Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval Archaeology
Heidi Stoner's research is primarily focused on Early Medieval material culture of the Insular world, with a particular focus on early church architecture and sculpture. She is particularly interested in iconography, historiography, monumental art and its use in the early Christian and Insular Norse landscape. She is currently developing a project investigating Kent’s viking-age.
Heidi’s research utalises evidence from a multidisciplinary approach including portable material culture, as recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, charter evidence, and the rededication and rebuilding of churches in the 10th and 11th centuries seeks to tell a story of the viking past that had a seismic impact on communities between the ninth and eleventh centuries, and it is a history that remains both visible and mythologised within the landscape and heritage of the county today.
Currently supervising postgraduate research projects on Kent-related topics