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Department of Archaeology

Staff

Mr Richard Kelleher

(email at r.m.kelleher@durham.ac.uk)

Research Topic

Patterns of monetisation and coin loss in England during the Middle Ages (11th-16th centuries). New interpretations made possible by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS).

Abstract

This collaborative doctoral award project between Durham and the British Museum will address major questions of the use and loss of money in England from the Conquest to Henry VIIIs debasement of the coinage in 1544 by an analysis of the over 18,000 coin records recorded by the PAS. It will plot and interpret the expansion and monetisation of the economy over time and enable comparison between target regions and between urban and rural sites. This project will be the first of its kind to formulate a numismatic methodological framework for the medieval period into which future find evidence can be placed and tested.

Publications

Articles: magazine

  • Kelleher, R. (2010). The 'English Custom': folding coins in medieval England. Treasure Hunting Magazine (April 2010): 79-82.
  • Kelleher, R. (2008). A lead impression of a French coin from Somerset. Spink’s Numismatic Circular CXVI. 6 : 297-298.

Books: sections

  • Kelleher, R. & Leins, I. (Published). Coins in Context: Archaeology, Treasure and the Portable Antiquities Scheme. In The British Museum and the Future of UK Numismatics. Proceedings of a conference held to mark the 150th anniversary of the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals. Cook, B British Museum Research Publication. 183: 18-24.
  • Kelleher, R. (2011). Reused coins in the English later medieval period (c1200-1600). In .), The Archaeology of Medieval Europe Vol. 2. Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries. Carver, M. & Klápste, J. Aarhus University Press. 267-8.
  • Kelleher, R. & Williams, G. (2011). The Tutbury Hoard of 1831. In Tutbury: ‘A Castle Firmly Built’ Archaeological and Historical investigations at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire. Hislop, M., Kincey, M. & Williams, G. British Archaeological Reports 546/Birmingham Archaeology Monograph Series 11. 62-87.
  • Kelleher, R. (2009). Coins and Tokens. In Caldecote: The development and desertion of a Hertfordshire village. Beresford, G. Society for Medieval Archaeology. 211-212.
  • Kelleher, R. (2007). 'Chronology' timeline. In Money: A History. Eagleton, C. & Williams, J. London: British Museum Press. 258-259.

Journal papers: academic

  • Kelleher, R. (2008). Medieval and later coins from near Orford Castle, Suffolk. British Numismatic Journal 78: 248-254.
  • Kelleher, R. & Leins, I. (2008). Roman, Medieval and Later Coins from the Vintry, City of London. Numismatic Chronicle 168: 167-240.
  • Kelleher, R. (2007). Gold is the strength, the sinnewes of the world: Continental gold and Tudor England. British Numismatic Journal 77: 210-225.
  • Eagleton, C. & Kelleher, R. (2006). 1343 and all that: previously unnoticed documents relating to England’s new gold and silver coins. British Numismatic Journal 76: 340-344.

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