Our Beyond Defence series challenges conventional interpretations of Suffolk’s Black Ditches and surrounding ancient linear earthworks. Through multidisciplinary research, the project explores their potential role within ritual landscapes, sacred boundaries and cosmological traditions.

Staverton is a bold, otherworldly punctuated verse in the East Anglian sacred landscape, parts of which have potentially been unspoilt for thousands of years. We invite you to re-evaluate this enchanting site’s relationship with the sacred settings of the surrounding Wuffing kingdom.

In this fresh new study following ten years of research the authors propose that there is evidence of sophisticated geo ritual surveying in the landscape that connects the primary Anglo-Saxon boat burials at Sutton Hoo and Snape with the summer and winter solstices.

To celebrate the culmination of our research into Staverton and the ancient surrounding ritual landscape, we have created a ‘Solar Sandlings’ walking route that embraces the underlying concepts and sites that we present within this work.

Our rolling series of bite-size articles by Jeremy Taylor explores remarkable objects from Britain’s ancient ritual landscapes and the stories, beliefs and mysteries they may reveal.

An evolving series of concise articles by Jeremy Taylor, exploring the mysterious and intriguing hidden histories woven into East Anglia’s lost ritual landscapes.

We are currently researching a series of new works for future publication. From distinct ritual sites oriented around celestial events, to mysterious Black Ditches, more Hidden Histories, and enigmatic Pictish symbolism.