The Royal Archaeological Institute Annual Conference 2012 LEGACIES OF NORTHUMBRIA: RECENT THINKING ON THE 5TH - 14TH CENTURIES IN NORTHERN BRITAIN Friday 28th September 2012: 19:00 - Keynote Lecture - Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp ‘50 years of Northumbrian archaeology: what we didn’t know then, what we don’t know now’ Followed by a Wine Reception Saturday 29th September 2012: 09:00 - 09:30 Registration 09:30 - 10:00 Dave Petts (University of Durham) ‘Recent Research at Roman Binchester’ 10:00 - 10:30 Rob Collins (PAS/Newcastle University) ‘The Frontier Foundations of Northumbria: Barbarians, Soldiers, and ‘Saxons’’ 10:30 - 11:00 Tea and Coffee 11:00 - 11:30 Graeme Young (Bamburgh Research Project) ‘The Anglo-Saxon fortress of Bamburgh: the archaeological evidence’ 11:30 - 12:00 Paul Bidwell & Jonathan McKelvey (Tyne & Wear Museums) ‘The Anglo-Saxon settlement at Shotton, South Northumberland: Excavations in 2009-10 and their implications’ 12:00 - 12:30 Christopher Ferguson (University of Oxford) ‘Coastal landscape and settlements in North Northumbria’ 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break 13:30 - 14:00 Steve Sherlock ‘Street House Finds: status and wealth in a seventh century cemetery’ 14:00 - 14:30 Paul Johnson & Gail Hama (Northern Archaeological Associates) ‘From Bedsteads to Boxes: the continuing association of Furniture with Death in the mid Anglo-Saxon period’ 14:30 - 15:00 Colm O’Brien & Max Adams (Newcastle/Sunderland Universities) ‘Some observations on monastic estates in Northumbria’ 15:00 - 15:30 Tea and Coffee 15:30 - 16:00 Letty ten Harkel (University of Oxford) ‘Northumbrian hoards in context: (i) the landscape context’ 16:00 -16:30 Gareth Williams(British Museum) ‘Northumbrian hoards in context: (ii) the political and economic context’ 16:30 -17:00 Gareth Dean (University of York) ‘Urban neighbourhood assemblages: Spatial and Social Development in York, c.600-900’ The Royal Archaeological Institute Annual Conference 2012 Sunday 30th September 2012: 09:30 - 10:00 Lauren Whitnah (University of Notre Dame) ‘The ‘Sancterranean’ landscape of Northumbria in the Twelfth Century’ 10:00 - 10:30 Nick Baker (Knowsley Hall, Merseyside) ‘Compunction in Early Medieval Northumbria: Literature, Manuscript Art & Sculpture’ 10:30 - 11:00 Amanda Denton (University of York) ‘Bewcastle and Ruthwell: a case of Squabbling siblings?’ 11:00 - 11:30 Tea and Coffee 11:30 - 12:00 Andy Agate (UCL/Newcastle University) TBC 12:00 - 12:30 Robin Daniels (Tees Archaeology) ‘Creating the Medieval North, 1050–1250 AD’ 12:30 - 12:45 Concluding Remarks Sunday afternoon concludes with a trip to Bede’s World Museum, Jarrow. Monday 1st October 2012: Coach trip to North Northumberland, including Bamburgh, Holy island, Alnwick and Yeavering.