: From Battlefields to Wrecks, from Armouries to Artillery Ranges: Interpreting 17th century bullets
15:10 - 15:30 Tony Pollard: Culloden: a laboratory for battlefield archaeology

16:10 - 17:30 Session Four: Managing and Conserving battlefields
Chair: John Childs
16:10 - 16:25 Malcolm Cooper: Scotland
16:25 - 16:40 Brian Malaws: Wales
16:40 - 16:55 Paul Walsh: Ireland
16:55 - 17:10 Paul Stamper: England

18:45 - 19:30 Conference Address: Richard Holmes, Men and microterrain: making sense of battlefields
Introduced by Michael Rayner

Sunday:
Day Two: Worldwide
09:00 - 10:30 Session One: USA

09:00 - 09:20 Jonathan Damp: For the Want of a Nail: the battlefield archaeology of Hawikku and the european invasion of the American Southwest
09:20 - 09:40 James Snead: Destruction in Context: landscapes of conflict at Burnt Corn Pueblo
09:40 - 10:00 Chris Adams: Metal Detecting Reconnaissance Survey of a Mescalero Apache Stronghold, Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico, USA
10:00 - 10:20 Lawrence Babits: Fort Dobbs on the Carolina Frontier

11:00 – 12:30 Session Two: USA
Organised & chaired by Charles Haecker
11:00 – 11:20 Wade Catts, Joseph Balicki, Peter Siegel, “A System of Easy Manuvers...": Archaeological Evidence of a Musketry Range at Valley Forge National Historical Park , Pennsylvania , USA
11:20 – 11:40 Michael Pratt: Detecting the Crooked Trail: an archaeological perspective on the British victory at Mackinac Island , August 4, 1814
11:40 – 12:00 Michael Strutt: The Battle of San Jacinto - A First Look
 
13:40 – 15:45 Session Three: Mainland Europe
Organised by the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, University of Glasgow & chaired by Tony Pollard
13:40 – 14:00 Susanne Wilbers-Rost and Achim Rost: The Battle of Varus 9 A.D.: actions in a defile: attempts of an interpretation & the results of metal detecting and excavations
14:00 – 14:20 Kelly DeVries: The battlefield of Crécy: chroniclers, archaeologists, and historians
14:20 – 14:30 John & Patricia Carman: The European Military Revolution: a landscape approach
14:30 – 14:50 Bo Knarrstrom: Recent Developments within Swedish Battlefield Archaeology

15:30 – 17:00 Session Four: Mainland Europe
Organised by the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, University of Glasgow & chaired by Iain Banks
15:30 – 15:50 Tomas Englund (paper presented by Bo Knarrstrom): Sodra Staket 1719: archaeological investigation of a Swedish battlefield
15:50 – 16:10 Catherine Rigeade, Emma Rabino Massa, Michel Signoli: Martin Du Nord’street (Douai,France) and Vilnius (Lithuania): two examples of military mass graves from eighteenth and the nineteenth century
16:10 – 16:30 Richard Burt, Peter Doyle, Robert R. Warden, Bruce Dickson, Mark E. Everett, James Bradford: The survey and documentation of the D-day battlefield at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France: using documentation to understand historic events; Construction, Engineering and Destruction
16:30 – 16:50 Natasha Ferguson: Conservation and Management of battlefields in Ireland: fighting a losing battle?

17:00 – 17:30 Final Discussion
Discussion opened by Douglas Scott with a brief review of the conference in the light of his Keynote Speech.
Discussion chaired by Richard Morris

Monday - Tuesday:
Optional battlefields tour

Monday: Marston Moor and Towton; for more details on Marston more click here.

Tuesday: Bosworth
A chance to review both the ongoing battlefield survey and the major revitalisation of the Visitor Centre. For more details see the information of the UK Battlefield Resource Centre.

List of Speakers and Abstracts
Poster Presentations

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