Hugh Willmott (archaeologist)

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Hugh Benedict Willmott FSA MCIfA (born 1972) is a British archaeologist and academic. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on medieval England, with a particular interest in monastic archaeology.

Biography[]

Willmott attended The University of Durham from 1991 to 1999, obtaining the degrees of BA, MA and PhD. On leaving university, he worked for a short period in commercial archaeology before being appointed a lecturer in archaeology at The University of Sheffield in 2004, where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2010.[1]

Research[]

Willmott's research focuses on the archaeology of England between c. 600–1600 A.D. He has published on diverse topics such as glassmaking, dining, early ecclesiastical settlements and the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

He has also directed a number of notable excavations;

Professional and public engagement[]

In the past Willmott has served on the committees of The Finds Research Group and the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology. He is currently a council member of The Royal Archaeological Institute, the chair of The Society for Church Archaeology and the archaeological advisor to the Diocese of Sheffield.[10] He was elected a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists in 2002 and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2005. In 2017 Willmott was featured as one of the University of Sheffield's Inspirational Academics.[11]

Publications[]

Books[]

  • The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales. (2020). ISBN 9781781799543
  • Glass from the Gnalić Wreck. (2006). ISBN 9616328425
  • A History of English Glassmaking AD43-1800 (2005) ISBN 0752431315
  • Consuming Passions: Dining from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (2005) ISBN 0752434454
  • Early Post-Medieval Vessel Glass in England (2002) ISBN 190277129X

Recent book chapters and papers[]

  • A Black Death mass grave at Thornton Abbey: the discovery and examination of a fourteenth-century rural catastrophe.[12]
  • Of saints, sows or smiths? Copper-brazed iron handbells in Early Medieval England.[13]
  • Glaziers and the removal, recycling, and replacement of windows during the Reformation in England.[14]
  • Medieval cooking, dining and drinking.[15]
  • Excavations at the Priory of St. Mary Magdalene of Lund, Monk Bretton.[16]
  • Saxon glass furnaces at Glastonbury Abbey.[17]

References[]

  1. ^ Sheffield, University of. "Willmott, H - Our Staff - Archaeology - The University of Sheffield". www.sheffield.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  2. ^ Historic England. "Bronze Age bowl barrow, Anglo-Saxon settlement and medieval manorial settlement, West Halton (1435726)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  3. ^ "Barnsley Independent (Week 29)". Issuu. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  4. ^ "Black Death plague pit excavated". 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  5. ^ "Skeletons of child plague victims discovered in Lincolnshire". The Independent. 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  6. ^ "Anglo-Saxon 'island' unearthed in field". 2016-03-02. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  7. ^ Siddique, Haroon (2016-03-01). "Remains of Anglo-Saxon island discovered in Lincolnshire village". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  8. ^ "Anglo-Saxon 'lavish' burials unearthed". 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  9. ^ Krakowka, Kathryn (2019-01-03). "Anglo-Saxon cemetery found in Lincolnshire". Current Archaeology. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  10. ^ Sheffield, University of. "Willmott, H - Our Staff - Archaeology - The University of Sheffield". www.sheffield.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  11. ^ Inspirational Academics - Dr Hugh Willmott, retrieved 2020-01-08
  12. ^ Willmott, Hugh; Townend, Peter; Swales, Diana Mahoney; Poinar, Hendrik; Eaton, Katherine; Klunk, Jennifer (February 2020). "A Black Death mass grave at Thornton Abbey: the discovery and examination of a fourteenth-century rural catastrophe". Antiquity. 94 (373): 179–196. doi:10.15184/aqy.2019.213. ISSN 0003-598X.
  13. ^ Willmott, Hugh; Daubney, Adam (2020-01-02). "Of saints, sows or smiths? Copper-brazed iron handbells in Early Medieval England" (PDF). Archaeological Journal. 177 (1): 63–82. doi:10.1080/00665983.2019.1567970. ISSN 0066-5983. S2CID 166875806.
  14. ^ Willmott, Hugh B. "Glaziers and the removal, recycling, and replacement of windows during the Reformation in England Ecclesiastical windows at the Reformation". Church Archaeology.
  15. ^ Willmott, Hugh (2018-01-18). Gerrard, Christopher; Gutiérrez, Alejandra (eds.). "Cooking, Dining, and Drinking". The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.29. ISBN 978-0-19-874471-9.
  16. ^ Willmott, Hugh; Townend, Peter (2016-01-01). "Excavations at the Priory of St. Mary Magdalene of Lund, Monk Bretton" (PDF). Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. 88 (1): 121–150. doi:10.1080/00844276.2016.1201986. ISSN 0084-4276. S2CID 193483930.
  17. ^ "PDF.js viewer". www.oapen.org. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
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