In-Person History Talk – The Hedda Stone Mystery with Jackie Hall & Dr Teresa Porciani

Name: In-Person History Talk – The Hedda Stone Mystery with Jackie Hall & Dr Teresa Porciani
Start: 2025-10-14T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Minster Precincts, PE1 1XS Peterborough, United Kingdom

Schedule

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Minster Precincts, PE1 1XS Peterborough, United Kingdom | Peterborough, EN

In-Person History Talk – The Hedda Stone Mystery with Jackie Hall & Dr Teresa Porciani
In-Person History Talk – The Hedda Stone Mystery with Jackie Hall & Dr Teresa Porciani
Step back into the world of Anglo-Saxon England and unlock the secrets of Peterborough’s Hedda Stone—one of the most mysterious and intriguing sculptures in the country. In this captivating talk, our speakers will take you on a journey through centuries of speculation, examining fresh research, bold theories, and the tantalizing clues that surround this enigmatic masterpiece. What story does the Hedda Stone really tell? Who created it, and why? This is your chance to weigh the evidence, challenge old assumptions, and form your own conclusions about a monument that has puzzled historians for generations. An unmissable evening for anyone who loves history, mystery, and the thrill of uncovering the past.

Teresa Porciani is an art historian specialising in the art of the Early Middle Ages (c. 500-1000). She gained her BA and MA in History of Art from the University of Pisa, and in 2023 completed a PhD at the University of Leicester, with a thesis on figural stone sculpture produced in pre-Viking England (c. pre-850). She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC/UKRI project ‘INSULAR: Insular manuscripts in the Age of Charlemagne’ (University of Leicester), investigating the foundation and development of the Insular scriptorium of Echternach.

Jackie Hall is a consultant archaeologist, specialising in buildings archaeology and monastic and ecclesiastical complexes. She is the Peterborough Cathedral Archaeologist and, since 2016, the Southwark Cathedral Archaeologist. Recent publications include co-editing and contributing to Conservation and Discovery: Peterborough Nave Ceiling and Related Structures (2015) and the British Archaeological Association Transactions, Peterborough and the Soke: Art, Architecture and Archaeology (2019)