Updates

Welcome to the new ECPUK site!

The old site at www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/research/dodson/ecpuk has now become an antiquity in itself – not only because other commitments have meant that little has been done with it for some time, but also the platform it is hosted on – Zope – has become so obsolete that it is due to be turned off for good at the end of August. Hence this sparkling new site – which I am hoping will begin to gain additional new material in the not-too-distant future: and as a statement of intent, while the Bristol chapter is still not complete, I have added a conference paper that gives a good overview of the material.

The ECPUK Project

This is a long-term project is intended to document and publish a uniform series of catalogues of coffins and related items (e.g. mummy-masks) housed outside London, building on a catalogue of the material in Edinburgh published in 2010. The first regions to be started are the South-West – including Bristol, Bournemouth, Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay, Truro and Swansea – and the North-West – Bolton, Liverpool and Manchester – with the first entry being posted on this web-site in 2010: the intention is to post draft chapters as they are completed, with a consolidated print volume published in due course.

My thanks go to the various museums and their curators for all their help so far!