Ruth Nugent
On Thursday 26th February we welcome Ruth Nugent to MAS. Ruth will be presenting her talk ‘Dead at Chester Cathedral: The Burials and Commemorations at the Cathedral’.
As a mature student, Ruth received a first-class, undergraduate degree in Archaeology from Chester in 2010 and received the Blue Coat Archaeology and Heritage award as valedictorian, and the Society for Medieval Archaeology’s John Hurst prize for the ‘most original contribution to medieval archaeology by an undergraduate dissertation’.
Published work
Nugent, R. 2012 (in press) Feathered Funerals: Birds in Early Anglo-Saxon Burials. Medieval Archaeology 55.
Nugent, R. 2012 (in press) Review: The Archaeology of the East Anglian Conversion. By Richard Hoggett, Archaeological Journal, 167.
Nugent, R. (in prep.) Home Comforts? Exploring Death as Hypersomnia in early Anglo-Saxon Burials.
Nugent, R. (in prep.) Heads and Tails: The destruction and re-creation of animal-human boundaries in early medieval funerary rites.
