Collection History

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[2012]


March 2012 ... Forest of Dean Archaeological Survey: LiDAR Survey (info)

the digitla archive for this ALSF project comprises the final project report, database and shapefiles. The results of the lidar survey form a discrete body of work of enormous significance to an understanding of the archaeology of the area.

March 2012 ... Revised research framework of Post Roman Ceramic studies in Britain (info)

This Research Framework provides a focus for post-Roman ceramic studies in England, Scotland and Wales for the next five years. Its aim is to inform all archaeologists during the development of local, regional and national research programmes, as well as period-specific strategies.

March 2012 ... The Geophysical Survey Database (info)

An online database that incorporates the English Heritage Geophysical Survey Database and geophysical events recorded in the OASIS system.

March 2012 ... Wharram Percy Archive (info)

The primary aim of the project has been to disseminate, by the most appropriate means, the results of the excavations carried out at the deserted medieval village site of Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire, between 1950 and 1990. The current phase of the project began in 2000, and has resulted in thirteen publications detailing the principal findings of excavations carried out in various parts of the village site between 1950 and 1990.

February 2012 ... Californian Basketry Traditions (info)

The dataset reproduced here forms the basis of a paper that examines the relationship between language transmission and craft traditions amongst the Californian Indian, and focuses on the basketry traditions of the western United States (Jordan and Shennan 2003).

February 2012 ... Identification and quantification of archaeological projects arising from aggregate extraction in Hampshire, Surrey, East Sussex and West Sussex (info)

The project aimed to identify and quantify past archaeological investigations arising from hard and soft aggregates extraction in Hampshire, Surrey, East Sussex and West Sussex, which currently have incomplete or inappropriately low levels of dissemination. The archive contains the report and database for this project.

February 2012 ... Gill Mill Quarry, Oxfordshire (info)

The Post-excavation assessment covering 12 years of excavations at Gill Mill Quarry in Oxfordshire. Evidence has been uncoverted for late prehistoric/Roman settlement with associated burials.

February 2012 ... Essex Seaside Resort Project (info)

The Seaside Heritage Project is a series of reports whose purpose is to examine, explore and explain the growth and consolidation of Essex coastal resorts and to outline recommendations for the future conservation of its distinct character zones.

February 2012 ... The Antikythera Survey Project (info)

The Antikythera Survey Project (ASP) was an interdisciplinary programme of fieldwork, artefact study and laboratory analysis that addressed the long-term history and human ecology of the small Greek island of Antikythera.

January 2012 ... Wealden Houses Database (info)

An online database of Wealden houses (a distinctive medieval structural type), compiled by the Vernacular Architecture Group.

January 2012 ... Whitley Castle Geophysics Survey (info)

The geophysics data from the survey of a Roman fort near Alston, Northumberland.

January 2012 ... Agricultural innovation at Qasr Ibrim, Egypt, 1000 BC - AD 1800 (info)

Data from the NERC funded archaeobotanic analysis of material from Qasr Ibrim, Egypt.

January 2012 ... England's Past for Everyone: Historic Environment Research (info)

England's Past for Everyone was a five-year project that focused on studies of particular localities such as Parham House in West Sussex and survival in the unpropitious landscape of Exmoor. A key element of the project was the concept of ethnicity and English identity. Several studies, particularly 'Bristol: Ethnicity and the City, 1000-2001', an account of one thousand years of migration to Bristol, detailed the history of ethnic populations in order to understand their impact on the local environment. Reports and images relating to the project work are available to download for 9 of the localities studied.

January 2012 ... Mystery Wreck Project (info)

Data relating to the study and investigation of a Mystery Wreck discovered in the Eastern Solent in 2004

January 2012 ... Bibliography of the Vernacular Architecture Group updated (info)

Updates and corrections have been made to this resource

January 2012 ... Infernal Traffic: Excavation of a Liberated African Graveyard in Rupert’s Valley, St Helena (info)

This project relates to archaeological investigations of the 'Liberated African' graveyards in Rupert's Valley, on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic.

January 2012 ... AMAP2 - Characterising the Potential for Wrecks (info)

The project sought to improve the management of the marine historic environment by enhancing our understanding of the relationship between shipwrecks and their surrounding environment.

January 2012 ... Hulk Assemblages: Assessing the national context (info)

The project sought to create a method for quantifying known hulk assemblages in England, and to create a nationwide database of hulk assemblages, that could be used to identify thematic, geographic and temporal gaps in the known data.

January 2012 ... Chronology of British aggregates using amino acid racemization and degradation archive updated (info)

The archive has been updated to include the project database. The project assessed the utility of a novel method of amino acid racemization analysis and interpretation on the calcitic opercula of the gastropod Bithynia .

January 2012 ... Understanding water table dynamics and their influence on the buried archaeological resource in relation to aggregates extraction (info)

This report presents the results of hydrological monitoring and modeling of groundwater conditions at the site of Newington, in the Idle River valley, Nottinghamshire.

[2011]


December 2011 ... Archaeological Potential of Cave and Fissure Deposits in Limestone (info)

This project undertook as study of the archaeological potential of cave and fissure deposits and assessed current protection to such deposits as afforded through the planning process.

December 2011 ... Aggregates Extraction and Archaeology Backlogs: North-West Region (info)

This project comprised a desk-based study of aggregate sites the in north-west of England. The study covered the counties of Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside. The study was undertaken to identify and quantify archaeological projects arising from aggregates extraction which currently have incomplete or inappropriately low levels of dissemination.

December 2011 ... Identification and Quantification of Projects Arising From Aggregates Extraction: Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Oxfordshire (info)

A pilot study has been carried out as part of an ALSF commission to assemble a database of known archaeological fieldwork projects on hard and soft aggregates extraction sites in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Oxfordshire. The aim of the project was to identify those sites with incomplete or inadequate levels of dissemination, and to assess the potential of these sites.

December 2011 ... Archaeological Archives Forum Papers updated (info)

The collection of papers has been updated with the 2011 (Second Edition) of 'Archaeological Archives: A guide to best practice in creation, compilation, transfer and curation'.

December 2011 ... Weoley Castle Ruins (info)

Weoley Castle is a fortified, medieval manor-house situated four miles to the southwest of Birmingham city centre, two campaigns of archaeological excavation were undertaken; between 1932 and 1940 and 1955 and 1962. The digital archive consists of a series of reports on the archaeological archive, the ceramic finds and the small (portable) finds etcieval manor-house situated four miles to the southwest of Birmingham city centre.

December 2011 ... The Archaeobotany of Vaihingen an der Enz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (info)

The dataset is the result of a large-scale analysis of charred macrobotanical remains (seeds/fruits, chaff) from the extensively excavated and sampled LBK site Vaihingen an der Enz. The aims of the study were to investigate the use and management of plants in this early farming settlement and the social implications of these practices.

November 2011 ... Framework Archaeology Heathrow Terminal 5 Excavation Archive (info)

Between 1996 and 2000 Framework Archaeology undertook extensive excavations of an important prehistoric and Roman landscape at Perry Oaks sludge works, Heathrow, Middlesex. Further archaeological work in advance of a fifth passenger terminal ("T5") at Heathrow Airport took place from 2002 onwards, and the results of those excavations will be integrated with the data contained in this archive.

November 2011 ... Historic Seascape Characterisation: Newport to Clacton and Adjacent Waters (info)

The Newport-Clacton Historic Seascape Characterisation (HSC) Project forms part of the second round of implementation of a national HSC methodology to the England's coastal and marine zones.

November 2011 ... Town and Country in Roman Essex: Settlement Hierarchies in Roman Essex (info)

The Town and Country in Roman Essex project is a large scale regional study based on correspondence analysis of finds assemblages, including coins, pottery, registered finds, animal bone and vessel glass. The database includes linked tables on small finds, glass, pottery and coins, as well as for the following aspects of the animal bone assemblages: NSIP, MNI, tooth-wear, MNE and metrics for bone elements.

November 2011 ... Derbyshire and the Peak District Archaeology and Aggregates Resource Assessment (info)

The Derbyshire and Peak District Aggregates Resource Assessment Project was undertaken to develop the historic environment evidence-base and assist in future management and decision-making in relation to archaeology and aggregate extraction.

October 2011 ... Parts and Wholes: object categorisation and fragmentation in prehistoric context (info)

The digital archive from the British Academy-funded Parts and Wholes project undertaken by John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska of Durham University. The project was concerned with the relationship between complete objects and their fragments, and studied the artefact assemblages from Chalcolithic sites at Dolnoslav tell and the Durankulak and Varna cemeteries in Bulgaria.

October 2011 ... Late Quaternary Landscape History of the Swale - Ure Washlands archive updated (info)

The existing project archive has been updated with the addition of data from the various scientific analyses.

October 2011 ... Maritime and Marine Historic Environment Research Framework (info)

This project produced a resource assessment and research agenda for England's maritime and marine historic environment, which is the first, key stage in developing a full research framework.

October 2011 ... Oxfordshire Aggregates and Archaeology Assessment (info)

The project quantified and reviewed the archaeological potential of the aggregate areas in Oxfordshire in order to provide an assessment of the threat to the archaeological resource from future aggregate extraction.

October 2011 ... Historic Seascape Characterisation: Hastings to Purbeck and Adjacent Waters (info)

The project resulted in a GIS-based characterisation of the project area, extending from Hastings, Kent, to Purbeck, Dorset, along the coast and seaward across adjacent waters to the Median Line with France.

October 2011 ... The Virtual Amarna Project (info)

This archive resulted from the 3D digitisation of objects from the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna using a Konica Minolta Vivid 9i system. Data includes images, 3D PDF files, meshes (obj) and point clouds (ascii). This archive was undertaken in conjunction with an electronic publication through the LEAP II project and the corresponding article (Limp et al, 2011) can be found in Internet Archaeology 30.

September 2011 ... Wroxeter: The Webster Excavation Archive Project (info)

This archive comprises the database created as a curatorial and research tool during the post-excavation and publication work on Graham Webster's excavations at Wroxeter 1955-1985.

September 2011 ... Historic Seascape Characterisation: The Irish Sea (English sector) (info)

The project comprises a GIS-based historic seascape characterisation (HSC) of the English sector of the Irish Sea.

September 2011 ... Bedfordshire Aggregates Archaeological Resource Assessment (info)

The aim of this project is to improve knowledge of the archaeological resource of the aggregate producing areas of the historic county of Bedfordshire; thereby providing the appropriate tools to facilitate decisions regarding strategic planning, management and preservation of archaeological sites and historic landscapes within those areas.

September 2011 ... Midlands purple and Cistercian-type wares in the west Midlands in the 15th-16th centuries (info)

This project studied Midlands purple and Cistercian-type wares, some of the commonest wares on late medieval to post-medieval sites in the west Midlands.

September 2011 ... Faunal Remains from Stafford Castle Excavations 1978-1998 (info)

The bones are from Site B (inner bailey) adjacent to the motte from Phases 1 to 6, dating from c.1070 to c. 1650 with the largest groups Phases 2 and 3 from c.1070 to c. 1425, the time of the timber castle and the early years of the stone castle built in 1348.

August 2011 ... Essex Aggregates Archaeology Resource Assessment (info)

This report provides the results of an assessment of the archaeological resource threatened by the extraction of aggregate minerals within Essex.

August 2011 ... A Review of Animal Remains from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Southern Britain (info)

This project is a review of the animal bone evidence from Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites in southern England. A Regional Review report, for which this database serves as an online appendix, has been written which synthesises the faunal assemblages and discusses their implications for husbandry, hunting, meat consumption and ritual activities.

August 2011 ... Post-Medieval Britain and Northern Ireland updated (info)

This on-line searchable database has been updated with 500+ new entries of fieldwork in 2009. Some entries are illustrated and many more contain links to relevant reports within the Library of Unpublished Fieldwork Reports.

August 2011 ... The Waite Nuneaton Private Collection (info)

The Waite Project constitutes a record of potentially-Palaeolithic lithic surface finds from the Nuneaton area, Warwickshire, retrieved in fieldwalking by Mr Ron Waite of Nuneaton over many decades, and kept in his own private collection between 2005 and 2008.

August 2011 ... Historic Seascape Characterisation: Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary (info)

This project is one of four projects commissioned to implement the national HSC Method, extending and applying the principles already underpinning Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) to a range of areas of the English coast, seas and adjacent waters.

August 2011 ... Medieval Britain and Ireland updated (info)

This database has been updated with 286 new entries of fieldwork in 2009

August 2011 ... Cruck database updated (info)

This database has been updated, and now contains over 6000 records of cruck buildings in England and Wales.

August 2011 ... The ‘Coach House’, 16 Bevois Valley Road, Southampton (info)

A building recording report by Southern Archaeological Services Ltd, released as part of the Southampton's Designated Archaeology Collections Programme.

August 2011 ... Woolston Riverside, Southampton (info)

A field evaluation by Thames Valley Archaeological Services, released as part of the Southampton's Designated Archaeology Collections Programme.

August 2011 ... 20-26 College Street, Southampton (info)

A field evaluation by Thames Valley Archaeological Services, released as part of the Southampton's Designated Archaeology Collections Programme.

August 2011 ... Identifying coastal archaeology using multi-spectral satellite imagery of the intertidal zone (info)

This English Heritage funded project explored the use of multispectral satellite imagery for archaeological investigations in the intertidal zone.

August 2011 ... Bibliography of the Vernacular Architecture Group - updated (info)

This online database has been updated with new records, and revisions to existing records.

August 2011 ... Assessing The Research Potential of Grey Literature in the study of Roman England - archive updated (info)

This archive has been updated with the results of Stage 2 of the project, a more detailed assessment of the ability of grey literature to enhance academic understanding of specific aspects of Roman Britain, using Essex, Somerset, Warwickshire and South and West Yorkshire as case studies.

July 2011 ... A GIS aided study of agriculture and landscape in Midland England (info)

A study of the Midland landscape from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century, using digital mapping and GIS to investigate the relationship between agricultural technology, field systems, environment and social structure. Using a wide range of sources, both archaeological and documentary, the project addresses two key areas: the origins and development of the medieval landscape of nucleated villages and extensive open fields; and the dissolution of that landscape through enclosure and land use change.

July 2011 ... Conflict in the Pre-industrial Landscape (info)

This project set out to ascertain how material evidence for military action and the landscape in which it took place can be better integrated into the investigation and management of the UK's historic environment.

July 2011 ... Wessex Image Archive (info)

The Wessex Image Archive interface was released with the first 8 photographic site archives. This trial was initiated in recognition that analogue photography is a diminishing technology and that digital photography and associated technologies bring many benefits especially in terms of accessibility.

June 2011 ... ACE Publications and Outputs (info)

The ACE network aims to promote contemporary archaeology at a European wide level, by emphasising its cultural, scientific, and economic dimensions, including its manifold interest for the wider public.

June 2011 ... The BTC Pipeline Archaeological Excavations in Azerbaijan (info)

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and South Caucasus Pipelines (BTC), constructed through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey during the period 2003-5, included over 40 excavations on sites of varying date together with surveys of different pipeline route options and the study of numerous sites while crossing the country. The archaeological sites covered a range of periods and types including Chalcolithic and Bronze Age settlements and cemeteries and Antique cemeteries. Medieval sites were represented by a potential Christian chapel and associated cemetery together with a number of rural settlements of varying complexity. A key result of this project was the appearance of Chalcolithic sites that dramatically extended the limited corpus of known sites in Azerbaijan.

June 2011 ... Unlocking Early Anglo-Saxon Girdle-Hangers (info)

This project focuses on a poorly studied artefact from the early Anglo-Saxon period - girdle-hangers - that are most often found in female burials in southeastern England from the late 5th to early 7th century AD. With the aim of contextualizing girdle-hangers within the female costume and within the early Anglo-Saxon society at large, the project consolidates available evidence concerning 118 girdle-hangers from 36 sites.

June 2011 ... Welton-le-Wold, Lincolnshire: An understanding of the Ice Age (info)

This ALSF project applied a multi-disciplinary approach to further understand and enhance the archaeological and geological resource at Welton-le-Wold former sand and gravel quarry.

June 2011 ... Tales of the Frontier: political representations and practices inspired by Hadrian’s Wall (info)

The archive consists of an image gallery of locations, archaeology and objects discovered along the length of Hadrian's Wall, which were recorded as part of the Tales of the Frontier project.

June 2011 ... Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 133 and 134 (info)

Volumes 133 and 134 have been made available to download.

June 2011 ... York Archaeological Trust Fascicules (info)

Several of the published YAT fascicules are now out-of-print; some of these are now being made available here as an online resource.

June 2011 ... Hedingham Ware Pottery Database (info)

The database of a study of the Hedingham pottery industry based in north-central Essex. Its main products were decorated and glazed fine wares, mainly jugs, and, typically, grey-firing coarse wares, produced between the 12th and 14th centuries.

June 2011 ... Assessment of archaeological resource in aggregate areas in the London borough of Havering (info)

This project archive consists of the final report, providing analysis of Havering's archaeological resource in areas of past, present and potential future aggregates extraction.

June 2011 ... Camel Estuary Wreck (info)

This project presents the results of the emergency recording and undesignated site assessment of the possible wreck of the barque Antoinette, Camel Estuary, Padstow, Cornwall.

June 2011 ... West Coast Palaeolandscape Project (Pilot Project) (info)

The West Coast Palaeolandscapes Project builds upon the results of comparative work carried out within the Southern North Sea as part of the North Sea Palaeolandscape Project. The west coast of Britain was identified as one area where any information derived on existing palaeolandscapes would have a significant impact on our understanding of the Mesolithic and, potentially, the Palaeolithic in England and Wales, whilst also informing the archaeological records of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

June 2011 ... North Sea Palaeolandscape Project (info)

The North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project sought to utilise existing 3D seismic data to generate information on the Mesolithic Landscape of the North Sea. The project utilised a variety of geophysical data sources, in conjunction with more traditional map data to record the Mesolithic landscape of this region.

May 2011 ... Chronology of British aggregates using amino acid racemization and degradation (info)

The project assessed the utility of a novel method of amino acid racemization analysis (Intracrystalline Protein Degradation, or IcPD, analysis of intracrystalline proteins) and interpretation on the calcitic opercula of the gastropod Bithynia.

May 2011 ... Creswell Crags Limestone Heritage Area Management Action Plan (info)

The project created an integrated archaeological, palaeontological, ecological and access Management Action Plan for the main limestone vales and gorges within the Creswell Crags Limestone Heritage Area.

May 2011 ... Wellington Quarry (info)

This post-excavation project undertaken by Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service was commissioned by English Heritage through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund to bring to publication the results of 10 years of work at Wellington Quarry in Herefordshire.

May 2011 ... People and the environment: a geoarchaeological approach to the Yorkshire Wolds landscape (info)

This post-excavation project undertaken by Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service was commissioned by English Heritage through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund to bring to publication the results of 10 years of work at Wellington Quarry in Herefordshire.

May 2011 ... Aggregates Extraction and Archaeology Backlogs: Cambridgeshire (info)

The project assessed the full spectrum of archaeological records and interventions on the Cambridgeshire Gravels, and the degree to which backlogs of analysis and publications exist.

May 2011 ... Evaluating and enhancing the geoarchaeological resource of the Lower Severn Valley (info)

This collaborative project aimed to improve methodological approaches and baseline information underpinning strategic planning, individual application decisions and evaluation and mitigation strategies relating to mineral extraction in the Lower Severn Valley.

May 2011 ... Assessment of archaeological resource in aggregate areas on the Isle of Wight (info)

The primary aims of the project were to improve knowledge of the archaeological resource of the aggregate producing areas of the Isle of Wight.

