Michael Shapland Publicity Officer
m.shapland@ucl.ac.uk
Michael took his undergraduate degree in archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, where he developed an interest in Anglo-Saxon society and the study of standing buildings. After a spell as an excavator and buildings archaeologist with the Museum of London Archaeology Service he was able to pursue both of these interests on the Archaeology of Buildings M.A. course at the University of York. The resulting research on the study of an Anglo-Saxon tower-chapel in Lincolnshire was published in the Archaeological Journal, and following a further spell as a buildings archaeologist in York this has led to Michael pursuing a PhD back at UCL on the subject of Anglo-Saxon tower-chapels as buildings of secular and religious power.