Main image: Curious shoe outlines cut into a lead plaque, St Mary’s church, Chalk, Kent Tuesday 5th December 2023 @ … More
Author: Wayne Perkins
‘Historic Graffiti & Ritual Protection Marks in the Worcestershire Churches’
Main image: You need hands! The stone bench inside the porch of St Peter in Little Comberton, Worcestershire is festooned … More
Illustrated Talks 2023 – 2024
Main image: Bellarmine, Bartmaan or ‘Greybeard’ salt-glazed bottle. Tuesday 13th June 2023 @ 8pm. ‘Witch Bottles: Decoy, Spirit-trap or Counter-witchcraft … More
Spiritual Middens: Decoys, Spirit Traps or Counter Witchcraft Measures?
Thu, 16 February 2023, 20:00 – 21:30 GMT Online talk via Zoom Archaeologists regularly discover large collections or ‘caches’ of … More
History Society Finds: Concealed Shoes, two Witch Bottles & a ‘Witch’s Nail’ from Charing, Kent.
Pat Winzar (1920 – 2012) was an archaeologist and historian who worked on Eccles Roman Villa and became Council member … More
If the walls could speak………..
Examples of figurative art among graffiti corpora are relatively common but no more straight forward to interpret than some of … More
‘The Medieval & Historic Graffiti in the Borough of Swale’
Friday 3rd February 2023, @ 7.30pm £5 An Illustrated Talk by Wayne Perkins ‘In person‘ only Sheppey Little Theatre, Meyrick Road, Sheerness … More
The ‘Littlest’ Green Man
The small face of a Green Man carved into the spandrel of the 14th century arcading, St Mary the Virgin, … More
A Discovery of Angels: How an Anglo-Saxon Chapel Gave up Its Secrets
A fine example of how a multi-disciplinary approach to archaeology can unlock the secrets of ancient buildings. An Ancient Building … More
John Schorn: the Rector Who Conjured the Devil Into A Boot
Hosted by the London Fortean Society Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street E1 7EX (Tubes: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East) Date: 28th … More