May 2011 ... Assessing Boats and Ships 1860 - 1950 (info)

The project provides supplementary guidance on the key themes and interests represented by wrecks of this period. This guidance, in the form of synthesised period reports, can be used to inform advice and decisions regarding importance and mitigation.

May 2011 ... Our Marine Historic Environment: Enhancing the National Monument Record (info)

This project compared the wreck data maintained by the National Monuments Record (NMR) and United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) datasets and, where applicable, suggest solutions as to how any discrepancies should be overcome.

May 2011 ... Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the archaeology of Suffolk's aggregate landscapes (info)

The archive contains the report and teaching materials from an ALSF funded project to disseminate the results of archaeological excavations on gravels and the role of archaeology and extractive industries to the public.

March 2011 ... Blackstone, Worcestershire (info)

The archive contains the post-excavation assessment of a pre-PPG16 excavation that was undertaken in the 1970s at Blackstone in north Worcestershire. The excavation focussed upon a later Iron Age enclosure.

March 2011 ... The Augustinian Priory of St Mary, Norton Priory, Runcorn, Cheshire (info)

The dataset comprises databases of stratigraphic data, finds (including copper alloy, iron, and lead objects, bone, ivory, wooden and leather objects), glass and pottery generated by the excavations undertaken between 1970 and 1987 at Norton Priory, Cheshire. The digital material was created during the post-excavation analyses carried out prior to publication of the excavations in 2008.

March 2011 ... Sussex Archaeological Collections Volume 145 (info)

The articles and supplementary materials for Voume 145 of the Sussex Archaeological Collections have been released.

March 2011 ... BMAPA Protocol for reporting finds of archaeological interest - archive updated (info)

This ALSF archive has been updated to include reports and materials from later stages of the project,

March 2011 ... Maritime Archaeology Access and Learning Workshops - archive updated (info)

This ALSF archive has been updated to include a report from the extension of the project (2008-2011).

March 2011 ... Meols: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast (info)

During the 19th century thousands of ancient finds were recovered from the north Wirral coast at Meols and were collected by antiquarians. The objects range in date from the mesolithic period to the 18th century AD, and include important Iron Age, sub-Roman and Viking material, while the substantial volume of later medieval finds is only second in importance to the collection from London. The dataset consists of a database of the extant finds which are now in museum collections in a few cases private ownership, presented with digital photographic or scanned images.

March 2011 ... Excavations at St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber (info)

Excavations at St Peter's Barton-upon-Humber ran from 1978 to 1984 under the direction of Warwick Rodwell. The archive contains digital elements of the published Volume 1, and the database that was created and maintained during the post-excavation project.

March 2011 ... A database of Upper Palaeolithic Sites based on Wymer and Bonsall, 1977 (info)

This database consists of data for all the Upper Palaeolithic (Earlier and Later) sites with positional data in England and Wales derived from the Gazetteer of Mesolithic sites in England and Wales (Wymer and Bonsall, 1977), issued as Council for British Archaeology Research Report 20, along with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic sites.

March 2011 ... England's Historic Seascapes: Demonstrating the Method (info)

The HSC: Demonstrating the Method Project, funded by the ALSF, marks the initial implementation of a rigorous, repeatable methodology for Historic Seascape Characterisation, applying the principles already underpinning Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) to the coastal and marine zones.

March 2011 ... Northumberland Extensive Urban Survey (info)

The Northumberland Extensive Urban Survey Project was carried out between 1995 and 2008 as part of a national survey to help local authorities, English Heritage and others to care for the fabric of our towns and cities. Some 18 settlements were studied for the project ranging from large urban centres to smaller towns and villages.

March 2011 ... Medieval Pottery Research Group Bibliography (info)

The Medieval Pottery Research Group Bibliography is a national bibliography of published reports, books and articles on post-Roman ceramics which has been gathered together by volunteer compilers from across Britain. This is being made available by the ADS as a searchable on-line database.

March 2011 ... Predictive Modelling of Multi-Period Geoarchaeological Resources at a River Confluence (info)

This archive has been updated with the dataset created by the geophysics and GIS analysis, This has formed an 'exemplar archive' to inform the second version of the ADS Guides to Good Practice.

February 2011 ... Identification and quantification of archaeological projects arising from aggregates extraction in Greater London (info)

The project aimed to identify and quantify past archaeological investigations arising from hard and soft aggregates extraction in Greater London, which currently have incomplete or inappropriately low levels of dissemination.

February 2011 ... Home Farm, Harmondsworth Lane, Sipson, London borough of Hillingdon (info)

Archaeological excavations/watching briefs were undertaken by Museum of London Archaeology in phases between 1999 and 2002, on the site of Home Farm, Harmondsworth. The watching brief was commissioned by SITA in response to an application to extract gravel.

February 2011 ... Stricklands, Chapel Road, Southampton (OASIS ID wessexar1-92058) (info)

The results of an archaeological excavation of the footprint of the proposed building at Chappel Road, Southampton. A total of four archaeological features were identified within the Site. These comprised two ditches and two inter-cutting pits of early medieval date.

February 2011 ... The Deanery, Chapel Road, Southampton (OASIS ID wessexar1-92410) (info)

results of the full excavation at The Deanery, Chapel Road, Southampton.

February 2011 ... The Deanery, Chapel Road, Southampton (OASIS ID wessexar1-97044) (info)

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to carry out archaeological field work on land at The Deanery, Chapel Road, Southampton (NGR 442700 111550). The excavation confirmed the continuity of activity associated with Mid-Saxon Hamwic (7th - 9th centuries AD)

February 2011 ... Dendrochronology database updated (info)

This resource has been updated, and now contains over 2900 tree-ring dates for buildings in the United Kingdom, ranging from cathedrals to cottages and barns. The database holds period, location and reference information for each record. It also includes a few buildings that have been dated by high precision radiocarbon dating, and the names of buildings for which dating was attempted but not successful.

February 2011 ... Royal Anne Galley Marine Environmental Assessment archive updated (info)

The project archive has been updated to include the report, survey data and photographs from the Phase II survey of the wreck of the Royal Anne Galley, situated off the Lizard, Cornwall.

January 2011 ... Archaeological Survey of Mineral Extraction Sites around the Thames Estuary archive updated (info)

The project archive has been updated to include the GIS files, in addition to the original project reports. The project aimed to establish up to date information on the historic environment in extant and former mineral extraction sites on both sides of the Thames estuary in Kent and Essex, around the Thurrock / Dartford / Gravesend area.

January 2011 ... Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment: North East archive updated (info)

The project archive has been updated to include the GIS files, report and photographs from the second phase - field survey -of this project.

January 2011 ... Greater Thames Research Framework (info)

A review of the current review framework by the Greater Thames Estuary Archaeological Steering Committee.

January 2011 ... National Ice Age Network archive updated (info)

The project archive has been updated to include the GIS files, in addition to the original project reports and educational material.

January 2011 ... Middle Thames Northern Tributaries archive updated (info)

The project archive has been updated to include the GIS files; the project was concenred with research and curatorial management of the important archaeological and alluvial deposits located within the Middle Thames Northern Tributaries.

[2010]

December 2010 ... On the beach: new discoveries at Harlyn Bay, Cornwall (info)

The digital archive held by the ADS consists of two specialist reports - cremated bone and residue analysis - from studies of a Trevisker Ware vessel found at Harlyn Bay, Cornwall in 1990.

December 2010 ... International Marine Aggregates Management Strategic Review (info)

This report compares the marine element of the UK Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) historic environment programme with other international management policies relating to heritage assets, in the context of the international marine aggregates industry.

November 2010 ... The Marsh of time: the saving of Sutton Common (info)

This project contains the archive of the large-scale excavations undertaken between 1998 and 2003 at Sutton Common, north of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The excavations revealed a 4th-century BC 'marsh-fort'.

November 2010 ... Alan Vince Archive (info)

Upon the sad and untimely death of Dr Vince in 2009, the Medieval Pottery Research Group -funded by English Heritage - undertook a project to secure key elements of Alan's archive. This archive includes the AVAC ceramic catalogue, Ceramic Chemical Composition Database and Alan Vince's unpublished grey literature reports.

November 2010 ... The Mucking Anglo-Saxon cemeteries (info)

The Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Mucking, Essex, represent the burials of over 800 individuals from the 5th to early 7th centuries AD. The digital archive available here comprise processed basic data about the cemeteries and the grave goods, including comprehensive spreadsheets with details of grave goods and burials attributes.

October 2010 ... The Excavation of the Southern Defences of the Caerleon Legionary Fortress 1982 (info)

In 1982 Cadw's predecessor (the Ancient Monuments Division of the Department of the Environment) carried out consolidation work on the rampart wall of the Roman legionary fortress at Caerleon. The excavations produced an important dated sequence tracing the development of the defences which furthermore allowed reconstructions of how the defences would have appeared in the first to third centuries.

October 2010 ... Suffolk: assessment of archaeological resource in aggregate areas (info)

The Suffolk aggregate resource project was funded by English Heritage from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The project studies the historic environment across the areas of sand and gravel aggregate resource, including areas of past, present and future aggregate extraction.

October 2010 ... East Sussex: assessment of archaeological resource in aggregate areas (info)

The East Sussex aggregate resource project was funded by English Heritage from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The project studies the historic environment across the areas of sand and gravel aggregate resource, including areas of past, present and future aggregate extraction.

October 2010 ... The South Lanes, Carlisle: Specialist Fascicules (info)

The original excavations at South Lanes, Carlisle ran from 1978 to 1982 and were located in a densely built-up area of approximately 2.8ha within the north-east angle of the medieval city defences. The digital archive presented here contains the three - previously unpublished - fascicules that were to accompany the monograph which was published in 2000.

September 2010 ... Till - Tweed Aggregates and Archaeology Project (info)

Till-Tweed Project was based around the reaches of the two rivers, the Till and the Tweed in north Northumberland, England and was funded through the ALSF. The project included three major fieldwork elements: Geomorphological mapping and palaeoenvironmental sampling, aerial photograph transcription, and fieldwalking.

September 2010 ... Archaeological Cropmark Landscapes of the Magnesian Limestone (info)

The project, funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund between March 2005 and March 2007, was devised to investigate the prehistoric and Romano-British archaeological landscapes of the eastern parts of South and West Yorkshire, including the adjacent parts of North Yorkshire and North Nottinghamshire.

September 2010 ... ALSF Dissemination: Benchmark Report Theme 4C. Outreach: The Sands of time, Aggregates and the public (info)

The third in this series of reports examines the impact that ALSF outreach projects have had in explaining archaeology, the historic environment and aggregate extraction to the widest possible audiences.

September 2010 ... Watermead Country Park, Leicestershire (info)

The specialist reports from this multi-phase prehistoric site, discovered during gravel extraction of a pre-PPG16 permission quarry in Watermead Country Park, Leicestershire in 1996.

August 2010 ... Surrey Archaeological Collections - volumes 1 to 32 (info)

Volumes 1 to 32 of Surrey Archaeological Collections are now available to download as a series of pdf files. These volumes date from 1858 to 1919. Further backlog volumes will be released in due course.

August 2010 ... Norfolk: assessment of archaeological resource in aggregate areas (info)

The assessment consists of a consideration of the archaeology within the aggregate producing areas of the county, through analysis of data held within the Norfolk Historic Environment Record and a systematic air photo interpretation survey.

July 2010 ... The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia (info)

The full text and over 400 images from this publication by C.S. Drake are now available to download

July 2010 ... Sutton Park LiDAR, air photographic and ground surveys and palaeoenvironmental assessment (info)

The project consisted of obtaining a comprehensive and more accurate record of archaeological earthwork remains in Sutton Park, West Midlands, England, through capture and analysis of LiDAR data and subsequent ground recording; and assessment of the extent, from documentary sources and field inspection, of deposits likely to contain palaeo-environmental data.

July 2010 ... The evolution of Rome's maritime facade: archaeology and geomorphology at Castelporziano (info)

This AHRC funded project investigated the evolution of the Laurentine Shore, integrating archaeological and multi-variate geographical analysis to achieve a holistic interpretation of the relationship between the built and natural environments. Working principally within the confines of the modern Castelporziano Estate whose sea front extends 7-13 km south-east of the Tibermouth at Ostia, the project focused on the period between 100BC and AD500 and the development of the shore as a 'maritime facade' of luxury villas belonging to the Roman emperors and their court.

July 2010 ... Culture and Celtic Speech (info)

This AHRC funded project - based at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies - studied the evidence for early linguistic material for the Celtic languages and non-linguistic culture, particularly the archaeologically defined material culture. The research has produced several major publications and research tools, including an Atlas for Celtic Studies and an Interactive English-Early Irish Semantic Index, available to download from the ADS archive.

July 2010 ... Archaeology at Glastonbury Abbey on-line (info)

Three new reports - with accompanying datasets - have been added to the existing archive of research and fieldwork undertaken at Glastonbury Abbey. These include excavations at St Patrick's Chapel, excavation adjacent to the refectory undercroft, and a metric survey of the whole site.

June 2010 ... Developing Magnetometer Techniques to Identify Submerged Archaeological Sites (info)

Marine magnetic surveying has become a standard technique for mapping the location of ferrous material on the seabed. The aim of the project was to acquire a better understanding of magnetic data and thus develop our ability to interpret these data with increased confidence.

June 2010 ... National Ice Age Network (info)

The project focuses on the Pleistocene (Ice Age) remains to be found in England's sand and gravel quarries. Although a resource of great importance for science and education, and of widespread public interest (e.g. mammoths, Neanderthals, climate change), these remains have often not received the attention devoted to the environmental and archaeological evidence for later periods.

June 2010 ... Mesopotamian Environmental Archaeology Database: phase I Iraq (info)

The database presented here is based on a review of published data and includes essential details of sites in Iraq and their archaeobotanical and archaeozoological assemblages. The database is available to download as csv files.

June 2010 ... Chapel of St Laurence, Bradford on Avon (info)

Field notes and photographs from the 2000 excavations at the Anglo-Saxon chapel are available to download

May 2010 ... Post Medieval Fieldwork in Britain and Northern Ireland (info)

Fieldwork summaries for 2008 have now been added to this on-line searchable database. The 2008 data consists of 567 individual entries, many of which have associated images and links to grey literature in our online library of unpublished fieldwork reports.

May 2010 ... Unlocking historic landscapes in the eastern Mediterranean (info)

This AHRC funded project adapted and used a new technique developed in Britain (Historic Landscape Characterisation - HLC) for the first time in the eastern Mediterranean to study two rural landscapes in Naxos (Greece) and Thrace (Turkey).

May 2010 ... Fields for Discourse: Landscape and Materialities of Being in South and West Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire during the Iron Age and Romano-British Periods. A Study of People and Place. (PhD thesis) (info)

This PhD thesis is an interpretative study of the rural landscapes and communities of Nottinghamshire and South and West Yorkshire during the Iron Age and Romano-British periods. It focuses on the regional evidence for inhabitation, much of it consisting of cropmarks of field systems and enclosures, which remained relatively unknown until the late 1970s.

May 2010 ... ALSF Dissemination: Benchmark Report Theme 4B. Management of extraction - Sustainable Heritage (info)

In 2007 DEFRA commissioned the ALSF Dissemination Project, to bring together and disseminate the results of all research funded by the ALSF during the six years between 2002 and 2007. This project, Sustainable Heritage - Aggregates Extraction and Management of the Historic Environment is one of three linked projects covering the Heritage theme. The project reviews the impact that ALSF projects aimed at developing new guidance, standards and best practice have had on the aggregates industry, archaeological curators and practitioners.

May 2010 ... Discovering the Ancient Don Gorge (info)

Discovering the Ancient Don Gorge was delivered by Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, in partnership with InHeritage, South Yorkshire Archaeology Service and Creswell Heritage Trust, on behalf of The Don Gorge Strategic Partnership. The core aim of the project was to reduce the effects of aggregates extraction on local communities by raising awareness of the rich historic environment of the Don gorge, demonstrating its regional importance and educating the local communities about the link between aggregate extraction and the discovery and study of local archaeology.

May 2010 ... West African pottery decorated using roulettes (info)

Roulettes are objects that are impressed onto the surface of a pot before firing to create decorative patterns have been associated with pottery assemblages of several continents for millennia. The images in the archive are all issued from West African archaeological contexts. Pottery sherds decorated with different classes of roulette are illustrated: twisted cord, cord-wrapped, braided strip, folded strip, and braided cord. Short notes accompany each image, with the aim of providing a didactic resource for the identification of roulette pottery decoration.

May 2010 ... Sussex Archaeological Collections Volume 144 (info)

The contents and abstracts of volume (144) of SAC has been made available through the ArchSearch Library. The full contents have been deposited by the Sussex Archaeological Society for digital archiving.

May 2010 ... Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of the Fenland Rivers of Cambridgeshire (info)

The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of the Fenland Rivers of Cambridge, also known as the Fenland Rivers of Cambridgeshire Palaeolithic Project (FRCPP) was initiated in 2007 as a short research project to examine the Palaeolithic and Quaternary evidence from the county. The project was funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) as a collaborative project between the Durham University, Cambridgeshire County Council and the University of Cambridge.

May 2010 ... Valdoe Assessment Survey (info)

The Valdoe Quarry lies on the Goodwood Estate, near Chichester in West Sussex. Topographically it occupies an almost identical position to the Boxgrove site situated some 6km to the east. The Valdoe Assessment Survey, aimed to determine the full extent of the palaeolandsurfaces within the vicinity of the nearby quarry, to determine the degree to which the quarry had impacted upon these deposits and to develop a plan for the future management of this unique and precious scientific resource.

April 2010 ... Bibliography of the Vernacular Architecture Group (info)

The Bibliography of the Vernacular Architecture Group has been updated, and now contains almost 11,000 references.

April 2010 ... ALSF Dissemination: Benchmark Report Theme 4A. Rich Deposits - Aggregates Extraction, Research and the Knowledge Pool (info)

This report addresses a specific subset of ALSF funded projects - those which contain significant elements of research and set out to expand our understanding of the historic environment related to aggregates extraction on land and under the sea.

April 2010 ... Aggregates Industry in the Trent Valley: A History and Archaeology (info)

This ALSF project takes a different approach to previous archaeological work in the Trent valley, in that it takes the aggregates industry itself as the object of study.

April 2010 ... Hampshire - assessment of archaeological resource in aggregate areas updated (info)

This existing archive has been updated to include the second phase of the project, this comprised an archaeological survey of the New Forest and North West Solent coastal plain based on a review of all available aerial photographs and Environment Agency LiDAR data.

April 2010 ... Medieval Britain and Ireland - fieldwork summaries for 2008 (info)

The on-line version of Medieval Britain and Ireland has been updated with fieldwork summaries for 2008. This has added 266 entries to the existing database of 2007 fieldwork.

March 2010 ... Norwich, Castle Mall (info)

Funded by English Heritage and the developer (Estates and General/Friends Provident), extensive excavations in central Norwich have permitted detailed analysis of the great Norman and medieval institution of Norwich Castle and part of the Anglo-Saxon town that preceded it. The digital archive forms a fifth element of the publication (following four volumes in East Anglian Archaeology) and presents detailed information on the various cemeteries that were sealed by the castle defences, as well as a group of 17th-century prison burials found on the castle mound.

March 2010 ... Anglo-Saxon Stafford. Archaeological Investigations 1954-2004. Field Reports on Line (info)

The digital archive contains the Field Reports for the excavations in Stafford (1974-1983), comprising the edited surviving evidence for the evaluation and the major excavations together with studies of the artefacts, bones and plant remains. The Stafford results are considered in their national and international context in the Research Report, the monograph Birth of a Borough by Martin Carver (Boydell Press), which may be regarded as the synthesis that accompanies and draws on this archive.

