Keith Hirst

Our “Bawtry History” pages contain a paper about this important English battle fought very close to Bawtry, where King Raedwald was the victor. It is thought Raedwald was the occupant at the famous Sutton Hoo ship burial. This link accesses a 15 minute audio file about Raedwald and the ship burial produced by the BBC. The […]

The Hunt for Roman Bawtry – Desktop review stage 3 covering the Roman shrine/temple site This instalment of the review describes the site and its significance in what would have been its contemporary surroundings according to other researched archaeological reports and reported finds. Open the PDF below to find out more.

This is an album dating from the early 19th century which we have recently acquired. It contains paintings, sketches and text and was compiled by a young woman who lived in Bawtry and who was a published botanical artist and a pioneer in providing a good education to girls and young women. Late last year the […]

We posted Stage Two, Part One of our desktop review on 11th November last year. We’re still beavering away, and here’s Stage Two, Part Two. It covers monuments, features and artefacts from the south and east of Bawtry. It doesn’t, however, cover the very important sites of the fortlet at Scaftworth and the probable Roman shrine […]

Our earlier post (20th March 2024) on The Hunt for Roman Bawtry describes the project – i.e. to try to determine whether there was a settlement at Bawtry in Roman times. An important part of the project is a desktop review. In archaeological research, a desktop review is a process where all existing records appertaining […]