Conservation and Discovery: Peterborough cathedral Nave Ceiling and related Structures Half a million years ago

Half a million years ago ice sheets pushed the Thames south

Countless ships – among them the Mary Rose and Golden Hinde – were built

Helen Howard

The quality and quantity of the evidence from the second quarter of the 5th century is unsurpassed

notably the 17th-century diarists Samuel Pepys (of the Navy Board) and John Evelyn (whose home was Sayes Court)

Conservation and Discovery: Peterborough cathedral Nave Ceiling and related Structures Half a million years ago2015 edited by Jackie Hall and Susan M Wright A major conservation programme took place between 1998 and 2003 on one of Europes greatest medieval painted wooden ceilings. Investigation and analysis were an integral part of this conservation work in the former Benedictine abbey church of Peterborough. The knowledge gained and the discoveries made during that time, as well as the conservation programme itself, are documented and fully illustrated here.