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Our Week at Heritage Lincolnshire – Work Experience Blog
Our week has been great and filled with so many different activities. This work experience hasn’t just been your bog standard shadowing but has been interactive and engaging with activities…
Read MoreLincolnshire’s dry summer makes its mark
‘Ghost’ outlines appearing in fields across the county
Read MoreIntroduction
Many architecturally-fine Lincolnshire country houses with grand gardens have been demolished since WWI and WWII. However, it may come as a surprise, sufficient remnants of garden features remain to throw…
Read MoreWhat Does Your Heritage Look Like In Action: Heritage Futures Workshop
On a drizzling Friday, a gathering of Lincolnshire’s heritage enthusiasts learnt about planning for the future of their treasured heritage assets. This workshop was delivered by Heritage Lincolnshire in partnership…
Read MoreLincolnshire Gardens Trust
We hope you have found this online course both enjoyable and informative. Our thanks to Steffie Shields for researching and providing all of the course content. Should you wish to…
Read MoreChurches
What survives today Topic 1: Churches The most common and obvious medieval building found in villages, towns and cities is the church. This was an important community building and often…
Read MoreMilling
Monasteries, manors & economic powerhouses Topic 2: Milling One of the rights that the manor would hold, is the right to own a mill and mill grain. Water mills The…
Read MoreLooking further afield: Field patterns, distribution and the settlement heirarchy
Having looked at what medieval remains still survive in our modern settlements, let us now look at how we can set those remnants into a wider landscape. To do this…
Read MoreLights, Camera, Action at the Old King’s Head
Investing in Lincolnshire’s young talent to Save The Old King’s Head!
Read More13th to 15th Century
Topic 1: 13th to 15th Century Although gunpowder weapons were used from the end of the 13th century onward, their use in large numbers for mass effect wasn’t fully established until…
Read MoreDocumentary Research
Topic 2: Documentary Research Lincs to the Past in Topic 1 can give you the location of specific records, and they are often a good starting point for documentary research.…
Read MoreOnline research
Topic 1: Online research Online research has the advantage of being available in the comfort of your own home and at any time that suits you. It can provide a…
Read MoreThe influence of the natural landscape
Topic 2: The influence of the natural landscape When we look at the landscape, we are seeing the effects of natural processes (the natural landscape) and the effects of people…
Read MoreTools for investigating landscapes
In this course, we will be introducing you to some of the methods that can be used to study a site and the landscape around it. For convenience, we have…
Read MoreLooking at the landscape
For thousands of years the Lincolnshire landscape has been shaped by nature and people. When archaeologists look at the landscape, they try to work out what is created by nature…
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