March 2010 ... Scowles Survey, Forest of Dean (info)

The Scowles Survey' investigated all scowles and known early smelting sites (bloomeries) within the aggregates resource area in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.

March 2010 ... Development of a Regional Sediment Mobility Model for Submerged Archaeological Sites (info)

This project, funded through the ALSF, applies one of the leading commercial numerical hydrodynamic modelling products, DHI's MIKE 21 software, to the development of regional scale models of seabed sedimentation and erosion. An understanding of the dynamics of underwater archaeological sites has been a primary research aim of marine archaeologists for the last four decades. To develop a viable sediment dynamic model for artefact based sites is crucial both in terms of site formation process study; a priori archaeological investigation; and latterly the effective management of marine sites to ensure their future stability.

March 2010 ... Church Wilne Deserted Medieval Settlement, Derbyshire (info)

The small medieval village of Church Wilne in Derbyshire, was located on marginal land in the broad alluvial floodplain of the River Derwent, close to its confluence with the River Trent. This ALSF project secured and enhanced the excavation archive relating to archaeological excavations at the site in the 1970's.

March 2010 ... Black Country Historic Landscape Characterisation updated (info)

The existing archive has been supplemented by a series of new reports.

March 2010 ... Chedworth Roman Villa updated (info)

The Conservation, Management and Maintenance Plan (CMMP) and associated documents and reports have been added to the existing ADS archive.

February 2010 ... Searching for traces of the Southern Dispersal: environmental and historical research on the evolution of human diversity in southern Asia and Australo-Melanesia (info)

This research sought to explore the pattern of population movement (direction, rate, permanency) along a hypothesised route from Africa to Australasia during Oxygen Isotope Stage 4. Using GIS-based analyses and hypothetical models of population movement, potential routes out of East Africa were generated and examined. The goal of these analyses was to assess the viability of particular routes, and consider them in terms of ecological and geographical constraints. As a result, several routes through Africa, Arabia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australasia were proposed and evaluated.

February 2010 ... England's Historic Seascapes: Withernsea to Skegness (info)

The project was carried out by the Museum of London Archaeology (MoLA) on behalf of English Heritage, and was been funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The study area runs between Withernsea in Yorkshire to Skegness in Lincolnshire, including the Humber Estuary, and extends out into the open sea as far as the median line with Holland. The overall aim of the project is to map and interpret current sea uses in the pilot area, with a view to identifying historic significance of the maritime environment.

February 2010 ... Post-Medieval Britain and Ireland (fieldwork summaries)

The on-line version of Post-Medieval Fieldwork in Britain and Northern Ireland is a new venture for the Post-Medieval Archaeology journal, featuring a searchable digital database for these annually submitted excavation summaries. The new database, commencing with reports from the 2007 fieldwork season, will link individual sites, through their OASIS identifiers, to the relevant records in the Library of Unpublished Fieldwork Reports, providing access to a wide range of data and grey literature. The aim is to eventually enter also the backlog of previously published round-ups.

February 2010 ... Medieval Britain and Ireland (fieldwork summaries)

The on-line version of Medieval Britain and Ireland is a new venture for the Medieval Archaeology journal, featuring a searchable digital database for these annually submitted excavation summaries. The new database, commencing with reports from the 2007 fieldwork season, will link individual sites, through their OASIS identifiers, to the relevant records in the Library of Unpublished Fieldwork Reports, providing access to a wide range of data and grey literature. The aim is to eventually enter also the backlog of previously published round-ups. In the meantime, summaries from previous years are accessible as pdf files.

January 2010 ... Sandhills Project, Alderley Edge, Cheshire (info)

The Alderley Sandhills Project (ASP) was established in 2003 and funded through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, a government initiative to fund projects investigating or restoring sites from which aggregates were extracted. The area south of Alderley Edge known as the Sandhills had until the 1960s been covered by a highly polluted sand residue from the copper extraction process. The project excavated two pairs of miners' cottages which had stood in their lee as a combined cross-disciplinary undertaking.

January 2010 ... The Shala Valley Project (info)

The Shala Valley Project (SVP) is an Albanian-American collaboration, led by Michael Galaty of Millsaps College in Jackson, MS and Albanian archaeologists Ols Lafe of the Albanian Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports and Zamir Tafilica of the Shkodra Historical Museum. The project was launched in 2004 and conducted fieldwork during the summers of 2005-2008. The SVP integrates interdisciplinary programs of intensive and extensive archaeological survey and excavation with geo-scientific, ethnographic, and (ethno) historical surveys, including archival historical research, in order to study the Shala fis ( tribe ), one of many northern Albanian fisi that survived intact into the 20th century and, to some extent, down to the present day.

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December 2009 ... Review of Animal Bone Evidence from Southern England (info)

This project, funded by English Heritage, aimed to review the animal bone evidence from Late Bronze Age-Late Iron Age sites from southern England. The Regional Review report (Hambleton 2008), for which this database serves as a feely available online appendix, provides a synthetic review of published faunal assemblages. Key themes include: animal husbandry; diet and economy; agricultural diversification and specialisation; and the nature of 'special deposits'.

December 2009 ... Chedworth Roman Villa (info)

Chedworth Roman Villa is a major site of the Roman period in Britain, one of the largest rural domestic buildings known from the 4th century high point of Romano-British culture. It lies in a particularly beautiful setting which has changed little since Roman times. The site was first excavated in 1864 and bought by the National Trust in 1924. The archive comprises the Conservation Management Plan (CMP), the CMP Gazetteer and a number of key surveys.

December 2009 ... Fieldwalking the cropmark landscape on the Sherwood Sandstone of Nottinghamshire (info)

Cropmarks on the Sherwood Sandstone of Notts, discovered and published by Derrick Riley, are analyzed in combination with artefacts recovered through a programme of fieldwalking. A coherent landscape of fields, mostly laid out in a pattern resembling brickwork, is seen to be integrated with small enclosures, presumed farmsteads, situated at approximately 1km apart where the cropmarks are best represented.

December 2009 ... Vernacular buildings in a changing world: understanding, recording and conservation (CBA Research Report No. 126)

Based largely on a conference at Oxford in 1998, this Research Report is relevant to all who are concerned with the future of vernacular buildings in England and Wales. It explores many of the current issues facing those who study small historic buildings, and who are concerned with their conservation. The whole report is available to download as a pdf file.

November 2009 ... Excavations at Kissonerga-Mylouthkia, Cyprus 1976-1996 (info)

The Lemba Archaeological Project of the University of Edinburgh investigates the prehistory of western Cyprus by multi-site excavations and survey. Kissonerga-Mylouthkia is one of the three Lemba cluster sites that constitute the core of its excavation research in the Ktima Lowlands, some 5 km north of the modern city of Paphos. The project archive available to download consists of the final published report, specialist data and photographs.

November 2009 ... Refining Areas of Maritime Archaeological Potential (AMAPs) for Shipwrecks (info)

The aim of this ALSF project was to undertake quantitative spatial analysis of shipwreck data using GIS to compare typologised wreck scatters to environmental, historical and hydrographic datasets in order to identify biases in the data and refine areas identified as Areas of Maritime Archaeological Potential (AMAPs) during a previous ALSF project.

November 2009 ... Defence Areas: a national study of Second World War anti-invasion landscapes in England (info)

The Defence Areas Project was carried out between April 2002 and June 2004. Its overall aim was to build on the results of the Defence of Britain Project (April 1995-March 2002) by examining in more detail anti-invasion defence works that form a coherent and legible grouping and survive well in landscapes largely unchanged from those of 1940/41.

November 2009 ... Technologies of enchantment: Celtic Art in Iron Age and Roman Britain (info)

This AHRC funded project - entitled 'Technologies of enchantment: Celtic Art in Iron Age and Roman Britain' - aimed to investigate the artefacts found in Britain between about 300 BC and 150 AD which have come to be known as 'Celtic Art'. Although, in recent years, questions have been raised about whether the Celts actually did exist as a distinct group of people, the term 'Celtic Art' continues to be used to describe a group of distinctively decorated objects found right across Europe during the later Iron Age and early Roman periods.

November 2009 ... Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale - Kentish Anglo-Saxon graves and grave-goods in the Sonia Hawkes archive (info)

The county of Kent is exceptionally rich in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. Systematic excavations of some of these cemeteries in the 18th and early 19th centuries provided a wealth of finds that reflect Kent's close political and economic ties to the Frankish world in the 5th to 7th centuries. Excavations by the Revd Bryan Faussett in 1757-73 uncovered c. 750 graves from sites at Crundale, Guilton, Kingston Down, Bishopsbourne, Barfrestone and Sibertswold Downs, Bekesbourne and Chartham Down.

In 1961, the need to re-publish this important material to a modern standard led Sonia Hawkes of the University of Oxford's Institute of Archaeology to undertake the publication of Kentish cemeteries as the first stage of a national monograph series, the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave-Goods. Work carried out between 1961 and 1971 dealt with the c. 1140 graves and large numbers of unassociated objects from Bifrons, Sarre and the seven sites excavated by Faussett, resulting in an extensive archive comprising object descriptions, drawings, photographs and X-rays.

October 2009 ... The Magnetic Signatures of Medieval and Post-Medieval Pyrotechnical Industries (PhD thesis)

In this PhD thesis, the medieval and post-medieval high temperature industries of iron smelting, lead smelting, glass production and charcoal production are investigated in order to obtain a better understanding of their magnetic characteristics and to improve the geophysical survey interpretation of the features associated with these industries. The chapters, figures and appendices of this thesis are available to download as a series of pdf files.

October 2009 ... TERPS - The English Rivers Project (info)

The JJ Wymer Archive Project was commissioned by English Heritage (EH code 5088) with the support of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF), with the intention of securing the Wymer archive and making selected elements of it accessible to public and professional audiences.

One of these elements comprised John Wymer's card index of every known Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefact from Britain. These formed the basis of first the Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project and then the English Rivers Palaeolithic Project (TERPS), the results of which were published in 1999 as The Lower Palaeolithic Occupation of Britain. As part of the development of the Wymer archive, the data gathered for TERPS have been used to create a database, which is available to search or download here. PDF versions of the two volumes of The Lower Palaeolithic Occupation of Britain, for many years out of print, are also available to read or download.

October 2009 ... Suffolk River Valleys Project (info)

The project, funded through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, was a joint project between Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service and The University of Birmingham. The primary objective of the project was to assess and characterise the geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental resource of the major river valleys of Suffolk affected by mineral extraction. In addition, it set out to investigate the evolution of different river catchments relating to the preservation and character of archaeological sequences in these areas, and to further assess the potential for investigating the role that human activity and climate change have played in the evolution of these valleys.

October 2009 ... Securing a Future for Maritime Archaeological Archives (info)

There is a critical lack of long-term, accessible and secure homes for maritime archaeological archives (the artefacts, samples and documentary and digital records from the many investigations undertaken in the marine zone around the UK). There is an acknowledged lack of capacity in our museums and archives to curate maritime archaeological archives and a lack of clarity over roles and responsibility for archives from the marine zone. This project has provided baseline information on the scale and extent of the problem.

October 2009 ... Buried under Bidford (info)

Buried under Bidford was an archaeological outreach project created by Warwickshire County Council and supported by the English Heritage Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.

October 2009 ... The Depositional and Landscape Histories of Dungeness Foreland and the Port of Rye (info)

The The Depositional and Landscape Histories of Dungeness Foreland and the Port of Rye project explored the long term resilience of the Romney Marsh / Dungeness Foreland depositional complex in the Southeast of England. The project was funded through the English Heritage distributed Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, and undertaken by staff from Durham University, University of Liverpool, University of Wales Aberystwyth and Kingston University London.

October 2009 ... Willington, South Derbyshire (info)

The Willington, South Derbyshire project has comprised the analysis of Neolithic and Bronze Age domestic remains and evidence of fire clearance of the area in the third and second millenia B.C. The archive contains a series of specialist reports commissioned in support of the published research report (published in the Derbyshire Archaeological Journal).

October 2009 ... Black Country Historic Landscape Characterisation (info)

The Black Country Historic Landscape Characterisation (BCHLC) has been carried out by Black Country Archaeology Service on behalf of the four West Midlands local authorities covering the area. Although the national programme of Historic Landscape Characterisation had rural beginnings, the HLC in the Black Country records the most urbanised landscape of any equivalent project so far published, covering as it does the area of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

September 2009 ... The Stansted Framework Project (info)

Between 1999 and 2004, Framework Archaeology undertook a series of large-scale archaeological excavations at Stansted Airport, Essex. These were undertaken in advance of redevelopment work within the Stansted Airport Limited landholding. The developments were designed to improve facilities for passengers or to augment the infrastructure of the Airport. The results of the archaeological excavations were published by Framework Archaeology in 2008 in the book entitled "From hunter gatherers to huntsmen: A history of the Stansted landscape"( Framework Archaeology Monograph No. 2.). In addition to the downloads, this special collection has an interactive map interface to allow users to investigate the data over the Web.

September 2009 ... Hill Hall: a singular house devised by a Tudor intellectual (info)

Hill Hall: A Singular House Devised by a Tudor Intellectual , is the complete history of a building that began as a hunting lodge, late in the eleventh century and that grew to be the principal house of the manor of Theydon Mount in Essex, a small country retreat within easy reach of London.

September 2009 ... Newham Museum Service - reports available through grey literature library

Newham Museum Archaeological Service was closed down in 1996. Its digital archive was passed to the Archaeology Data Service. The archive contained data produced over a ten year period, relating to approximately 180 archaeological events. A large number of grey literature reports from this archive have just been made available for the first time through the Library of Unpublished Fieldwork Reports. Many of these files had to be 'rescued' from archaic or obsolete software formats such as Wordstar 4.0 and MS Word 2.0. They are now available to download as pdf files.

September 2009 ... The Evaluation of a Multi-Period Prehistoric Site and Fogou at Boden Vean, St Anthony-in-Meneage, Cornwall (info)

In 2003 a team from the Historic Environment Service, Cornwall County Council carried out a programme of archaeological recording as part of an evaluation of a Bronze Age structure, Iron Age enclosure and fogou at Boden Vean. The results of this fieldwork are available to download as a series of pdf files and jpg images.

August 2009 ... A Late Bronze Age Pottery Production Site and Settlement at Foster's Field, Tinney's Lane, Sherborne, Dorset (info)

In 2002 an excavation was undertaken by Exeter Archaeology in advance of residential development at Foster's Field, Tinney's Lane, Sherborne, Dorset. A unique example of a Late Bronze Age pottery production site and multi-phase prehistoric settlement was revealed. The archive presented here consists of the final report and specialist data.

August 2009 ... Peak Forest Tramway and Cromford and High Peak Railway (info)

A Heritage Audit was undertaken for the Peak Forest Tramway and the Cromford and High Peak Railway in Derbyshire by ARCUS, in conjunction with Derbyshire County Council. The project was divided into two stages, an archive search and a baseline field survey. The archive search collated available information from local, regional and national archive sources. The walkover survey involved the use of proforma record sheets and digital photography. A total of 63 sites were identified along the Peak Forest Tramway, with 418 sites along the Cromford and High Peak Railway.

August 2009 ... Bremetenacum, Excavations at Roman Ribchester archive updated (info)

Ribchester (Bremetenacum), on the northern edge of the Ribble flood plain, has been known as a major Roman establishment since the time of Leland, and was also noted by Camden and Stukley. It is famous for the discovery of a fine Roman cavalry parade helmet, now in the British Museum, and frequent excavations have taken place during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The excavations which are reported in this volume were undertaken in 1980 and 1989-90, prior to the use of an extensive area to the north of the fort as an extension to the cemetery of St Wilfred's church and the redevelopment of the Ribblesdale Mill site at the northern edge of the town.

August 2009 ... Hilton of Cadboll (info)

The Hilton of Cadboll Pictish cross-slab is thought to have been erected at the Chapel site on the east coast of Easter Ross in the late 8th century AD. After falling and breaking its tenon, it was re-erected on the site in the 12th century and a medieval chapel was built beside it, possibly on the site of an earlier structure. The cross-slab is thought to have fallen in a storm in 1674 and shortly afterwards one side of the cross-slab was defaced and re-carved with a memorial to Alexander Duff in the 17th century. The result of this re-carving left thousands of fragments of the Pictish carving and the lower portion in-situ beside the Chapel. Historic Scotland, The National Museums of Scotland, Highland Council and Ross and Cromarty Enterprise sponsored excavations in order to retrieve the carved fragments and the lower portion of the cross-slab in 1998 and 2001.

August 2009 ... Wiltshire Extensive Urban Survey (EUS) (info)

The Extensive Urban Surveys project is part of a national programme of surveys of the archaeology, topography and historic buildings of England's historic towns and cities, supported by English Heritage. This project comprised a survey of the historic towns of Wiltshire, including those in the Unitary Authority of Swindon Borough Council. In all, 34 towns were surveyed, including the five rural Roman towns and the city of Salisbury. Report text and illustrations from all town surveys are available to download as pdf files.

July 2009 ... Selby Community Project - geophysical survey archive (info)

The project presents the results of both geophysical and building surveys conducted in advance of proposed development at Selby War Memorial Hospital. The works were commissioned by Faber Maunsell on behalf of Selby District Council and conducted by Archaeological Services Durham University.

July 2009 ... San Vincenzo 5 - Excavations of San Vincenzo Maggiore (info)

This data is primarily collected for the purposes of publishing the fifth and last volume in the series of excavations monographs for the monastic site at San Vincenzo, Italy, excavated under the direction of Professor Richard Hodges from 1980 to 1996. The volume describes the archaeology of the abbey's principal basilica, San Vincenzo Maggiore, its architecture, and its cemetery. It also describes the associated workshops where enamels, glass and other fine objects were made in the 9th century. The catalogues of finds and faunal remains is extensive, largely comprising discoveries made in a rich 9th-century midden associated with the workshops.

July 2009 ... Cruck Database updated (info)

Additional entries and revisions have been incorporated up to July 2009, giving a total of 5894 entries (4039 true crucks). The database holds period, location and reference information for each record. The database contains information on the name, location, function and condition of the cruck buildings with further details on the crucks themselves and bibliographic references.

June 2009 ... VENUS: Virtual ExploratioN of Underwater Sites - Port-Miou C wreck, Marseille (info)

The VENUS consortium, composed of eleven partners, is pooling expertise in various disciplines: archaeology and underwater exploration, knowledge representation and photogrammetry, virtual reality and digital data preservation. The project aims to develop scientific methodologies and deliver technological tools for the virtual exploration of deep underwater archaeology sites. This exemplar archive contains some of the material collected during the third mission of the project - the survey of the Roman wreck site of Port-Miou C, near Marseille. The archive presents a representative sample of the data collected during the mission, chosen to illustrate the techniques and technologies used and the archiving strategy employed.

June 2009 ... Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and Archaeologia Scotica enhanced

Previously unavailable sections of the ever popular PSAS and Archaeologia Scotica are now available online. These new files mainly consist of title pages, indexes, minutes of meetings, lecture summaries and acquisition lists and typically appeared at the front or back of each journal volume.

June 2009 ... Dendrochronology Database updated (info)

543 dates have been added to this resource. The database now consists of the tree-ring dates for 2450 buildings in the United Kingdom, ranging from cathedrals to cottages and barns. The database holds period, location and reference information for each record. The database was compiled by the Vernacular Architecture Group and is based on the lists published annually in the journal Vernacular Archaeology.

