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Kristian is delighted to announce that the peat bog at Hoppen, in Northumberland, has afforded terminal Mesolithic and incipient Neolithic dates. We have had the good fortune of interesting Richard Tipping i... more
Sessional Lecturer, Office of Lifelong Learning
Honorary Fellow
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My research interests lie principally in the Stone Age of the North Sea littoral. At the moment, most of my work concerns North Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, but in the summers I can be found digging holes in the Great Lakes region of North America whilst juggling some anomalous projects regarding Medieval fisheries. I still maintain an avid interest in South Scandinavia and intend to return to undertaking some research work here, but I am currently overwhelmed with work in my new home and scarcely have the time to look at what is unfolding back home.
I have two major projects underway. The first is the 'Budle Bay Drainage System Project' and the second is the 'Paxton Before the House Project'. The former is addressed to the study of an extensive wetland tract that flows into Budle Bay which has already afforded some fascinating evidence of Mesolithic and Neolithic occupation. In the latter project, we are seeking to comprehensively investigate the parish of Hutton in the Scottish Borders and have encountered a Bronze Age enclosure, an Iron Age site and will descend on a deserted Medieval village at Fishwick. At the moment, we are also in discussions about a more comprehensive wetland project in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders that we hope to link to studies of similar features in Scandinavia.
At the moment, I have a lovely terminal Mesolithic-incipient Neolithic site at Hoppenwood Bank in Northumberland near the village of Lucker to investigate. The palaeoenvironmental sequence was just taken by Richard Tipping at the University of Stirling and provisionally this shows a fascinating succession indicating that the wetlands were a marl lake at the onset of the Holocene.
We have three large Mesolithic sites along the banks of the River Whiteadder near its confluence with the River Tweed which is affording some fascinating tool forms and raw material distribution patterns. Finally, in the same region, we have encountered a cist burial with All Over Corded Beaker ware and evidence for a Christian church established at Fishwick before AD 1150 and possibly belonging to the Anglian settlement.
