Cait Scott
BA, MA
Department of Archaeology
Research Student
Thesis- The Evolution of Audley End: the material culture of a medieval monastery and early modern mansion

Full contact details
Department of Archaeology
Minalloy House
Regent Street
Sheffield
S10 2TN
- Qualifications
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- 2017- MA Archaeology (Medieval and Post-Medieval strand) – Durham University (Distinction)
- 2016- BA (Hons) Archaeology – University of York (1st Class)
- Research interests
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Thesis- The Evolution of Audley End: the material culture of a medieval monastery and early modern mansion
- Supervisors- Dr Hugh Willmott & Dr. Wendy Monkhouse (English Heritage)
This PhD is a collaborative doctoral partnership with English Heritage about Audley End, a mostly seventeenth century country house outside Saffron Walden in Essex.
Audley End transitioned from a Benedictine monastery to an early modern mansion, linked to the secularisation of monastic space in the post-Reformation period and the changing fortunes of its owners as they navigated Tudor and Jacobean society.
This project explores the changing nature of Audley End through the analysis of its material culture, structural remains, and historical sources to draw out patterns and changes in the lives of successive occupants and those who worked for them.
The primary source of information for this research is an archaeological archive created after excavations in the 1980s.
It aims to demonstrate the potential of archaeology and archaeological collections to inform the understanding and heritage presentation of English country houses, an approach that owes much to American scholarship.
- Grants
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- 2017 – Present- AHRC CDP Award with English Heritage
- 2017- Rosemary Cramp Fund for masters dissertation research