June 2009 ... Four new sites added to the Newham Museum Service archive (info)

Four new sites from the Newham archive have been made available online. The new sites are as follows: Beckton Nursery, East Beckton District Centre, Hays Storage Services Ltd (Dagenham), and Langthorne Hospital (Leyton) - all archaeological interventions from the mid 1990's. The data that has been made available consists primarily of pdf files containing text and appendices from the site reports.

May 2009 ... The Cluniac priory and abbey of St Saviour Bermondsey, Surrey: excavations 1984-95 (info)

The project covers the excavations by Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) on the site of the Cluniac priory and later abbey of St Saviour Bermondsey took place between 1984 and 1995. The site, formerly in Surrey and now part of the London Borough of Southwark, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (GLSAM no. 165). Important parts of the digital archive are being made available through ADS as part of the English Heritage Rescue of Complete Archaeological Projects (RECAP) to ensure continued access for researchers.

May 2009 ... Hartshill, Berkshire (info)

Between January and April 2003 Cotswold Archaeology (CA) carried out an archaeological excavation funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) at Hartshill Copse, Upper Bucklebury, West Berkshire. The project identified evidence for late Bronze Age (c. 10th century BC) and Early Iron Age (c. 5th century BC) settlement. The late Bronze Age contexts have yielded substantial amounts of iron working residue - evidence of the earliest ironworking yet known in Britain.

May 2009 ... Unlocking the Past: Archaeology from Aggregates in Worcestershire (info)

This project was undertaken by Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service (WHEAS) and funded by English Heritage through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund programme. Local group and museum collections from aggregate production areas of south Worcestershire were assessed as part of a project designed to 'unlock' their potential. Many of these had never been studied previously, while others warranted re-consideration in the light of limitations of previous analysis and/or advances in archaeological knowledge and techniques of analysis. Assessment of the collections has identified several regionally important assemblages and numerous lesser assemblages along with one nationally significant archive collection, that from Cruso Hencken's excavations at Bredon Hill 1935-7.

May 2009 ... Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project (info)

The Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project (MVPP) was developed in response to the priorities and objectives of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. The project was focused within the Thames Gateway development area on sand/gravel aggregate deposits in southeast Essex and north Kent associated with the palaeo-Medway River. This area has a long history of aggregate extraction, as well as still containing a substantial aggregate resource liable for future extraction or impact by other development.

April 2009 ... The eastern cemetery of Roman London: excavations 1983-1990 (info)

Archaeological excavations conducted between 1983 and 1990 at different sites within an area covering about 12ha in the modern London Borough of Tower Hamlets, to the east of the City of London, produced evidence for a large Roman cemetery. This cemetery was one of several serving Roman London, and lay immediately to the east of the town. During these excavations 136 cremation burials and 550 inhumation burials were recorded, together with a further 165 features identified as disturbed burials, but without surviving human remains. They were reasonably well dated from the 1st to the 5th century AD, although 3rd- to 4th-century burials were particularly well represented.

March 2009 ... Derbyshire EUS (info)

Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire County Councils launched a survey of small towns in the two counties in 1997 as part of the national EUS programme instigated and funded by English Heritage. In Derbyshire 22 small towns were surveyed to provide high quality data about the archaeological potential of the towns and their historical development for archaeologists and the local planning authorites. The reports utilised information from the county Historic Environment Record and a range of accessible secondary sources; no fieldwork was undertaken. The value of the reports for the identification of conservation areas and the preparation of conservation area appraisals has also been recognised. The project was carried out on behalf of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire County Councils who act as archaeological advisors and maintain the Historic Environment Records for the respective counties. The project was managed by The County Archaeological Officer for Nottinghamshire.

March 2009 ... Seabed Prehistory (info)

The Seabed Prehistory - gauging the effects of marine aggregate dredging project , was undertaken by Wessex Archaeology and funded by the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The project developed methodologies for assessing and evaluating prehistoric seabed deposits in the course of licence applications. This involved directed geophysical and geotechnical surveys, geoarchaeological and environmental analyses and the integration of all data sources to produce reconstructions of palaeogeographies and environments.

March 2009 ... Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment: North East (info)

North East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment, or NERCZA, is one of a series of projects initiated by English Heritage around the coasts of England. The project - undertaken by Archaeological Research Services - comprised a desk based assessment of the threat posed to heritage assets in the North East by rising sea level and consequential coastal erosion.

March 2009 ... Clee Hills Project, Shropshire (info)

The project sought to survey and characterise all evidence for human activity on the Clee hills (within the AONB of the Shropshire Hills in the south of the county), formulate a management strategy that would involve all who lived, worked and used the hills and provide an outline interpretation of the visible archaeological remains.

March 2009 ... Nene Valley: Archaeological and Environmental Synthesis (info)

The Nene Valley project presents the evidence of the character of the relationship between the environmental and archaeological record and variations in the watertable for the Nene Valley from its source in Northamptonshire to Peterborough.

March 2009 ... Transition Zone Mapping for Marine-Terrestrial Archaeological Continuity (Contiguous Palaeo-Landscape Reconstruction) (info)

The primary objective of this project was to produce a contiguous palaeo-landscape reconstruction across the marine to terrestrial boundary therefore enhancing the archaeological continuity across space and through time within an area of landscape previously examined through a series a stand-alone investigations.

March 2009 ... Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment: Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (info)

The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment (RCZA) was undertaken by Humber Field Archaeology on behalf of English Heritage. The project consisted of a desk based rapid coastal zone assessment of the threat posed to heritage assets along the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coast by rising sea level and consequential coastal erosion.

March 2009 ... Water Supply and Management in the Near East 63BC-AD636

The aim of this thesis is to assess the ancient systems of water supply and management in the Near East from 63 BC to AD 636, from both a technological and sociological perspective. Some of the main themes to be discussed are of direct relevance to water supply studies such as the debate over productive rural aqueducts versus consumptive urban aqueducts and the constant-offtake principle.This analysis considers differences and similarities between the pre-Roman period and the period between 63 BC - AD 636 as well as between the Roman and late Roman periods.

Febuary 2009 ... The British Archaeological Expedition to the ancient emporium of Vetren - Pistiros, central Bulgaria (info)

Adjiyska Vodenitsa (Hadji's Water Mill), near Vetren, central Bulgaria, is a premier archaeological site of the European Iron Age. It was an inland emporium, acting as a centre of exchange between Continental regions of the East Balkans and the Mediterranean between 5th and 2nd centuries BCE. The project described here, funded by an AHRB grant (1999-2000), aimed to conduct a geophysical survey to determine the size and character of the fortified area, and of the colluvial/alluvial deposits that brought about the site's demise; conduct a limited on-site excavation and post-excavation analysis; create an electronic database of finds and conduct a preliminary examination of faunal remains.

Febuary 2009 ... Middleton Bottom Wheel Pit, Wirksworth, Derbyshire (info)

In 2007 Archaeological Research and Consultancy at the University of Sheffield (ARCUS) were commissioned by Derbyshire County Council to carry out a programme of archaeological trial trenching at Middleton Bottom wheel pit, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire, as part of a programme of refurbishment. The project was ultimately funded through the English Heritage Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund Monuments at Risk programme.

Febuary 2009 ... Engendering Roman Military Spaces (info)

This research project investigates socio-spatial behaviour inside Roman military forts during the early Empire. It uses the distribution of artefacts found in forts in the German provinces to analyse the activities carried out within the various components of these forts. It then investigates the relationships between these spaces and the members of these communities - both soldier and non-soldier - who were likely to have been engaged in these activities. In so doing it develops better understandings of the complexity of the daily life within such military establishments. It focuses particularly on evidence for women and children and on their roles within these military domains.

February 2009 ... WAMAP: Wessex Archaeology Metric Archive Project (info)

In the summer of 2007, Jessica Grimm of Wessex Archaeology approached the Animal Bone Metrical Archive Project (ABMAP) to discuss the possibility of depositing Wessex Archaeology metric animal bone data onto the ABMAP database. This led to the formation of the Wessex Archaeology Metric Archive Project (WAMAP), with data from WAMAP datasets, structured to be compatible, added to the ABMAP database. The data transferred contains a selection of all measurements commonly taken during Wessex Archaeology zooarchaeological analysis; complete WAMAP datasets can be downloaded from the following pages, as well as a list of measurement definitions. The datasets are derived from Wessex Archaeology developer-funder projects (primarily in the United Kingdom), and as such, will provide information from a wide range of archaeological sites in terms of location, period and type.

January 2009 ... ALSF Dissemination - OSL Guidelines (info)

These guidelines - produced by Professor GAT Duller of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University and funded through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund - are designed to establish good practice in the use of luminescence dating for providing chronological frameworks. They provide practical advice on using luminescence dating methods in archaeology.

January 2009 ... National Mapping Programme: The Leadon Valley Sand and Gravel Aggregate Area (Leadon Valley ALSF) (info)

The Leadon Valley NMP (ALSF) project covered an area of 126 km² west of the River Severn and north-west of Gloucester; and also south-west of the Malvern Hills, north-east of the Forest of Dean and bounded along its northern and western edge by the modern Gloucestershire-Herefordshire-Worcestershire county boundaries. The project sought to identify and assess historic and archaeological assets within the potential aggregate producing area using aerial photographs.

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December 2008 ... Latton Lands Gravel Pit, North Wiltshire (info)

Excavation of a 14 hectare site at Latton Lands, Wiltshire in advance of quarrying was undertaken by Oxford Archaeology on behalf of Cotswold Aggregates between 2001 and 2004. The excavation produced evidence of multi-period occupation dating from the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age to the post-medieval period. The fieldwork produced an unanticipated density of deposits and quantities of artefactual and ecofactual material, particularly of Iron Age date.

December 2008 ... Hampshire - assessment of archaeological resource in aggregate areas (info)

The assessment consists of a consideration of the archaeology within the aggregate producing areas of the county through analysis of data contained in the Hampshire Archaeology and Historic Buildings Record (AHBR). In nine of these areas AHBR data was enhanced through systematic mapping from aerial photographs as part of English Heritage's National Mapping Programme (NMP)

December 2008 ... Mucking - Prehistoric and Roman (info)

The project, funded by the ALSF and undertaken by Cambridge Archaeological Unit, consolidated the existing data and post-excavation research from the excavations of the prehistoric and Roman phases at Mucking. The online archive contains initial phased site plans, feature gazetteers, prehistoric pottery reports and assessment of the physical archive.

November 2008 ... Somerset Aggregates Lithics Assessment (info)

The project examined the lithic (flint and chert) collections recovered from the most significant aggregate areas of Somerset, on the Mendip plateaux and the Burtle Beds of the Somerset Levels.

November 2008 ... Aggregate Landscape of Somerset: updated (info)

This resource has been updated to include reports from the recent aerial survey concentrated on the Mendip Hills.

November 2008 ... A database of Mesolithic Sites based on Wymer JJ and CJ Bonsall, 1977. (info)

This database consists of information for all the Mesolithic sites in England and Wales, which was originally published as a Gazetteer of Mesolithic sites in England and Wales (Wymer and Bonsall 1977). The database notes include a list of errors noted whilst checking the dataset, some of these existed in the original paper document and others were the result of errors made during the digitisation of the report. Corrections have been noted by the author and are listed in the database notes.

November 2008 ... Trent Valley Palaeolithic Project (info)

The Trent Valley Palaeolithic Project (TVPP) aimed to provide an improved understanding of the geoarchaeological history of the Trent Valley and areas formerly drained by the Trent, and through this to gain a better understanding of the settlement and cultural history of this region of the Palaeolithic world.

November 2008 ... London Archaeologist Journal

For anyone interested in the history, heritage or archaeology of the capital, London Archaeologist is essential reading. Published by the London Archaeologist Association since 1968, it is the periodical of record for the London area, covering every major archaeological discovery, period, event and issue. Content includes excavation reports, historical articles, artefact and finds studies, environmental archaeology reports, exhibition reports, book reviews, news and commentary. Volumes 1 to 10, along with some of the volume indexes, are available through the ADS. More recent volumes are available directly from the publisher.

November 2008 ... Roman barrows and their landscape context: a GIS case study at Bartlow, Cambridgeshire (info)

Eckardt and Brewer have carried out a GIS analysis of the landscape context of the Bartlow Hills, examining whether the famous Roman barrows were visible from nearby Roman roads, villas and other settlements. Questions about the location of other funerary monuments (prehistoric barrows and Roman burials) were also addressed. A paper on this work is to be published in the journal Britannia in 2009.

November 2008 ... St Anthony Finds Record (info)

The project aimed to provide a record of the finds recovered from the designated wreck site the St. Anthony. Described as a "fine ship" belonging to King John III of Portugal, the St. Anthony was wrecked on 19th January 1527, while sailing from Flanders to Portugal, a short distance from Gunwalloe Fishing Cove, on Lizard, Cornwall.

November 2008 ... The Aggregate Landscape of Gloucestershire (info)

This project consisted of a consideration of the archaeology within the aggregate producing areas of the county of Gloucestershire, and the formulation of a Resource Assessment and Research Framework for those areas.

November 2008 ... Anglo-Saxon Kent Electronic Database (ASKED) (info)

The Anglo-Saxon Kent Electronic Database (ASKED) is a collaboratively built research tool, developed to facilitate the doctoral research of two students of the UCL Institute of Archaeology: Stuart Brookes, investigating state formation in Anglo-Saxon East Kent, and Sue Harrington, examining aspects of gender and craft production in early Anglo-Saxon England with particular reference to the early kingdom of Kent. The aim of ASKED was to enumerate all those individuals within eastern Kent for the period AD 400-750 for whom there is archaeological burial evidence. The project produced a comprehensive electronic register of the archaeological remains and material culture of these populations, thus providing for the first time a searchable corpus of this information. The database lists 52 cemeteries from eastern Kent, as well as the inhumations and objects interred within. Information for these burials is derived from published reports and the inspection of museum archival material.

November 2008 ... Styling the body in late Iron Age and Roman Britain (info)

This online database provides a basic record of c.1300 toilet instruments recorded in the publication 'Styling the body in late Iron Age and Roman Britain: a contextual approach to toilet instruments' (Crummy, N. & Eckardt, H. 2008. Instrumentum Monograph No. 36). Catalogue numbers given in the text and figures of the book refer to the database presented here, which also lists each object's findspot, and provides a reference to the original publication, where such information is available. The database can be searched by catalogue number, by type or sub-type, by site or by context type, allowing researchers to interrogate the data according to their specific questions.

October 2008 ... Roman Piercebridge (info)

The Roman Piercebridge project has published the results of extensive excavations undertaken between 1969 and 1981 in the vicinty of Piercebridge, Durham. The site lies at the point where Dere Street, one of the main north/south Roman roads crosses the River Tees. There is a Roman fort on the north bank, the interior of which is now occupied by the modern village of Piercebridge. To the east is an area of civil settlement in the Tofts Field. South of the river there was further civil settlement along the line of Dere Street and, east of that at Holme House, a native roundhouse developed into one of the most northerly Roman villas known in England.

October 2008 ... The Urban Landscapes of Ancient Merv, Turkmenistan (info)

Ancient Merv, in Turkmenistan, is one of the most complex and well-preserved urban centres on the Silk Roads of Central Asia. A succession of major cities at Merv started in the 6th century BC and continued until the Mongol sack of 1221AD, although Mongol occupation, a resurgent Timurid city of the 15th century, and expansion in the 19th century continues the urban sequence. Together the walled urban areas covered more than 1000 ha. The Institute of Archaeology, University College London, has had a long collaboration with the Turkmenistan Ministry of Culture, focused on archaeological research and approaches to the conservation and management of the Ancient Merv Archaeological Park, which since 1999 has been a World Heritage Site.

October 2008 ... The Palaeolithic Rivers of Southwest Britain (info)

The Palaeolithic Rivers of Southwest Britain (PRoSWeB) project synthesises the archaeological evidence for the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic occupation of south-west Britain (c. 500,000 - 40,000 BP), with a principal focus upon the archaeological and geological potential of the region's Middle Pleistocene fluvial environments. The online archive comprises all final project reports, a selection of digital images and the databases generated by the project team.

October 2008 ... Land south-west of Ripple, Worcestershire (info)

The online archive - arising work at Ripple quarry in Worcestershire - has been updated to include a selection of digital images and finds database.The prehistoric features uncovered at this site - including a Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age post pit - are considered regionally significant on the grounds of their date, character, and contribution to current research frameworks.

October 2008 ... East Riding of Yorkshire: assessment of archaeological resource in aggregate areas (info)

This desk-based assessment of aggregate-producing areas in the East Riding of Yorkshire was carried out by Humber Field Archaeology, with funding from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, through arrangement with English Heritage.

September 2008 ... Assessing The Research Potential Of Grey Literature In The Study Of Roman England (info)

Since the adoption of Planning Policy Guidance Note 16 (Archaeology and Planning) in 1990, around 90% of all archaeological work in England has been prompted by the planning process. The product of this work is the ubiquitous typescript report, commonly referred to as the grey literature of archaeology. The Roman Grey Literature Project was developed between Cotswold Archaeology and Reading University as a way to assess the research potential for the Roman period which may currently be hidden within the grey literature. The project database is based upon data from the Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP) based at Bournemouth University, which has been enhanced by Cotswold Archaeology with information on publications. It lists all of the c.9400 investigations recorded by the AIP which found Roman remains. The digital archive contains the final database, the GIS layer created from the database and the final project report. The resource also contains the GIS layer as an interactive map.

September 2008 ... Marine Class Description and principles of selection for aggregate producing areas (info)

The project builds on previous ALSF projects, notably On the Importance of Shipwrecks (ALSF 3767), on the developing legal and administrative framework associated with the Heritage Protection Bill, and other schemes and initiatives concerned with the selection and management of historic assets.

September 2008 ... Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea (info)

The digital archive contains the reports from a Wessex Archaeology project that analysed current gaps in data and understanding relating to aircraft crash sites at sea. The study arose partly out of the discovery of aircraft parts and associated human remains as a result of marine aggregate dredging.

September 2008 ... Wasperton Anglo-Saxon Cemetery (info)

The on-line archive contains the specialist reports commissioned in 2005-7 in support of the forthcoming published research report (Carver, Hills and Scheschkewitz, 2009).

September 2008 ... Aggregate Extraction and the Geoarchaeological Heritage of the Ribble Valley (info)

The digital archive has been updated to include the report for the second phase of the project (the Kirkham Moraine area in Lancashire). The archive also contains the geodatabases constructed over both phases of work in order to collate known geomorphological, palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data for the study areas.

September 2008 ... Thornborough, North Yorkshire: Neolithic and Bronze-Age monument complex (info)

In 2003 funding was provided by English Heritage, from the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund to undertake a programme of fieldwork including topographic survey, fieldwalking and excavation at the monument complex at Thornborough, North Yorkshire. The digital archive contains the unpublished fieldwork reports generated by this project.

September 2008 ... Rill Cove Finds Recording Project (info)

The project examined the finds from the previously unidentified wreck site at Rill Cove, Cornwall. The full on-line resource contains the project report, database and artifact images.

August 2008 ... The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Landscape and Economy (VASLE) Project (info)

Recently the role of metal-detected objects in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian England has greatly increased through reporting to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and the Early Medieval Corpus (EMC). There are now thousands more artefacts and coins known than a decade ago which, in conjunction with fieldwork, have the potential to revolutionise our understanding of the early medieval period. The VASLE project was the first attempt to examine this data on a national scale. Such an approach enables the detailed analysis of the nature of portable antiquities data, the biases within such datasets and the relationship between patterns of recovery and historic settlement.

August 2008 ... Wrecks Ecology (info)

The Wrecks Ecology project develops an increased understanding of the environmental interactions of wreck sites and the impacts on wreck sites from aggregate extraction.

