Jill Campbell
Jill Campbell
Qualifications
BA (Hons) in Archaeology, Cardiff University 2003-2006
MA in Archaeology, Cardiff University 2007
Postgraduate
Email: jcampbell66@qub.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen’s University Belfast
42 Fitzwilliam St
Belfast, BT9 6AX
Northern Ireland, UK
Telephone
+44 (0)28 9097 5287
Current Research: Past Cultural Change (PCC)
‘Exterior design principles in late-medieval gentry houses’
In recent years, one of the most important advances in our understanding of castles has been the realization that these buildings were not merely constructed for defence but were also built to impress. Surprisingly the same considerations have rarely been applied to the organization of lordly buildings of lesser status. This is very odd as architectural historians have known for years that buildings from the sixteenth century used the external and internal space to demonstrate status and wealth. This was achieved by using a number of different architectural devices, influenced by the Renaissance and from the desire to create more a comfortable living area, no longer restricted by the need for defensive features. The use of setting to provide an approach to castles of the fourteenth-century has been appreciated since the debate now widely known as, the ‘Battle for Bodiam’. Subsequently it has been shown that castles from the Norman period onwards were sited to present a dramatic outward face. However recent work has shown that buildings of much lower status were situated with the intention of impressing visitors, for example in the late Saxon period, lordly buildings were organised so that long external face would be present to the approaching visitor.
Many of the questions that this approach raises, however, have never been fully appreciated and this is partly to do with the way in which the evidence has been previously collected. This is because architectural history tends to be written using standing buildings, which vary greatly in scale and state of preservation. This research topic offers a chance to develop this approach more systematically by using archaeological examples, as well as standing buildings, to try to recover a complete plan of a site. The results from the archaeological excavations will be used to read the architectural design and to understand how space was created, used and manipulated. However it will be the combination of both excavated and standing buildings that will provide the key in showing that buildings of gentry status were designed.
Principal Supervisor: Dr Mark Gardiner
Secondary Supervisor: Dr Colm Donnelly
Current Positions:
I am currently Bibliographer for the Medieval Settlement Research Group and I am also the Student Rep for the PCC Cluster at Queen’s University Belfast. I held the position of Student Rep for the Society for Medieval Archaeology from April 2009-December 2010
Grants/ Funding Won:
Recipient of a Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) award, which covers all fees and provides a maintenance grant for three years of my PhD study
Winner of a Vernacular Architecture Group Bursary, to attend the VAG Winter Conference, 2008
£400 RSTG money awarded by School of GAP, Queen’s University Belfast to help undertake fieldwork in 2010
A £2000 grant was won from the Vernacular Architecture Group to undertake a comprehensive survey of Lower Brockhampton, Herefordshire in July 2010.
£550 RSTG money awarded by School of GAP, Queen’s University Belfast to attend Ruralia IX
A recipient of the Emily Sarah Montgomery Travel Scholarship 2011
Conference Presentations:
Forthcoming:
26th September – 3rd October 2011: Exterior design principles in late-medieval manor houses, located in, or near, English rural settlements Ruralia IX: Götzis, Austria
27th May 2011: Expressions of wealth and power in gentry houses of fifteenth-century England Space and Settlement Conference, Trinity College Dublin
8th December 2010: A house is not just a home: means of display in English medieval gentry buildings Houses - shaping dwellings, identities and homes. European housing culture from the Viking Age to the Renaissance: Aarhus University, Denmark
24 June 2010: Were medieval buildings and landscapes designed? Sheffield Manor Lodge Excavation: Sheffield University
20 February 2010: Principles of external design in late medieval gentry English houses: the example of Hextalls in Bletchingley, Surrey SMA Post Grad Colloquium: Birmingham University
6 November 2009: Exterior design principles in late-medieval gentry houses’ Medieval Cultures Seminar Series, Queens University Belfast
Publications:
Campbell, J. in press. An investigation into the means of display in late medieval gentry houses, in Barry, T. (ed) Space and Settlement in the Middle Ages: The Final Frontier. Dublin: Four Courts Press
Web Publications:
Jill Campbell, Endre Elvestad, Mark Gardiner and Natascha Mehler, A Report on Preliminary Work on Papa Stour, Shetland. OITIS Field Report No. 1, 2010. Click Here
Campbell, J. (forthcoming) Principles of external design in late medieval gentry English houses: the example of Hextalls in Bletchingley, Surrey. In Forster, A. (ed) Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Archaeology Post Grad Colloquium 2010
Teaching:
I am currently a seminar tutor in the undergraduate module Historic Europe.
While undertaking my Masters at Cardiff, I was the supervisor on the Survey and Prospecting Techniques module (1 week practical course).
Conference Organisation:
In 2007 I helped to run the first Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium (EMASS) which was held in Cardiff, and later on that year, I worked as the Conference Administrator for Ruralia VII. As the Student Rep for the SMA, I organised the first SMA Post Grad Colloquium, which was held at the University of Birmingham on the 19th-20th February 2010. Under this role, I also organised the SMA Postgraduate Careers Day was held on the 9th March 2011.
I was also co-organiser of the evening seminar series in the School of GAP, which ran every second week through the academic year 2009-10.
Professional Memberships:
Student member of Society for Medieval Archaeology since 2004.
Affiliate member of the Institute for Archaeologists since 2005.
Student member of the Royal Archaeological Institute since 2008.
Student member of the Vernacular Architecture Group since 2008.
Student Member of the Medieval Settlement Research Group since 2009.
Fieldwork Experience:
During my undergraduate degree I was lucky enough to take part in excavations in Romania and the Isles of Scilly, before going on to complete 3 months field work training with Trent and Peak Archaeology Unit. After my Masters research I worked for Canterbury Archaeological Trust as a Site Assistant. Since starting my PhD I have volunteered on short fieldwork projects including West Halton, Lincolnshire and a week as a Supervisor at the Sheffield Manor Lodge excavation both with Sheffield University. I have completed a two week internship with the English Heritage Metric Surveying Team, and helped survey and excavate with the OITIS project in Shetland. I have also had training in geophysical and building survey, which I have carried out as part of my PhD research.
