Hugh Willmott

@hugh-willmott.co.uk

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Senior Lecturer in archaeology @sheffielduni.bsky.social Interested in archaeology🏺 monasteries ⛪ and the occasional cat 🐈‍⬛ www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/people/history-staff/hugh-willmott https://www.hugh-willmott.co.uk/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-7796

Walter the cat inspects the section
Excavations in 2024 showing walls, a fireplace and floor surfaces from a hall at the monastery
A selection of broken medieval floor tiles decorated with animals and floral designs
A photo of Lethbridge looking rather enigmatic!
Another air photo of the hill figures after excavation
The 1931 Cambridge Antiquarian Society report on Lethbridge's Anglo-Saxon cemetery excavations
Like drawing of all the figures Lethbridge claims to have identified
Air photo of a figure excavated by Lethbridge and interpreted as the Mother Goddess
A hand holding a medieval floor tile decorated with the rear end of a horse
The painting "The Inundation of The Biesbosch" by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Two archaeologists wearing hard hats looking intently at a cat whilst standing in an archaeological trench
An Anglo-Saxon brooch with surviving mineralised fabric on its back
Pieces of medieval window glass with painted designs lying on wet mortar floor
A black and white cat curled up and fast asleep in a basket
A fake medieval floor tile purporting to show a figure of the Cerne Abbas giant
Cat trying to eat Anglo-Saxon pottery