August 2008 ... Solent Aggregates to Outreach (info)

The archive contains the reports from a major project designed to increase awareness and knowledge of the archaeology and historical importance of the maritime environment and its aggregate resources.

August 2008 ... A Review of Animal Bone Evidence from Central England (info)

A review of the animal bone evidence from Central England from Mesolithic to modern times. The dataset collected consisted of details gleaned from excavation reports (or specialist bone reports), concerning vertebrate remains (of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) found primarily on archaeological sites. The full database is available to download or search online.

August 2008 ... Warwickshire Assessment of Archaeological Resource in Aggregate Areas (info)

This project characterised and mapped the available information on Warwickshire's archaeological resource in areas of past, present and potential future aggregates extraction in order to enhance existing baseline data and to improve archaeological mitigation of future extraction proposals in the county. The extensive final report is now available.

August 2008 ... Archaeological Archives Forum Papers

A selection of papers from the Archaeological Archives Forum are now available to download from our online library.

July 2008 ... England's Historic Seascapes (info)

England's Historic Seascapes is a programme of projects funded through the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund, as distributed by English Heritage, to develop a nationally-applicable method for assessing and mapping the historic character of our present coastal and marine environment: Historic Seascape Characterisation (HSC). Development of a robust, nationally-relevant HSC methodology presents many challenges which have been addressed through two rounds of pilot projects, their areas selected to include a broad range of the historic and management contexts encountered in England's coastal and marine zones.

July 2008 ... Thornborough Moor and Landscape Conservation Plan (info)

The Conservation Plan for the Thornborough Henges and an immediately associated area of land was commissioned in March 2005 by English Heritage, North Yorkshire County Council and Tarmac Northern Ltd on behalf of the Thornborough Henges Consultation and Working Group (THCWG). The Conservation Plan was commissioned to provide the key stakeholders with guidance on the future management and conservation of the Plan Area. The Plan is the first stage in a longer process of developing a sustainable future for the Henges.

July 2008 ... Neanderthal climate preferences and tolerances: the need for a better chronology (info)

This project aimed to investigate whether the present chronological data for late Mousterian sites in Europe are biasing our perception of Neanderthal populations by making them appear more cold-adapted than the incoming anatomically modern Early Upper Palaeolithic humans. By applying a series of cross-validated non-14C chronological methodologies (OSL, TL, palaeomagnetic intensity, and tephrostratigraphy) to late Middle Palaeolithic assemblages the project sought to identify spatial and temporal patterning which, when correlated with local environmental proxies and wider climate data, would provide a better understanding of Neanderthal climate tolerances.

June 2008 ... Körös culture settlement, subsistence and environment: investigations of the Early Neolithic Körös culture site of Ecsegfalva 23, Co. Békés, Hungaryy (info)

This project, principally funded by The British Academy and The Arts and Humanities Research Board, ran from 1998-2001. It aimed to obtain new information on the settlement, subsistence and environment of the Early Neolithic Koros culture (c. 6000-5500 cal BC) on the Great Hungarian Plain, a key area for understanding the nature of the spread of Neolithic practices across Europe as a whole. Its objectives were to locate a settlement close to contemporary deposits with palaeoenvironmental evidence, to excavate a portion of such a site with fine recovery methods, especially for food residues and samples for micromorphology and radiocarbon dating, and to date such a site as closely as possible. The files available here give details of all the contexts used, and their principal relationships as set out in simple Harris matrices.

June 2008 ... Palaeolithic Archaeology of the Sussex/Hampshire Coastal Corridor (info)

The project GIS has now been added to the existing project archive. The dataset defines the Palaeolithic archaeological potential for the Pleistocene sediments within the Sussex/Hampshire coastal corridor.

June 2008 ... Submerged Palaeo-Arun River: Reconstruction of Prehistoric Landscapes (info)

The archive contains all reports from this study of the extension of the River Arun on the northern English Channel shelf using high-resolution geophysical imaging sonars.

June 2008 ... Predictive Modelling of Multi-Period Geoarchaeological Resources at a River Confluence (info)

The project involved a multi-disciplinary study of the confluence of the Trent and Soar rivers in the East Midlands. The archive coontains all project reports.

June 2008 ... Catchment Tributaries of the River Trent (info)

This project involved a geoarchaeological assessments of two of the principal tributary valleys of the Trent (the Rivers Dove and Idle) with the overall aim of identifying landscapes and resources in these tributaries that might elucidate key issues in the study of the main Trent Valley. The archive contains the comprehensive rpeorts generated by this project.

June 2008 ... The Archaeology of Glastonbury Abbey on-line (info)

A second report has been added to the Glastonbury Abbey archive. This report produced by Jerry Sampson in 1995 records in detail the evidence for a complex painted scheme covering many of the wall surfaces in the 12th century Lady Chapel. The report is made available for download as a series of pdf files.

June 2008 ... Airborne LiDAR backscattered Laser Intensity Prediction of Organic Preservation (info)

The project provides an authoritative assessment of the use of lidar backscattered laser intensity as a tool for detecting archaeological features and remotely predicting organic preservation of waterlogged deposits in aggregate bearing environments.

June 2008 ... Airborne Remote Sensing of Aggregate Landscapes (info)

This project investigated the potential of multispectral and hyperspectral methods of airborne remote sensing (RS) for the prospection of cultural, environmental and geoarchaeological remains in river valley floors.

May 2008 ... Chalgrove Manor, Harding's Field, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire (info)

Archaeological investigations at Harding's Field, Chalgrove, revealed the remains of one of the most complete examples of a moated medieval manor yet excavated in England. The comprehensive digital archive for this project includes a site report, specialist reports, context and finds databases as well as digitised site plans.

May 2008 ... Thornhill Farm, Fairford, Gloucestershire (info)

Between 1979 and 1989 the Oxford Archaeological Unit (now Oxford Archaeology) undertook extensive excavations of a late prehistoric cropmark complex at Claydon Pike and Thornhill Farm, Fairford. The work at Thornhill involved the excavation of numerous evaluation trenches, four open area excavations and extensive salvage operations over a total area of approximately 40.5 ha. The archive contains the main context and animal bones databases.

May 2008 ... Howardian Hills Field Collection Survey

This archaeological report by John Bateman detailing a fieldwalking survey in the Howardian Hills is now available to download through the Library of Unpublished Fieldwork Reports.

May 2008 ... Cheviot Quarry, Northumberland (info)

Archaeological excavations in advance of quarrying at Cheviot Quarry produced evidence for Neolithic, Late Bronze Age and Dark Age settlement. The online archive contains specialist reports, site matrices, photographs and original survey data.

May 2008 ... Hayton Roman Pottery Database (info)

This database of Roman pottery from the site of Hayton, East Yorkshire, is available to query online or as a series of downloads.

April 2008 ... ALSF dates added to CBA Radiocarbon Index

A total of 647 radiocarbon dates - from samples funded by English Heritage under the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund 2004-7 - have been added to the CBA Radiocarbon Index for Great Britain.

April 2008 ... West Stow, Lackford Bridge archive updated

The West Stow archive now contains the full site report, context/finds database and palaeo-environmental data from rescue excavations at Lackford Bridge Quarry, undertaken in the winter of 1978-9 by Suffolk Archaeological Unit in advance of sand and gravel quarrying. Excavations produced evidence of multiperiod settlement remains dating to the early and late Neolithic, Iron Age and/or Roman and early Anglo-Saxon periods.

April 2008 ... Lower Lugg Archaeology and Aggregates Resource Assessment

A comprehensive GIS - the result of the collation of archaeological, geological, geomorphological and palaeoenvironmental information - has been added to the existing archive for this project.

April 2008 ... Stone Age Occupation of the Mékrou Valley, Southwest Niger, West Africa Africa

An account of the 2004 Mékrou Valley Project by Vicky Winton and Oumarou Idé. The archive contains images and measurements of finds as well as a report, which covers the context of the research, regional geography, and previous research in addition to the results and a conclusion of the work.

April 2008 ... Environmental Archaeology Bibliography update

A substantial update has been made to the Environmental Archaeology Bibliography (EAB) with the online database now containing information on over 11,000 sites and over 21,000 individual specialist reports. The data remains available as an online database searchable via a web interface.

March 2008 ... Extensive Urban Survey - Gloucestershire

The extensive urban surveys were designed as tripartite projects to include: the enhancement of the county Sites and Monuments Record (SMR), in order to provide a comprehensive database for each settlement, the preparation of assessment reports which would summarise the state of archaeological knowledge for each settlement and the design of a strategy for the management of the archaeology of each town to be implemented mainly through the planning system.

March 2008 ... Medieval Britain and Ireland 2006

The on-line version of Medieval Britain and Ireland 2006 is a new venture for the Medieval Archaeology journal and contains extended overviews of results, finds and contexts.

March 2008 ... Beach Replenishment and Derived Archaeological Material (info)

The Beach Replenishment Project is a brief specifically to investigate the relationship between the Mablethorpe to Skegness beach replenishment scheme and extraneous archaeological material derived from offshore aggregate extraction.

March 2008 ... Settlement and Economy: Their Location, Limits and Movement through the Landscape of Historical Cyprus

Settlement is an inevitability of human presence in a landscape; a collection of houses indicates settlement, but so too does a field system - the farmers must live somewhere. Wherever there are people there will be settlement, from large concrete and glass urban centres to the tented impermanence of a nomads' camp. Settlement is a result of the human presence, but remains a sterile idea without some discussion of community. Certainly settlement can be studied without community, but it remains an abstract assembly of parts unless the people that constructed or occupied it are taken into account. A single settlement is home to numerous communities that continuously form, divide and reform in response to the changing practical and social situations that everyday life presents. Before any settlement is established a series of decisions has to be made with due consideration of an area's topography and natural resources, as well as existing settlements in the landscape and any established social, economic or political systems. Physical considerations such as a settlement's location and extent, or the definition of its boundaries, can be viewed individually, but are more usefully considered in conjunction with one another so that a settlement is treated as a working unit that is part of a wider system, rather than an abstract collection of components.

March 2008 ... Flixton Quarry (Tarmac), Suffolk (info)

An archaeological evaluation/excavation undertaken over a c.2.7 hectares area at Tarmac's Flixton Quarry revealed deposits relating to a number of archaeological periods including Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age pits.

March 2008 ... Isle of Portland Industrial Archaeology Survey (info)

The project entails a comprehensive review of industrial monuments on the Isle of Portland, Dorset; an area of unique industrial and social history, which has been exploited for its mineral and marine resources since the earliest human settlement.

February 2008 ... The Palaeolithic Archaeology of the Sussex/Hampshire Coastal Corridor (info)

The PASHCC project was concerned with reviewing Palaeolithic remains recovered from aggregate extraction sites from the Sussex / Hampshire coastal corridor - a unique Middle and Late Pleistocene sedimentary record - between Romsey and Brighton.

February 2008 ... Earthwork Castles of Gwent and Ergyng AD 1050-1250

This PhD thesis is concerned with the earthwork and timber castles built in the southern March of Wales between the periods AD 1050-1250. The research addresses the presence of the castles and discusses their roles as weapons of conquest and structures of administrative control. It is argued that the recognisable change in the form of earthwork castle construction over the 200 year period can be seen as a consequence of changing functions. Although it has not been possible to demonstrate how the area within a castle was used, it has been possible to identify a difference in the degree of defence verses habitation space associated with these structures.

February 2008 ... Gwithian, Cornwall: Excavations 1949-1969 (info)

The Gwithian Project (2005-2007) is a comprehensive assessment of the results of two major unpublished excavations in West Cornwall between 1949 and 1969. Two set piece excavations took place: one focussed on the study of a Bronze Age farming landscape and the other, on a small post-Roman workshop centre. Both produced results of regional and national significance.

January 2008 ... Lodge Farm, St Osyth, Essex (info)

The archive contains the full site report, excavation plans and finds database from excavations carried out in advance of mineral extraction between May 2000 and February 2003. The excavations uncovered a previously unknown causewayed enclosure and a wealth of features dating from the Early Neolithic through to the medieval period.

January 2008 ... The Laconia Survey Project (info)

Between 1983 and 1989 a joint team from the British School at Athens and the Universities of Amsterdam and Nottingham carried out an intensive survey of a 70 sq. km. area of Laconia across the Eurotas river to the east of the ancient site of Sparta. In the course of the survey new and previously-known inscriptions were recorded. The online archive is intended to serve as a complement to G. Shipley's catalogue of epigraphical finds in the survey publication by offering digitised images of squeezes and published photographs of the inscriptions.

January 2008 ... Worcestershire Aggregates Resource Assessment (info)

This project comprises a desk-based assessment and synthesis of existing data and targeted enhancement of the Worcestershire Historic Environment Record (HER). The aggregate resources of the county and areas of extraction have been defined and mapped, and the impact of past, present and potential future extraction programmes on the archaeological resource has been summarised.

January 2008 ... Later Prehistoric Pottery Gazetteer (info)

The ADS, English Heritage and the University of Southampton are pleased to announce the release of the Later Prehistoric Pottery Gazetteer by Dr Graeme Earl, Dr Elaine Morris, Sarah Poppy, Dr Keith Westcott and Professor Timothy C. Champion. How many later prehistoric pottery collections are there in England? This simple question was the basis for a survey funded by English Heritage at the instigation of the Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group. The goal of the survey was to create a register of all the collections which date between the Late Bronze Age and the Late Iron Age, c 1000 BC-AD 50, and to complement this with a bibliography of published collections. Now available for live query or for download, the gazetteer database comprises details of over 7000 collections.

January 2008 ... Imported Material in Atlantic Britain and Ireland c.AD 400-800 (info)

This Archive contains information which supports the CBA printed Monograph. It contains tables, appendices, a database and GIS files.

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December 2007 ... Scotland's First Settlers (info)

The Scotland's First Settlers project was set up in 1998 to provide a detailed study of the Mesolithic around the Inner Sound and Sound of Raasay, between Skye and the west coast of Scotland. Fieldwork consisted of coastal survey, test pitting and selected excavation. The archive consists of roughly 1700 files and includes documents, data and images.

December 2007 ... Smouha District, Alexandria, Egypt: Report on geophysical survey, November 2004 (info)

This archive relates to a geophysical survey on the suspected site of the remains of the sanctuary temple complex in the ancient district of Hadra, now the heavily developed Smouha district of Alexandria, Egypt. Both the final project report and the raw geophysical data sets are available for download.

December 2007 ... Impact of Aggregates Extraction and Transportation on the Historic Environment (info)

This project investigates the impact of aggregates extraction and transportation on historic sites and buildings in England's villages and towns.

December 2007 ... The Ancient Saar Project: London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition (info)

An investigation of the economic and social organization of the Early Dilmun civilization in Bahrain (circa 2000 BC) through the systematic excavation of the settlement site of Saar.

December 2007 ... The Development and Implementation of Software for Palaeoenvironmental and Palaeoclimatological Research: The Bugs Coleopteran Ecology Package (BugsCEP)

This PhD thesis explores the development of a unique database orientated software package, which allows for the environmental and climatic reconstruction from fossil beetle (Coleoptera) assemblages. It evaluates and discusses the softwares incorporated statistical methods in relation to published data as well as the authors own investigations.

December 2007 ... The Welsh Roundhouse (info)

The project 'The Welsh Roundhouse' aimed to collect data from all sites in the modern administrative boundary of Wales with excavated roundhouses (in the broad sense of circular structures whether used for domestic occupation or other activity). The resulting dataset is available in this project archive, along with an accompanying bibliography. The dataset is also the subject of an article in Internet Archaeology, Issue 23 .

December 2007 ... Medieval Archaeology journal

The ADS and the Society for Medieval Archaeology are pleased to announce that in celebration of the Society's 50th anniversary the first fifty volumes of Medieval Archaeology have been made freely available in digital form.These papers are searchable in a number of ways and the complete series of indexes has also been published. The release will ultimately comprise two parts; the currently released digitised articles followed by the corresponding plates and copyrighted images, due in 2008. This resource represents a freely available form of one of the UK's most significant scholarly journals and will further enhance it's status as an invaluable source for all archeologists.

November 2007 ... Kendal Fell Quarry, Kendal, Cumbria (info)

Oxford Archaeology North was commissioned by Kendal Civic Society to carry out a Conservation Plan of Kendal Fell, Kendal, Cumbria. The Conservation Plan examined the historical development of the landscape of Kendal Fell in terms of previous research, general background and more specific documentary sources.

November 2007 ... Lower Lugg Archaeology and Aggregates Resource Assessment (info)

The Lower Lugg Valley Archaeology and Aggregates Project is a patnership/multi-disciplinary project aiming to summarise and synthesise existing data concerning our understanding of the archaeological, palaeo-environmental and geomorphological importance of the Lower Lugg Valley, Herefordshire.

November 2007 ... Wrecks on the Seabed (info)

The project involved the investigation of 20 designated marine wreck sites using a variety of methods of hydrographic survey, remote sensing and diving survey.

November 2007 ... Aggregate Extraction and the Geoarchaeological Heritage of the Ribble Valley (info)

The project comprised a programme of investigation into the potential impact of aggregate extraction on the archaeological resource of the Ribble Valley, Lancashire.

November 2007 ... Land south-west of Ripple, Worcestershire (info)

This archive contains the reports from the archaeological investigations undertaken prior to quarrying work at Ripple quarry in Worcestershire. The prehistoric features uncovered - including a Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age post pit - are considered regionally significant on the grounds of their date, character, and contribution to current research frameworks.

November 2007 ... Severn Estuary: Assessment of sources for appraisal of the impact of maritime aggregate extraction (info)

The project involved the identification, collection and appraisal of data sets for the marine archaeological resources within the Severn Estuary and Inner Bristol Channel, as well as an assessment of the potential impact upon the resource by current and future marine aggregate extraction.

November 2007 ... Knowth Early Christian Animal Bone Metrical Data (info)

This archive contains a database which presents the raw data of the analysis of the animal bone assemblage from recent excavations of the medieval settlement at Knowth, Co. Meath. Summary tables of the metrical and ageing data are included in the published volume with the full database made available here.

November 2007 ... Butchery and intra-site spatial analysis of animal bone: A case study from Danebury Hillfort, Hampshire, England.

This Phd thesis explores the questions of status divisions, specialised activity and task areas, meat consumption, ritual and structured deposition, and addresses a main theme: what was the status of hillforts in the Iron Age?

October 2007 ... Oxford Expedition To Egypt: Scene-details Database (info)

The fundamental aim of the research project is to provide academic and non-academic users with an archaeological and bibliographical database of (arguably) the most informative two-dimensional art of Ancient Egypt: the carved and painted scenes and scene details in private tombs of the 'Pyramid Age' or Old Kingdom period (c. 2650-2150 BC).

October 2007 ... Archaeology at Glastonbury Abbey on-line, Report 1: An Archaeological Study of the Crossing Piers and Nave Arcade of the Great Church (info)

Three massive baulks of masonry survive from the nave and transepts of the great church of Glastonbury Abbey. Detailed study of these survivals in the course of recent conservation work has shown that they embody an enormous amount of information about the building of the church after the fire at the abbey in 1184, and about subsequent changes to the fabric. This report, illustrated by detailed photography and line drawings, presents that evidence in detail.

October 2007 ... Excavation at Bantham, South Devon and Post-Roman trade in south-west England (info)

Excavation at Bantham Ham in 2001 examined occupation which yielded radiocarbon dates centring on the late 5th and early 6th centuries. Despite the limited area of exposure, a major and unusually well-preserved assemblage of post-Roman Mediterranean amphorae was recovered.

