We are pleased to announce the winners of the Spring round of our Research Grant awards.
In this round we are making two Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Research Grant awards.
SPMA is supporting a project by Sarah Inskip (University of Leicester). Sarah will investigate an unusual early modern burial site in Haffen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This multidisciplinary research project requires expertise in bioanthropology, biomolecular science, geochemistry and archaeology. The aim is to establish the group’s demographics, diet, origin and any possible traumas indicating military conflict. The award amount is £1,800.
Osteoarchaeologist Dr Sarah Inskip is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History. Her research focuses on revealing the impact of tobacco on the health of Western Europeans from 1600-1900.
Additionally, we are sponsoring archaeologist and ceramic specialist Derek Hall on a larger excavation project in Glencoe, Scotland, associated with the Glencoe Massacre of 1692. SPMA is financing the chemical analysis of ceramics from the 2025 excavation season. The project will provide new insights into contacts between Scotland and continental Europe in the 17th century, painting a very different picture of the Scottish Highland clans and their trading networks. The Society is sponsoring the analyses with £200.
Derek Hall is an experienced field archaeologist. He was an Historic Scotland Inspector of Ancient Monuments prior to being appointed as Deputy Director of Scottish Urban Archaeological Trust, a role he fulfilled until 2009. He has extensive research interests in Scottish Medieval Pottery, medieval hospitals, monastic granges and works on the Scottish Medieval Deer parks project. He is currently Editor of the Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal and was formerly editor of Medieval Ceramics.