A talk based on the field visits and research for The Weirdstone Walk website is now available for either online or in-person bookings. Entitled Walking the Weirdstone: Archaeology and the Works of Alan Garner the talk follows James Wright’s attempt to walk the locations from Alan Garner’s Weirdstone Trilogy (The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath and Boneland) with an especial focus on archaeological sites. It includes prehistoric burial mounds, ancient standing stones, mediaeval houses, Victorian copper mines and the seventeenth century farm which was the inspiration for Highmost Redmanhey. Interwoven within the presentation is consideration for Garner’s own published fieldwork and research within the world of archaeology.
The speaker, James Wright (Triskele Heritage), is an award winning buildings archaeologist and a self-confessed Alan Garner fan. He runs The Weirdstone Walk website which seeks to track down every location mentioned in the Weirdstone Trilogy. Alan Garner himself has described the venture as: “the first to give the subject a proper treatment.” James has two decades professional experience of ferreting around in people’s cellars, hunting through their attics and digging up their gardens. He hopes to find meaningful truths about how ordinary and extraordinary folk lived their lives in the mediaeval and early modern periods. He is the author of the popular Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog.
To book this talk for an in-person or online event please do get in contact.