October 2007 ... Archaeological Survey of Mineral Extraction Sites around the Thames Estuary (info)

The Archaeological Survey of Mineral Extraction Sites around the Thames Estuary project was undertaken by Essex and Kent County Councils Dr Francis Wenban-Smith and Dr Peter Allen, and funded through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund as disbursed by English Heritage. The project has worked to establish up to date information on the historic environment in extant and former mineral extraction sites on both sides of the Thames estuary in Kent and Essex, around the Thurrock / Dartford / Gravesend area.

October 2007 ... Update to Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland (info)

The database has been supplemented by a datelist of 477 radiocarbon determinations carried out between 2002 and 2004 in support of research funded by English Heritage through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.

October 2007 ... Discovery and Excavations in Scotland

Discovery and Excavation in Scotland is an established journal which records all fieldwork undertaken and discoveries made in Scotland during the preceding year. It is a critical resource for archaeological research, and is unique in Europe. The online catalogue held by the ADS and consists of 54 volumes, from the first typescripts in 1947 through to 2001.

October 2007 ... Cleveland Farm, Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire (info)

Between 1984 and 1990 a series of archaeological investigations undertaken in the area around Cleveland Farm, Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire.revealed evidence for occupation dating from the Middle/Late Iron Age through to at least the 4th century AD, with some indications of early/middle Saxon activity. This work has recently been the subject of post-excavation analysis and publication undertaken by Wessex Archaeology through an Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund grant disbursed by English Heritage.

October 2007 ... Excavations at Spratsgate Lane, Somerford Keynes, Gloucestershire (info)

Gloucestershire County Council Archaeology Service carried out a programme of archaeological investigation between 1989 and 1996 at Spratsgate Lane, Somerford Keynes, Gloucestershire. The post-excavation work and publication of the results were funded by English Heritage through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF).

October 2007 ... Evaluating Aggregate in North West England: The Effectiveness of Geophysical Survey (info)

The Evaluating Aggregate in North West England project was undertaken by Terra Nova and funded through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund as rebursed by English Heritage. This project investigated the uses and products of geophysical surveys carried out for archaeological evaluation in the North West, concentrating on commercial projects since 1990.

October 2007 ... Radiocarbon dating bone samples recovered from gravel sites (info)

Radiocarbon Dating Bone Samples Recovered from Gravel Sites is an Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund project as disbursed by English Heritage. The project was undertaken by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit. A range of pre-screening criteria were tested to determine which, if any, could be used to identify those suitable for radiocarbon dating prior to collagen extraction. For this project 298 human and animal bones were analysed from 12 sites across southern England.

October 2007 ... Enhancing our Understanding: Shipwreck Importance (info)

The Identifying Shipwrecks of Historic Importance project was undertaken by staff of Bournemouth University and was funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund as administered by English Heritage. The project builds on the framework developed during the earlier On the Importance of Shipwrecks ALSF project undertaken by Wessex Archaeology.

October 2007 ... Assessment of Archaeology within marine aggregate (info)

The Assessment of Archaeology within Marine Aggregate project was undertaken by the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology and commissioned by English Heritage through the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund. The principle aim of the project was to undertake a review of how archaeology is considered in the Environmental Statements (ESs) which accompany marine aggregate dredging licence applications.

October 2007 ... England's Historic Seascapes: Solent and Isle of Wight (info)

The project is one of four pilot projects designed to apply the principles of HLC (Historic Landscape Characterisation) to the marine environment. This project built upon the intial methodology developed for the Liverpool Bay pilot study and seeks to develop MHLC (Marine Historic Landscape Characterisation).

September 2007 ... Royal Anne Galley Marine Environmental Assessment: Phase 1 Desk-based Assessment (info)

This project is the first Marine Environmental Assessment (MEA) of a protected wreck to be commissioned by English Heritage. The objectives of the Phase 1 Desk-Based Assessment were to: assess the broad archaeological and environmental context of the site and collate available sources and information including existing fieldwork results and archival material, discuss and evaluate potential marine environmental methods, establish the material type and extent of the site, assess the archaeological potential of the site and establish a strategy for further assessment (Phase 2) and monitoring (Phase 3). The Royal Anne Galley was a galley frigate was wrecked off the Lizard in 1721 while on voyage to the Barbados. There were only three survivors out of 200 passengers and crew. The most notable of those who perished was Lord Belhaven who was going to take up the Governorship of Barbados.

September 2007 ... The Silchester Project:Roman Town Insula IX The Development of an Urban Property c. AD 40-50 - c. AD 250 (info)

The Roman city of Calleva Atrebatum was subjected to an extensive programme of excavations by the Society of Antiquaries of London between 1890 and 1909. In 1997 a new programme of excavations began on part of insula ix with the aim of exploring the full sequence of occupation from the late Iron Age through to post-Roman abandonment. It rapidly emerged that House 1 had a complex history of development with abandonment and demolition in the mid 3rd century AD. This digital archive was undertaken in conjunction with an electronic publication through the Linking Electronic Archives and Publications (LEAP) project. The corresponding article can be found in Internet Archaeology 21.

August 2007 ... Surrey Extensive Urban Survey (info)

Extensive Urban Surveys have been undertaken or are presently being undertaken in a number of English counties as part of a wide ranging English Heritage initiative. Surrey, in common with many other counties, had a survey of its historic towns carried out almost thirty years ago, as a result of an initiative by the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments (then part of the Department of the Environment). This survey has formed a basis and background for archaeological work in towns throughout the ensuing period, but is now in urgent need of replacement to reflect current knowledge and planning concerns.

July 2007 ... Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project Project (info)

The Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project (TAESP) carried out intensive survey in the northern foothills of the Troodos Mountains in central Cyprus between 2000 and 2004. The survey covered all periods from the Neolithic to the present day, a wide range of topographical and environmental contexts, and utilised a broad spectrum of disciplinary and interdisciplinary expertise. The ADS archive and linked Internet Archaeology publication form the second exemplar in the LEAP (Linking Electronic Archives and Publications) project.

July 2007 ... Higher Barracks, Exeter (info)

Higher Barracks at Exeter were established in the late 18th century as part of a national scheme to improve military accommodation in response to the threat of an invasion during the French Revolutionary Wars. This report describes this important group of buildings and presents the evidence for their function and development recovered during archaeological work during their recent redevelopment for housing. Report text and images are available to download as pdf and jpg files.

July 2007 ... Cursuses and Related Monuments of the British Neolithic

In this nationwide survey completed in 1984 (written up and submitted 1985) all cursuses were plotted at a scale of 1:10560 and the smaller, but morphologically related, elongated ditches (oblong, trapeziform and ovate) at a scale of 1:2500. These common scales enable direct comparison and emphasize the link between large and small sites (eg. Llandegai; Holywood B (North); Thornborough). The truly massive Rudston and Dorset (Gussage & Pentridge) cursus complexes required substantial fold outs. These have been copied sectionally and reproduced here at slightly below 1:10560; sizing can be established from the smaller scale full plans and the gazetteer entries.

July 2007 ... England's Historic Seascapes: Southwold to Clacton (info)

This project builds upon the intial methodology developed for the Liverpool Bay pilot study and seeks to develop MHLC (Marine Historic Landscape Characterisation) to ensure the final methodology is suitable to apply nationally. The project is one of four pilot projects designed to apply the principles of HLC (Historic Landscape Characterisation) to the marine environment.

July 2007 ... England's Historic Seascapes: Liverpool Bay Pilot Area (info)

England's Historic Seascapes is a programme of pilot projects developing a methodology for mapping the historic character of our coastal and marine environment. The programme's initial project, the Liverpoool Bay Pilot Area, was undertaken by Wessex Archaeology and funded by the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund as distributed by English Heritage.

July 2007 ... The Evolution of the Port of Rye, Romney Marsh, Sussex (info)

The project comprises an interdisciplinary investigation into the environmental, coastal and landscape history of the port of Rye over the last 4000 years. The port of Rye is located in the south-west corner of the Romney Marsh depositional complex, which has a long history of coastal and landscape change driven by changes in the location, size and stability of sand and gravel beaches. At Rye, these beach sediments form an important aggregate resource, which is subject to ongoing extraction.

July 2007 ... Colne Valley Park Historic Landscape Characterisation (info)

The project complements the county HLC databases maintained by Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Surrey County Councils. As well as providing a detailed and cohesive historic landscape characterisation for the Park, this database includes additional information on historic farmsteads and estates, boundaries, routeways and waterways.

July 2007 ... Middle Thames Northern Tributaries (info)

Middle Thames Northern Tributaries (MTNT) is an Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund project concerned with the development of a Geographic Information System (GIS) based tool to assist with the research and curatorial management of the important archaeological and alluvial deposits located within the Middle Thames Northern Tributaries.

July 2007 ... Retreat Farm Quarry, Grimley, Worcestershire (info)

The project comprised a staged programme of archaeological investigation undertaken in response to an ongoing programme of mineral extraction by Tarmac Limited. The site was subject to a pre-PPG 16 planning permission and the project aim was to assess the impact of quarrying upon archaeological remains, and inform proposals for subsequent stages of mitigation within yet to be quarried areas.

July 2007 ... Beneath the soil from Trent to Nene: Assessment of the performance of geophysical survey in the East Midlands (info)

This research project was developed to assess the effectiveness of geophysical survey methods in an area focused upon the East Midlands, with the addition of Peterborough, Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. Particular emphasis is placed upon the performance of geophysical survey in the Trent and Nene Valleys.

July 2007 ... The Aggregate Landscape of Somerset: predicting the archaeological resource (info)

The project comprises of a largely HER based assessment of the archaeological resource within six character areas of past and current aggregate extraction within the County of Somerset. Included in these areas is a consideration of regions identified as possible future sources for aggregates from the Somerset Minerals Local Plan (MLP). The project also included a pilot aerial survey of two areas on the Eastern Mendip Hills and the Westonzoyland and Chedzoy Burtle Beds on the Somerset Levels.

July 2007 ... An assessment of the potential for in situ preservation of buried organic archaeological remains at Sutton Common, South Yorkshire

This PhD thesis approaches the issue of the in situ preservation of archaeology, specifically in a wetland environment where it is recognised that organic materials are often preserved in an exceptional condition. The study site is Sutton Common, an Iron Age double enclosure located in South Yorkshire. The full text and appendices of the thesis are available to download as a series of pdf files.

July 2007 ... Advanced computer modelling of hominin dispersal from Africa: integrating archaeological and palaeoclimatic simulations. (info)

This project was funded through NERC's EFCHED thematic programme. This project combined expertise from the fields of climatology and archaeology in order to develop a new computer model for exploring, through simulation, hominin dispersal out of Africa. The process-based approach builds on the Stepping Out model of hominin colonisation developed a number of years ago by Professor Steven Mithen of Reading University. It also incorporates information from palaeoclimatic simulations by Professor Paul Valdes of Bristol University which were completed using the Hadley Centre climate model. The methods developed during this project provided a powerful method for integrating genetic, fossil, archaeological and climate data, to increase our understanding of prehistoric migrations.

July 2007 ... Cercopithecine models as a contextual framework for human evolution (info)

A major aim of this project was to compile a database of variation in modern African cercopithecine monkeys (baboons, mangabeys and guenons) to facilitate the construction of morphological and behavioural models for human evolution. The dataset available here represents the first stage of work, comprising a subset of morphological and spatial data from one cercopithecine tribe, the Cercopithecini (guenons).

June 2007 ... The Excavation of the Cleatham Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, North Lincolnshire (info)

This digital archive presents the full catalogues of urns, inhumations and finds discovered during the excavations at Cleatham Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the 1980's. The databases are searchable online and each individual table is also available for download. There is a large collection of illustrations which can be viewed alongside the database. The digital archive is intended to complement a Council for British Archaeology publication about the site which is due for release in July 2007.

June 2007 ... West Stow, Lackford Bridge, Suffolk (info)

This project concerns the results of an archaeological excavation undertaken on West Stow heath in the Breckland region of north-west Suffolk (SMR ref. WSW 030; TL 791 713). The excavation was carried out in advance of gravel quarrying during December 1978 and January 1979 by the Suffolk Archaeological Unit (now Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service) under the direction of Linden Elmhirst.

June 2007 ... England's Historic Seascapes: Scarborough to Hartlepool and adjacent marine zones (info)

The Scarborough to Hartlepool and adjacent marine zones project was undertaken by Cornwall County Council's Historic Environment Service and funded by the Marine Aggregates Levy Sustainability fund as distributed by English Heritage. The project applies a Historic Seascapes Characterisation (HSC) to the coastal, inter-tidal and marine zones of North Yorkshire and Teeside, from Scarborough to Hartlepool.

June 2007 ... Rapid Archaeological Site Surveying and Evaluation in the Marine Environment (info)

The principal aim of the project was to test and develop rapid, quantitative, remote (geophysical) sensing techniques for the enhanced investigation of maritime archaeological sites in sensitive aggregate extraction areas. Furthermore, the project attempted to improve temporal and environmental assessment methods for sites and areas of key archaeological significance.

June 2007 ... Enhancing our Understanding: Mapping Navigational Hazards as areas of Maritime Archaeological Potential (info)

The project focuses on identifying areas, described and depicted in historical sources, where ship losses are more likely due primarily to environmental navigational hazards. The presence of archaeological material on the seabed is also dependent on the nature of the maritime environment and its potential for preserving materials in situ. An approach is therefore being developed to categorise seabed sediment types by their preservation qualities in order to identify areas where the two coincide.

June 2007 ... A template for increasing public awareness of archaeological investigations associated with mineral workings (info)

The Template for Increasing Public Awareness of Archaeological Investigations Associated with Mineral Workings project was funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund as distributed by English Heritage. The project was initiated by Hanson Aggregates in conjunction with Cambridge Archaeological Unit of the University of Cambridge. The project increased public awareness of the vast amount of archaeological knowledge and finds arising from investigation works associated with mineral extraction andarchaeological fieldwork programmes at Hanson's Needingworth (Barleycroft Farm/Over), Colne Fen, Earith and Bradley Fen, Whittlesey Quarries.

June 2007 ... Modelling the Stratigraphy and Geoarchaeolgy of English Valley Systems (info)

The Modelling the Stratigraphy and Geoarchaeology of English River Valley Systems is an Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund project carried out by the Department of Geography and Environment: University of Oxford. The project was primarily concerned with investigating the relative preservation rates of stratigraphic units within aggrading fluvial systems, together with the short and long term impact of climatic pertubations.

June 2007 ... Trent Valley: Making Archaeology Matter (info)

This recently published booklet aims to provide a brief introduction to the archaeological issues associated with sand and gravel quarrying in the Trent Valley, one of the major sources of sand and gravel in the UK.

May 2007 ... The Origin and Spread of Neolithic Plant Economies in the Near East and Europe (info)

The aims of this (ongoing) project are to establish precisely the nature of the changes that food production systems underwent during the first phases of the adoption of agriculture, and to isolate the causal factors that brought about such changes (e.g., whether environmental, cultural, or even random) across different regions of southwest Asia and Europe. To address these questions a database was constructed by Sue Colledge which comprised archaeobotantical records taken from both published and unpublished reports.

May 2007 ... Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England, AD 450-700 (info)

This database has been extracted from a much larger collection of data compiled by staff and volunteers at The Anglo-Saxon Laboratory (which incorporates Textile Research). The extract covers the period AD 450-700 and includes 3802 records of textiles from 162 Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. It has been made available as part of the Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England project, funded by English Heritage, and it forms the basis of the book: Penelope Walton Rogers (2007) Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England, AD 450-700'.

May 2007 ... Iron Age and Roman Coins from Wales (info)

This comprehensive digital database of ancient coins currently includes details of 52,813 coins (the vast majority of which are Roman) from 1172 separate finds (these include excavated assemblages, hoards, single finds and indeterminate groups of coins). Each coin is described in detail (up to fifteen fields, although the completeness of each entry depends on the original source) allowing the analysis of these objects by metal, denomination, emperor or ruler, mint, date of production, or a number of other numismatic criteria.

May 2007 ... Inclusive Accessible Archaeology (info)

This project addresses the dual issues of disability and transferable skills in the teaching of archaeological fieldwork. It will increase awareness of disability issues in Archaeology and improve the integration of disability in fieldwork teaching. The emphasis is on the development of a self-assessment tool kit for physical and psychological abilities in fieldwork. This tool will increase students' awareness of their acquisition of transferable skills and promote careers management skills.

April 2007 ... Cultural heritage management and the palaeo-environmental resource: Surveying the surface-visable palaeochannel record in the Trent Valley, UK (info)

The Trent Valley Palaeochannels Database is a GIS archive of 1204 palaeochannels and 34 areas of ridge and swale topography mapped from geo-referenced aerial photographs during 2003. The work was carried out by Trent Valley GeoArchaeology, a partnership of academic, professional and commercial stakeholders, as part of a multidisciplinary project, Trent Valley 2002, funded through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.

April 2007 ... Reburial of Organic Archaeological Remains (info)

The primary aim of this English Heritage funded project was to characterise the environmental conditions of possible suitable sites for reburial of archaeological wood, to assess their effectiveness for wood preservation, and to develop protocols for reburying waterlogged archaeological timbers under conditions optimal to their preservation. The archive consists of two documents, a final report detailing the results of the project together with a protocol for the identification of suitable sites.

April 2007 ... Application of archaeological geophysical techniques to the investigation of British smelting sites

Many archaeological researchers regard the magnetic anomalies produced by a furnace, or a slag dump, as the most a magnetometer survey can reveal about a smelting site. The research presented in this Thesis has shown this not to be correct. By conducting an in-depth examination of the geophysical responses produced by the different stages in the various metallurgical processes the research has confirmed that smelting sites can be geophysically evaluated to a greater extent than previously achieved.

April 2007 ... A Mortarium Bibliography for Roman Britain (info)

The purpose of this mortarium bibliography is to collate the disparate literature on mortaria in order to make it more accessible to pottery specialists and other interested individuals. Undertaken principally between 1995 and 1998, with some updating in 2001 and 2004, the resulting bibliography is essentially, but not totally, comprehensive for the last thirty years. Earlier reports and monographs of particular importance were included, but much interesting earlier material had to be omitted. In addition to the bibliographic reference, set information was recorded on pro forma for each reference with illustrated profiles of mortaria.

April 2007 ... Fading Rock Art Landscapes (info)

This project carried out by a team at Durham University with British Academy funding, looks at the rate of erosion and degradation of prehistoric rock art within the landscape. A combination of visual and microscopic analytical techniques are used to examine the extent to which landscape perspectives in rock-art studies can have confidence in the representativeness of their databases and therefore the conclusions based upon them.

March 2007 ... Extensive Urban Survey - Bedfordshire and Luton

The Bedfordshire and Luton Extensive Urban Survey was part of a national programme of work coordinated by English Heritage. The project aims to re-evaluate the urban archaeological resource and to provide comprehensive and consistent base-line information against which research, regeneration and land use planning objectives may be set. The survey of the historic towns of Bedfordshire and Luton was funded by English Heritage. The Heritage and Environment Section of Bedfordshire County Council commissioned Albion Archaeology on behalf of the County Council and Luton Borough Council to undertake assessments of the 12 historic towns in the county. The project was managed by the County Archaeological Officer. Research and preparation of the assessments took place between 2001 and 2003, with a final revision and editing in early 2005. The project was carried out on behalf of Bedfordshire County Council and Luton Borough Council who act as archaeological advisors on planning matters and are responsible for maintaining the County Historic Environment Record and the Borough Historic Environment Records respectively.

