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Dr Patrick Gleeson

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Dr Patrick Gleeson

Dr Patrick Gleeson

School of Natural and Built Environment

An archaeologist interested in the later prehistoric and medieval Europe. Current research focus is the archaeology of cult, rulership, kingdoms and governance in first-millennium AD Northern Europe. Particularly interested in the use of large scale remote sensing, G.I.S. and the application of new and novel methodologies. He currently has ongoing field projects examining later prehistoric and early medieval cult landscapes, power centres, and royal landscapes in Ireland and Scotland, and is interested in supervising PhD research and supporting postdoctoral projects in any aspect of cult, kingship and religion in late prehistoric and medieval Europe.

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  • P.Gleeson@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3826

Research Interests

  • Large scale geophysical and remote sensing survey
  • Later prehistoric and medieval landscapes
  • Archaeologies of rulership in Northern Europe
  • Cult Practices and Cult Landscapes
  • Imaging and Imagining cult spaces
  • Funerary Archaeology and Ritual
  • Assembly Places and Practices
  • Material Culture and Economy in Medieval Society

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Clair Richardson – Society and the Dead: Geospatial approaches to Funerary Archaeology in early medieval Ireland

Leidy Bojaca Gonzalez – Carved Stones in Context: Pictish Symbol Stones and Irish Ogham Stones (co-supervised with Prof. Gordon Noble University of Aberdeen).


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