The Staffordshire Torc Odyssey.
The idea of this project, looking at five torcs from a very small area in Staffordshire, was to make it fully transparent and interactive so folks can see what artefact research (well, I guess, my way of doing artefact research) is really like, and for those of you who aren’t archaeologists, it will perhaps give you an insight into what we do and how we do it.
The project is ongoing and each of the blogs below tracks the different stages, and my thoughts, as the project moves through time:
Coming soon… Glascote up close…
For ten years I’ve offered the results of all my research for free and open access. I’m an independent researcher and have no funding, so all museum trips, research visits, writing up, conferences etc are funded by my scraping together savings and lecture fees etc.
Thanks to a few recent changes in circumstance, this is getting more and more difficult for me to fully support and, even though I’ll still be doing everything open access and always will, if you do have a bit of spare cash (…and really only if!!) buying me the occasional ‘coffee’ to support my gold research would be really fabulous. You can buy me a ‘coffee’ here!
The Big Book of Torcs 