March 2007 ... Charlestown Shipwreck and Heritage Centre (info)

The Charlestown Shipwreck and Heritage Centre is located in the small harbour of Charlestown, near St Austell in Cornwall. It is a privately owned maritime museum housing many objects recovered from historic shipwrecks. The objects on display range in date from the 16th century ot the present day. The main aim of this project is the recording of objects in the Charlestown Shipwreck and Heritage Centre originating from wrecks currently protected under the Protection of Wrecks act 1973 (PWA). The record includes a finds database, a provenance record detailing how the objects ended up in the museum and a detailed photographic record of the objects.

February 2007 ... Extensive Urban Survey - Essex

The EUS for Essex has been funded by English Heritage as part of its national programme intended to tackle the lack of archaeological work on small towns. It is hoped that these reports will remedy the lack of adequate information and research agenda faced by those responsible for ensuring the effective preservation, evaluation and recording of elements of the urban environment threatened by development processes. It is also intended to provide English Heritage with guidance as to what resources may be worthy of statutory protection through Scheduling or Listing, and assist the District and Borough Councils of Northamptonshire in the definition of Conservation Areas. The survey encompasses all known nucleated settlements in the county from the Roman to the modern period, with the notable exception of Northampton which is the subject of a separate Intensive Urban Survey project. The additional potential of the Extensive Urban Survey project to contribute to wider initiatives concerned with improving the appreciation and understanding of the historic urban environment of the county has also been recognised.

January 2007 ... On the Importance of Shipwrecks. ALSF Project Number 3767 (info)

The On the Importance of Shipwrecks project developed a framework and methodology for evaluating the importance of the physical remains of wrecks on the seabed. The project included a literature review; consultation with curatorial staff and environmental consultants; and the development of a draft framework to trial on sub-sets of wreck records from the National Monuments Record.

January 2007 ... BMAPA Protocol for reporting finds of archaeological interest. ALSF Project Number 3645 (info)

With the support of the ALSF, English Heritage has funded Wessex Archaeology to design and produce Protocol documentation, which has been distributed to wharves and vessels operated by BMAPA companies. The protocol applies to members of staff employed by the aggregate dredging companies and provide for finds being made on the seabed, on board dredging vessels, and at wharves.

January 2007 ... Stopes Palaeolithic Archive. ALSF Project Number 3338 (info)

The Stopes Palaeolithic Archive project was backed by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund as distributed by English Heritage, and undertaken by Francis Wenban-Smith of the University of Southampton. The project is focused on the study of a very substantial collection of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts made by Henry Stopes, a private collector, in the late 19th century. Most of the artefacts in the collection came from Pleistocene deposits exposed by quarrying in the Swanscombe area of Kent.

January 2007 ... Greenhow Hill Lead Mines Survey. ALSF Project Number 3493 (info)

Greenhow Hill Village is situated in the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the county of North Yorkshire. The local landscape has a well-documented tradition of mineral and aggregate extraction stretching back to at least the early medieval period. The Greenhow Hill Lead Mines Survey is an English Heritage distributed Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund Project, commissioned by the Nidderdale AONB and undertaken in part by Martin Roe on behalf of the Northern Mine Research Society.

January 2007 ... England's Army Camps 1858-2000 (info)

The England's Army Camps project represents the most recent and most detailed survey and analysis of an important aspect of England's military history. The project was undertaken in two stages. The first stage, authored by Dr David Evans consists of a documentary study of the evidence for the construction and use of army camps in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland between 1858 and 2000. The second stage, authored by William Foot, represents the field checking of the English sites identified in the first stage. The project was funded by English Heritage and undertaken for English Heritage's Characterisation Team.

January 2007 ... Historic Farmsteads: Preliminary Characterisation (info)

The overall aim of the Historic Farmsteads: Preliminary Characterisation project is to produce a national booklet for England, supported by a web-based Preliminary Regional Character Statement for each of the eight government regions, that will raise awareness of the contribution that historic farm buildings (HFBs) make to rural areas and will help to inform relevant policy formulation. The work was carried out by English Heritage, The Countryside Agency and The University of Gloucestershire in 2006. The archive consists of the the National Policy booklet which contains an overview of the importance of traditional farm buildings, the drivers of change that affect their management and regional summaries of their character as well as Preliminary Regional Character Statement Booklets for each of the 8 government regions.

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December 2006 ... Creswell Crags: Management of Pleistocene Archives and Collections. ALSF Project Number 2175 (info)

The Creswell Crags collection assessment project was initiated by the Creswell Heritage trust with funding from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund distributed by English Heritage. The project took the form of an audit and assessment of the Pleistocene Collection excavated from Creswell Crags and the immediate limestone heritage area. The survey set out to establish the location, range, quantity, quality and condition of Creswell Pleistocene archaeology. The archive consists of the final project report and the gazetteer of sites and associated material in four tables.

December 2006 ... Chewton Mendip, Somerset: Historic Turnpike Wall Restoration Project. ALSF Project Number 4689 (info)

The Turnpike Wall Project was funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF), as disbursed through English Heritage. The archive consists of the final project PDF report and is accompanied by images of the restoration work in progress.

December 2006 ... Quantifying the functional utility of handaxe symmetry: an experimental butchery approach (info)

The aim of this series of experiments was to empirically test the relationship between Acheulean handaxe form and effectiveness for butchery, and contribute to the continuing discussion regarding the factors influencing handaxe form. The archived dataset comprises a time log for the use of each handaxe (derived from video footage of the experiments) which details the time taken to complete the various processes involved in the butchery of half a deer carcass, digital images of the experimental handaxe assemblage and summary spreadsheets of the data collected - i.e. time and subjective scorings - for each butcher.

December 2006 ... Where Rivers Meet: Landscape, Ritual, Settlement and the Archaeology of River Gravels. ALSF Project Number 3349 (info)

Where Rivers Meet is an Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund project that is studying the archaeological resource at the confluence of the Trent and the Tame rivers in south-eastern Staffordshire. This is one of the most intensively quarried landscapes for aggregates extraction in the country. It also contains a remarkable archaeological record, beginning with well-preserved megafauna from the Late Pleistocene and including a Neolithic/Early Bronze Age ritual landscape, an Iron age and Romano-British settlenment landscape, and an extensive Anglo-Saxon settlement and cemeteries. This archive consists of six volumes of reports covering the multi-disciplinary investigation of this landscape.

December 2006 ... Thornborough Henges: Air Photo Mapping Project. ALSF Project Number 3897 (info)

The Thornborough Henges Air Photo Mapping Project was funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF), as disbursed through English Heritage. The archive consists of the PDF report produced as the result of the mapping of an area 100km square centred on the nationally important prehistoric complex at Thornborough.

December 2006 ... Salmonsbury Camp, Greystones Farm, Gloucestershire. ALSF Project Number 4697 (info)

This resource contains PDF versions of the interpretation boards and informative leaflet produced by restoration work on the Scheduled Monument of Salmonsbury Camp.

November 2006 ... Medieval Monastic Cemeteries of Britain (1050-1600): a digital resource and database of excavated samples (info)

This resource is the result of a national survey of medieval burial practice carried out through the detailed study of excavated cemetery samples, primarily from religious houses, covering the period c 1050 - 1600 CE. All forms of religious house have been considered, and some comparanda from emergency cemeteries, parochial cemeteries, cathedral cemeteries and Jewish cemeteries were also gathered. Where the data permitted, digital plans of each cemetery have been compiled, and a relational database constructed to capture all variable attributes of grave cut, skeletal demography, burial container, and artefacts associated with the burial. The digital resource presented here covers over 8000 excavated medieval burials from 70 separate cemetery excavations in England, Wales and Scotland.

October 2006 ... Roman Amphorae: a digital resource (info)

The Amphora Project, developed by the Archaeology group at the University of Southampton and funded by the Arts and Humanities Reasearch Council (AHRC), aims to provide an online introductory resource for the study of Roman amphorae. The resource builds upon two works published in the 1980s and presents basic typological information, including photos and drawings, for c.250 forms. The resource also contains extensive information, both text and images, on fabric types. All sections of the archive are fully searchable online as is an extensive bibliography.

October 2006 ... Wearmouth and Jarrow Monastic Sites: Volume 2 Appendix C (info)

This collection contains the finds and context database from the excavations by Rosemary Cramp at the twin-monastery sites of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Northumbria.

October 2006 ... Extensive Urban Survey - Cumbria (info)

Cumbria County Council carried out a survey of 23 small towns in Cumbria as part of the national EUS programme instigated and funded by English Heritage. Copies of the reports in PDF format have been deposited with the Archaeology Data Service and are available for download.

October 2006 ... The Nidderdale AONB Archaeological Survey Archiving Project (info)

This collection contains the results from the archaeological survey portion of the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Project. The aim of this survey was to concord various datasets which had been produced by previous work; to verify and record existing features, and to identify any further features within the area.

September 2006 ... The Whittlewood Project: Medieval Settlements and Landscapes in the Whittlewood Area (info)

The principal aim of this project was to explore the origins and development of a group of rural settlements in the Central Midlands which adopted both nucleated and dispersed forms, and to explore the reasons for this divergence. The digital archive contains a variety of electronically generated files, including working papers, drafts of publications, notes, transcripts of historical documents, reports of archaeological fieldwork, databases of archaeological finds, raw and processed data from earthwork and geophysical survey, GIS files, illustrations, images and video clips.

August 2006 ... Breaking Through Rock Art Recording: 3D laser scanning of megalithic rock art (info)

This project tests the technique of 3D laser scanning for the recording of prehistoric rock carvings. Sites studied were Castlerigg Stone Circle, Long Meg and Copt Howe in Cumbria and Horseshoe Rock in Northumberland. Data available within this archive includes raw laser scanning data, visulisations of the datasets and images of fieldwork in progress, along with supporting information and publications relating to the project.

July 2006 ... Mapping Medieval Townscapes: a digital atlas of the new towns of Edward I (info)

This resource derives from the Mapping the medieval urban landscape research project which began in 2003 with two years funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Using mapping as a medium, the project examined how urban landscapes were shaped in the middle ages, and further an understanding of the forms and formation of medieval towns. It is the first project to have used spatial technologies - Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) - as a basis for mapping and analysing medieval urban landscapes. The project archive contains an interactive Web-GIS interface, as well as full access to the data contained within the digital archive.

July 2006 ... Mesolithic Miscellany

The Mesolithic Miscellany newsletter was first set up in 1980 and ran until 1996. It was published twice a year and aimed to include virtually any information of relevance to the European Mesolithic. The entire thirty-two issue run of the newsletter is now available to download as PDF files.

July 2006 ... Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Volumes 128 (1998) and 129 (1999) of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland are now available for download as PDF files.

July 2006 ... Extensive Urban Survey - Kent (info)

Kent County Council carried out a survey of 46 small towns in Kent as part of the national EUS programme instigated and funded by English Heritage. Copies of the reports in PDF format have been deposited with the Archaeology Data Service and are available for download.

June 2006 ... The Archaeology Image Bank

The Higher Education Academy Archaeology Image Bank is now available. It contains just under 600 images suitable for teaching, learning and research in archaeology and this number will increase as more people make image donations. Each image supplied has accompanying metadata to allow effective search and retrieval of relevant images online.

June 2006 ... Landscape Archaeology and Community in Devon (info)

The project uses oral history in order to advance and enhance existing knowledge of landscape change, to test and challenge the formation of this knowledge and thereby bring greater understanding to our study of the meaning of landscape. The project has three specific research questions: To document the nature of farming history within the areas of Devon that are currently under investigation in the landscape archaeology projects. To relate landscape changes produced by the WW2 plough up campaign on both previous and subsequent landscape histories, and to evaluate socio-cultural meanings of such landscape changes in rural communities.

June 2006 ... Somerset Historic Environment Record update

Update of the Somerset HER bringing the total number of records to 29,136 each of which is linked directly to the full on-line record held at Somerset County Council.

June 2006 ... Sussex Archaeological Collections Volume 143

Table of Contents, abstracts and supplements for Sussex Archaeological Collections Volume 143 are now available.

May 2006 ... Lead and Strontium Isotope Compositions of Human Dental Tissues as an Indicator of Ancient Exposure and Population Dynamics

Janet Montgomery's Ph.D. thesis examining migrants amongst British archaeological cemetery populations since the Neolithic.

March 2006 ... NMRS reload

A reload of the National Monuments Record of Scotland adding over 24,000 new records bringing the total to over 257,000. Each is linked to the full Canmore record.

March 2006 ... WoSAS SMR reload

The West of Scotland Archaeology Service SMR records have been updated. There are now nearly 33,000 records in the catalogue, each linking to fuller details held by WoSAS and many with a link to related NMRS Canmore records.

March 2006 ... Stonehenge 20th Century Excavations Databases

A collection of databases compiled by Wessex Archaeology detailing finds, photographs and graphics from excavations carried out between 1901 and 1994.

February 2006 ... Extensive Urban Survey - Northamptonshire (info)

The EUS for Northamptonshire has been funded by English Heritage as part of its national programme intended to tackle the lack of archaeological work on small towns. The survey encompasses all known nucleated settlements in the county from the Roman to the modern period, with the notable exception of Northampton which is the subject of a separate Intensive Urban Survey project. Copies of the reports in PDF format have been deposited with the Archaeology Data Service and are available for download.

Feb 2006 ... Analysis of Roman Silver Coins, Augustus to Nero (27 BC - AD 69)

Results from the analysis of the metal content of 176 Roman silver coins. The dataset consists of ICP-AES analysis results, numismatic descriptions and pictures of the coins.

Feb 2006 ... Sussex Archaeological Collections Volume 140

Articles from the 2002 edition of this journal are now available for download as pdf files.

Jan 2006 ... Downland Settlement and Land-use: The Archaeology of the Brighton Bypass

This book is the product of the rescue excavations carried out during the construction of the A27 Brighton Bypass, East Sussex, between 1989 and 1991 by the University College London Field Archaeology Unit. The archaeological works were designed within a research framework to investigate chalk downland settlement and land-use, from the Mesolithic to the present day. A particular aim of the project was to integrate settlement archaeology into a paleoenvironmental study.

[2005]

December 2005 ... Clifford's Tower (info)

This archive consists of a searchable database of resources relating to the history of the Clifford's Tower area in York. These references include modern and historical texts, archaeological excavations, objects, websites, film and music. They are held by a number of institutions and organisations in and around York.

December 2005 ... New CBA Research Report released

Cataractonium: Roman Catterick and its hinterland. Excavations and research, 1958-1997 Part I
An account of the excavations and fieldwork undertaken in and around the Roman small town of Catterick, North Yorkshire.

November 2005 ... Extensive Urban Survey - The Central Marches Historic Towns Survey 1992-6 (info)

Hereford and Worcester County Archaeological Service (now Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service) launched the Central Marches Historic Towns Survey in 1992, as part of the national EUS programme instigated and funded by English Heritage. The project comprised a survey of all the smaller towns in the (former) county of Hereford and Worcester, as well as in Shropshire (the three county towns were excluded). Copies of the reports in PDF format have been deposited with the Archaeology Data Service and are available for download.

November 2005 ... The Upper Derwent: long-term landscape archaeology in the Peak District.

Bill Bevan's Ph.D. thesis, an interpretation of the landscape history of the Upper Derwent, covering a period from the approximate end of the last Ice Age to the modern day.

November 2005 ... Stone in Archaeology - towards a Digital Resource (info)

An AHRB funded project which has built upon the large pre-existing collection of archaeologically relevant comparative rock samples held at Southampton University, creating a searchable relational database. The database provides information regarding the use, quarry location / vicinity and distribution of the stone throughout various periods of history. The resource's ability to be manipulated in many different ways enables specific questions to be asked about trade and exchange, movement of materials and distribution.

November 2005 ... The Hazardous Project

Details and reports from the archive and a selection of digitised photographs resulting from 20 years of archaeological investigations of the wreck of Warship Hazardous which sank in a storm north east of the Isle of Wight in November 1706.

October 2005 ... Extensive Urban Survey - Hertfordshire (info)

The Hertfordshire Extensive Urban Survey project began in 1997, as part of the national EUS programme instigated and funded by English Heritage. It was carried out by Hertfordshire County Council's Archaeology Section (now the Historic Environment Unit). It consists of 25 surveys which range from the Roman roadside settlement of Cow Roast, which has no medieval or later successor, through a failed Saxon borough at Ashwell, to the market town of Hemel Hempstead founded by Henry VIII.

October 2005 ... The Iron Trade in England and Wales 1500-1815: the charcoal iron industry and its transition to coke

This archive contains the full text of Peter King's Ph.D. thesis 'The Iron Trade in England and Wales: the charcoal iron industry and its transition to coke' together with the main datasets used in its preparation. This research has aimed to compile a brief history of every blast furnace, forge, steel furnace, slitting mill, and tinplate works, and of certain other kinds of iron mill operating in the 16th to 18th centuries, and to determine as far as possible its ownership, size and trading relationships. This thesis presents some of the conclusions of a much larger research programme into the history of the iron industry in England and Wales.

October 2005 ... The Eagle in the Landscape: The Archaeology of the Cotswold Water Park

A study by Oxford Archaeology of the Iron Age and Roman landscape of the Cotswold Water Park region in the Upper Thames Valley.

October 2005 ... The Sutton Hoo Research Project 1983-2001

The archaeological site of Sutton Hoo, located in Suffolk, south-east England, is famous for the Anglo-Saxon ship burial discovered there in 1939. Investigations at the site since 1939 have, however, revealed a wide range of finds and features that have shed light on occupation and activity at the site within a far wider timescale. The Sutton Hoo Research Project archive contains all ten Field Report volumes from the 1983-2001 excavations together with a large number of accompanying site plans, the complete finds index and a photo gallery containing images from the 1938-9 excavations up to the most recent investigations.

August 2005 ... Guildford Castle Excavations (info)

This digital archive from Surrey Archaeological Society is designed to sit alongside their new publication of the 1990-1994 Guildford Castle Excavations. The digital supplementary files presented here consist of 58 tables of data including site context records and quantification of pottery, glass, mortar, tile, slag, shells, fish and animal bones found on site. Tables can be viewed as pdf files or downloaded individually in formats more suitable for analysis.

August 2005 ... Construction and re-use of Bargrennan chambered cairns, South-West Scotland

A digital archive including photographs, plans and interim and specialist reports from the excavations at Cairnderry and Bargrennan White Cairn chambered tombs. The project was instigated to investigate the initial construction and use of 'Bargrennan' style chambered cairns in Dumfries and Galloway. Excavations were conducted at Cairnderry from 2002-2004. These excavations answered some questions about the initial construction of the site, though they have not provided a secure dating framework for construction, and discoveries during the 2003 season illustrated that the perimeter of the site had become the focus of mortuary practices around 1900-1700 BC. As a result the project was adjusted to consider the re-use of Bargrennan sites in the Bronze Age as well as continuing to investigate their original construction.

July 2005 ... Predicting the Location of Hominin Sites in Africa and Asia (info)

This project aimed to assess the distribution of Palaeolithic sites and hominin remains in Africa and Asia and attempted to understand the factors that may affect the preservation of such archaeological material in the fossil record. GIS was then used to formulate a method of predicting where well-preserved palaeolithic archaeological sites might be located on the basis of collagen degradation. Data from this project is available here, presented as a searchable database of hominin sites, an interactive map and downloadable GIS files.

July 2005 ... Montgomeryshire Placename Database

The Montgomeryshire Placename Database contains over 10,000 modern and 23,000 associated placenames for the county of Montgomeryshire and was complied between 1987 and 1998 by members of the Powysland Club. The database is primarily designed to provide historical information on modern placenames and can be searched using a full placename or element, parish or six figure grid reference. The database provides information on two distinct levels: detailed geographical information and notes on modern 'top-level' placenames and historical information, notes and provenance on past related placenames.

June 2005 ... National Museums & Galleries of Wales Collection

Core fields from the National Museums & Galleries of Wales's Collection Management System. It consists of over 141,760 records relating to the British archaeology collections including material held in the National Museum & Gallery Cardiff, the Roman Legionary Museum Caerleon and Segontium Roman Museum.

June 2005 ... Roman brooches in Britain: a technological and typological study based on the Richborough collection

A survey of some 3500 Roman brooches found in Britain has been published as report number 68 from the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. The raw brooch data that was analysed as part of this survey is available to download as a comma-delimited file from the ADS.

May 2005 ... Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority Historic Environment Record

The Yorkshire Dales National Park, one of 12 National Parks in England and Wales, has now made it's Historic Environment Record (HER) available through the ADS Catalogue, ArchSearch. The HER contains over 13500 entries covering the archaeology of the Yorkshire Dales. It has been made available online as part of Out of Oblivion : Improving Access to Information about the Historic Environment, a Heritgae Lottery funded project. The core of the Out of Oblivion website is a series of thematic, area and period based essays linked to a small illustrated database of accessible or typical sites and features, each of which has details about access. HER records which have been included in the Out of Oblivion project are linked to the more detailed record.

May 2005 ... Trent Valley 2002: Trent Valley GeoArchaeology Bibliographic Database

The purpose of the Trent Valley GeoArchaeology Bibliographic Database (TVGAB) is to provide a single means of access to all bibliographic sources for the archaeology of the Trent Valley. Specifically, this database will: facilitate the access of information on archaeological works across the whole Trent Valley area; provide bibliographic sources to allow the Trent Valley to be seen as a single geographical unit; Maximise the effectiveness of future work on the Trent Valley by providing a gateway to all resources in an integrated way; preserve a record of past and current unpublished resources for the Trent Valley.

May 2005 ... Samian Pottery, a Resource for the Study of Roman Britain and Beyond (info)

An archive conatining the supporting data from the Samian Project funded by English Heritage. The archive accompanies the full findings of the project which have been published in Internet Archaeology .

April 2005 ... Dayr Mar Elian Archaeological Project, Syria (info)

A gallery of over 600 images from excavations at the monastic site of Dayr Mar Elian in Syria.

April 2005 ... Society of Antiquaries of London: Catalogue of Drawings & Museum Objects (info)

A database of over 4100 drawings and museum objects from the Society's collections has been created. The database includes images of over 2000 of these items. The drawings digitised and made available on this website have been taken from albums compiled in rough subject divisions in the 1840s. Some of them are of objects first shown to members of the Society and now in national museums. Other outstanding items are now missing, such as the ring presented by Mary Queen of Scots, and the unique Anglo-Saxon silver hanging bowl from the River Witham.

April 2005 ... English National Inventory Online

The National Inventory is the primary record of England's archaeological and architectural sites held by the National Monuments Record (NMR) and contains over 400,000 records. It encompasses the historic environment in its widest sense and includes archaeological, architectural and historical sites from earliest times to the present day, covering England and its territorial waters (the 12 mile limit).

April 2005 ... Nailsea Glassworks study

A study of the life of the Nailsea Glassworks, in its time regarded as one of the most significant glassworks in the UK. The study is divided into five parts: Introduction, Desk-top study, the Archaeological Interventions, Technology, and the Human Story (Social and Economic). These are available in PDF format.

March 2005 ... Llandough

A database of over 800 burials was produced during excavations on this Early Medieval cemetery site. This database is now available as an online searchable resource, linked through to an interactive site plan on which distributions of burials can be plotted. The interactive map can also be used to query and view the burials data directly.

February 2005 ... Facing the Palace: Excavations in front of the Roman Palace at Fishbourne (info)

Digital data is now available from the excavations which took place just in front of the Roman Palace at Fishbourne, Sussex beginning in 1995, with the final six-week season taking place in 1999. This archive includes supplement text, images and a database to complement the published volume of the Sussex Archaeological Collections (volume 141).

February 2005 ... Library of Unpublished Fieldwork Reports

This resource gives access to grey literature produced by contracting field units online. There are currently 177 reports available and this number should increase steadily as more are made available through the OASIS project .

[2004]

December 2004 ... Excavations at the Viking Barrow Cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire

Digital data is now available from the 1998-2000 excavations of three barrows within this Scandinavian barrow cemetery. This archive includes a small number of digital data sets to complement the published report in the Antiquaries Journal.

November 2004 ... New CBA Research Reports released

A further 4 CBA Research Reports (97-100) are now available from our online library, including the second part of the Roman Alcester excavations. We now hold a complete series up to volume 100.

November 2004 ... Extensive Urban Survey - Hampshire

Funded by English Heritage, the Extensive Urban Survey (EUS) projects represent the most recent and most detailed analysis of England's historic small towns. Undertaken on a county-by-county basis, the survey is intended to provide an up-to-date view of the archaeological resource in each of the towns and consists of three phases: Data Collection, Data Assessment and Strategy. The final two stages of the process led to the production of a number of reports which present an overview and analysis of the history of each town together with future strategy and planning policy for each town's historic environment.

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Extensive Urban Survey (EUS) was undertaken by archaeologists from Hampshire County Council's Environment Group between 1997 and 1999. The survey covers 30 historic towns, 23 in Hampshire and 7 on the Isle of Wight and provides a review of the historical and archaeological significance of the towns, and areas within the towns, setting out guidelines for their future sustainable management. The surveys do not include the urban centres of Winchester or Southampton which were more suitable for the Urban Area Database (UAD) project, also funded by English Heritage.

November 2004 ... Pig Measurements From Durrington Walls

The 'Pig Measurements from Durrington Walls' database provides data on a large sample of well-preserved teeth and bones from the late Neolithic site of Durrington Walls (Wiltshire, southern England). The aim of compiling the database was to build up a data set that can be of great use as a comparative baseline for other European material and would address the problem that small samples of pig measurements are not particularly meaningful if analysed in isolation. The measurements presented in this database paper derive from excavations carried out in 1966-67 (Wainwright & Longworth, 1971) and are in support of a forthcoming paper by Albarella & Payne.

October 2004 ... Beads from Anglo-Saxon Graves

Birte Brugmann's Beads from Anglo-Saxon Graves digital archive consists of a downloadable spreadsheet containing information on 32,000 beads from Anglo-Saxon graves of the 5th to 8th centuries. The spreadsheet represents beads of a variety of materials from 106 sites in nine Anglo-Saxon regions and was created as part of Brugmann's 2004 publication Glass beads from Early Anglo-Saxon Graves. A study on the provenance and chronology of glass beads from Anglo-Saxon Graves .

October 2004 ... HMJ Underhill Archive

The Institute of Archaeology at Oxford University and the Archaeology Data Service / AHDS Archaeology are delighted to promote a newly completed image archive for archaeology, the HMJ Underhill Archive.

Henry Michael John Underhill (1855-1920) was an Oxford antiquarian and magic lantern slide painter who had wide-ranging interests: entomology and microscopy, the anthropology of folk-tales and British archaeology from prehistory to the vernacular architecture of windmills. For many years he was a prominent member of two Oxford amateur societies which served as vehicles for intellectual communication between interested Oxford citizens and members of the University: The Oxfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, and The Oxford Camera Club.

Underhill's antiquarian collection is now in the care of the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford University who have now digitised an important selection of these slides. The online collection represents 78 hand-painted glass slides and 17 photographic glass lantern slides. They are mainly concerned with three topics: The Stone Circles of Britain; The Roman Cities of Britain; and Windmills. However, as artefacts in their own right the images document the development of photography and imaging in archaeology as well as HMJ Underhill's intellectual and social milieu. The digital images are served from the Institute of Archaeology in Oxford, and are archived for preservation by ADS/AHDS Archaeology.

September 2004 ... Channel Tunnel Rail Link Archive

Union Railways, Rail Link Engineering and the ADS are delighted to announce the arrival of a major new research archive for the archaeology of Kent: Phase One of the Archaeological Archive from the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. The construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) has provided a unique opportunity to investigate thousands of years of change and development across the landscape. The archaeological programme of works associated with the CTRL is probably the largest ever undertaken in the UK and investigations in advance of and during construction have revealed an impressively rich array of information. This has generated a vast archive of archaeological data and key discoveries have included the first Neolithic long-house to be found in Kent, a Romano-British villa and two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. In total, this phase has produced 122 new research archives, including 31 full scale excavations, 14 geophysical and standing building surveys and 77 other interventions. The sizes of the archives vary but include final reports, data tables, site plans and the like.

September 2004 ... Sussex Archaeological Collections Volume 138

Articles from the 2000 edition of this journal are now available for download as pdf files.

August 2004 ... South Yorkshire / North Derbyshire Medieval Ceramics Reference Collection

An on-line database and collection of articles describing ceramics from and specific potteries in South Yorkshire and the northern part of Derbyshire.

July 2004 ... National Museums Liverpool - new sites

Data from three new sites has been added to the National Museums Liverpool archive: Bickerstaffe Glasshouse, Lancashire, Fazakerley, Merseyside and Hancock's Pottery, Flintshire. Text, images and databases from these sites are available for download.

June 2004 ... The Roman Cemetery at Brougham, Cumbria Excavations 1966-67

An archive of data from the 1960's excavations at Brougham in Cumbria

May 2004 ... Imagining Calabria, A GIS approach to Neolithic landscapes

Doortje Van Hove's PhD thesis reinterprets off-site Neolithic land use within southern Calabria, Italy, through synchronic and diachronic GIS approaches.

March 2004 ... English Heritage NMR Excavation Index for England

5715 new records covering the year 2000 have been added to the Excavation Index for England.

March 2004 ... Somerset Historic Environment Record

Over 21,300 records from the Somerset Historic Environment Record have been added to the catalogue. Each catalogue record is linked directly to the full on-line record held at Somerset County Council.

March 2004 ... Environmental Archaeology Bibliography

English Heritage's Environmental Archaeology Bibliography is now available as an online searchable database accessible via the Special Collections and Library areas of our website. The database can be searched both by site and by environmental report.

February 2004 ... Living with the Dead

Martin King's Living with the Dead database documents the treatment, patterning and deposition of human skeletal material in Britain and Ireland from approximately 10000 to 4000 BP. It contains over 630 locations/sites that have been grouped alphabetically. The database has been deposited and archived with the ADS and is available to download. However, a version of the database containing the most up-to-date additions and alterations is available from Martin King's own website.

February 2004 ... Three dimensional modeling of Scottish Early Medieval Sculpted Stones

Stuart Jeffrey's PhD from The University of Glasgow, available in .pdf format, on request investigates the digitisation of the Early Medieval stone sculpture of Scotland through a series of three-dimensional models. Exciting video and "VR" files are also available, accompanying the project.

February 2004 ... A Re-examination of Sheep Bone Density and its Role in Assessing Taphonomic Histories of Zooarchaeological Assemblages

Robert Hayward Symmons' PhD from UCL, available in .pdf format on request , takes a fresh look a sheep bone taphonomy in the context of the Neolithic Catalhoyuk site in Turkey.

February 2004 ... The Idea of Residence in the Neolithic Cotswolds

A PhD about the idea of residence in the Neolithic Cotswolds. The PhD is available to download as a series of .pdf files, via the helpdesk.

[2003]

December 2003 ... The Upper Tisza Project 1991-2004: Studies in Hungarian Landscape Archaeology (info)

The first two sections of this project report have been made available as a series of e-books in the ADS library.

December 2003 ... Surrey Archaeological Collections

Article abstracts and the contents of the microfiche for volume 90 (2003) are available on-line.

December 2003 ... Unpublished Excavation Reports

A new section for unpublished excavation reports has been added to the library section of the catalogue and, at present, eight unpublished reports from Worcestershire County Council Archaeological Services have been uploaded. The intention is that this section will also accommodate any future grey literature submitted through the OASIS form.

December 2003 ... More CBA Research Reports!

A further 11 CBA Research Reports (84, 87-96) are now available from our online library, including Roman towns: the Wheeler inheritance. A review of 50 years research , by Stephen Greep

November 2003 ... Archaeological Collections Areas Map (info)

This resource, provided by the Society for Museum Archaeologists, consists of an interactive map and database of museum collecting areas

October 2003 ... Roman Villas in the North of England (info)

This undergraduate study includes a gazetteer of villa sites in the north of England

October 2003 ... ABMAP Animal Bone Metrical Archive Project

A searchable database of measurements from nearly 25,000 bones of domestic animals and birds dating from the Neolithic onwards.

October 2003 ... The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Scanning Project

The entire run of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Archaeologia Scotica and the Society's monographs have been digitised. Proceedings over five years old, Archaeologia Scotica and out-of-print monographs can now be downloaded as PDF files.

September 2003 ... PhD's online goes LIVE!

The ADS have started accepting PhD theses in digital format for our online library. The first of these to be released is Visual Repertoire, Focusing Activity and the 'Value of Heritage': Using the 'mental library of views' to evoke local place-identity, Britain and Europe by Jonathan Kenny, Lancaster University.

September 2003 ... Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (CISP) (info)

CISP data has been archived by the ADS and we have linked to their searchable database

September 2003 ... More CBA Research Reports

6 further CBA Research Reports (numbers 78-83) are now available from our online library

July 2003 ... First Farmers Project (info)

This digital archive includes site data and photographs from excavations at 4 sites in east-central Scotland where Neolithic settlement was being investigated

July 2003 ... assemblage issue 7

Issue 7 of assemblage mirrored on the ADS site for preservation

June 2003 ... Vernacular Architecture Group: Crucks database (info)

Searchable database of cruck buildings in England and Wales

June 2003 ... Northamptonshire National Mapping Programme (info)

The Project Management Report for this project is now available - the full project archive will follow

June 2003 ... CBA Research Reports

A further 9 CBA Research Reports are now available from our online library

June 2003 ... Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record

Over 9,000 records from the Warwickshire SMR are now available in ArchSearch.

June 2003 ... The Danebury Excavations Digital Archive (info)

Database files and images from the Danebury excavations of 1969 to 1988

April 2003 ... More CBA Research Reports

12 further CBA Research Reports are now available from our online library

March 2003 ... South Gloucestershire SMR reload

An update of South Gloucestershire's Sites and Monuments Record consisting of nearly 7000 records has been reloaded into ArchSearch

January 2003 ... assemblage

The Sheffield graduate journal of archaeology mirrored for preservation

January 2003 ... The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia

30 images from C.S. Drake's book The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia .

January 2003 ... Shropshire Sites & Monuments Record

Nearly 18,000 records from the Shropshire SMR ranging from the Palaeolithic to the 20th Century.

January 2003 ... Christ Church, Spitalfields: investigations of the burial crypt 1984-1986

Unpublished reports, excavation notes and images from the excavations at Christ Church, Spitalfields - the first post-medieval burial vault to have been comprehensively investigated by archaeological methods.

January 2003 ... Purbeck Papers

An accompaniment to David Hinton's Purbeck Papers , examining the archaeology of the Isle of Purbeck. Available are: images, environmental data and the publication's appendices.

January 2003 ... Cataractonium: Roman Catterick and its hinterland. Excavations and research, 1958-1997

An addition to the CBA Research Report archive, maintained by the ADS, examining the excavations at Roman Catterick over the past 50 years.

[2002]

October 2002 ... Data Archive for plant and invertebrate remains from Anglo-Scandinavian 16-22 Coppergate, York

The first element of the University of York Environmental Archaeology Unit digital archive

October 2002 ... 'Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric' by Penny Dransart

An image archive supporting the Routledge publication 'Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: an ethnography and archaeology of Andean camelid herding' by Dr Penny Dransart.

October 2002 ... Scalloway: A Broch, Late Iron Age Settlement and Medieval Cemetery

Digital archive from the 1989-90 excavations at Scalloway, Shetland, undertaken by Dr Niall Sharples.

October 2002 ... Digital archive for a 17th Century clay pipe kiln site in Shropshire

Digital archive made available detailing the 2001 excavations of a clay pipe kiln site near Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, undertaken by Dr David A. Higgins.

October 2002 ... Microfilm index

A further update of the RCHME Index to Microfilmed Archaeological Archives containing over 7,000 records loaded into the catalogue.

September 2002 ... Excavation Index for England - 1999 records

Supplied by English Heritage, a further 5261 records have been added to the Excation Index.

July 2002 ... ArchSearch 2: the new catalogue interface

The release of ArchSearch 2 - the new look ADS catalogue which allows more flexible faster searching as well as the ability to download selected results and much, much more.

July 2002 ... The National Trust SMR

Over 34 000 records for monuments on National Trust properties throughout England and Wales. Records cover all periods from Bronze Age to Modern and a wide variety of monuments and landscape features.

July 2002 ... Lower Palaeolithic technology, raw material and population ecology (info)

This database of Lower Palaeolithic bifaces deposited by Gilbert Marshall is available to search online and contains stone axes from six different countries with illustrations.

June 2002 ... Defence of Britain database (info)

This database of almost 20,000 aspects of the military landscape of 20th Century in Britain is supplied by the CBA and searchable online.

March 2002 ... WYAS geophysics archive (info)

A collection of geophysics reports and data from West Yorkshire Archaeology Service.

January 2002 ... CBA Research Reports

[2001]

The latest batch of reports to be released include the two volumes detailing the excavations of the Iron Age hillfort at Danebury by Professor Barry Cunliffe

December 2001 ... VAG Dendrochronology Database (info)

The Vernacular Architecture Group have supplied an update of their dendro database. It now contains over 1300 entries and added descriptions for the more recent entries.

November 2001 ... South Gloucestershire SMR

Over 6100 records from the South Gloucestershire SMR. A wide ranging data set in terms of both monument types and periods covered.

September 2001... SoA Library Catalogue

After a long absence the library catalogue of the Society of Antiquaries of London is back online with the ADS.

June 2001... CBA Radiocarbon Index Update

The addition of an extra 2500 radiocarbon dates means that the CBA Radiocarbon Index now holds almost 9000 individual radiocarbon dates.

May 2001... The Bibliography of the Vernacular Architecture Group

The contents of volumes III and IV of the Bibliography of the Vernacular Architecture Group implemented as an on-line database. The database contains over 4600 bibliographic references covering over 200 years of publications on architectural history in the British Isles.

May 2001... Dunadd: An early Dalriadic capital

The digital archive of the 1980-81 excavations at Dunadd, a fortified hilltop, important as a royal centre of the early Scots in the kingdom of Dal Riata. One of the most significant archaeological sites in Scotland, and one of the most important early medieval sites in Britain.

May 2001... More CBA Research Reports!

Most volumes up to 49 can now be accessed in our online Library including classics such as the The church in British archaeology

May 2001... Cottam digital archive

The Anglian and Anglo-Scandinavian settlements known as Cottam B (East Yorkshire) were the focus of field walking, geophysical survey, and excavation from 1993-5. The archive is made available as part of an integrated publication with Internet Archaeology (vol 10)

May 2001... Historic Environment Information Resources Network

Developed by the ADS in partnership with the CBA and the NMRs of England, Scotland and Wales, HEIRNET provides an Internet register of Historic Environment Information Resources

April 2001 ... Clickable maps II

Introduction of large scale maps as an interface to ArchSearch, the ADS catalogue, allows users to search very specific geographical areas.

April 2001 ... Excavation Index for England

Supplied by English Heritage, an updated version of this valuable resource is added to the catalogue. Enhancements include full descriptions and bibliographic references.

March 2001 ... Tell Brak/Kilise Tepe archive

This archive represents the raw material of a project designed to collect and analyse data from two Near Eastern excavations, Tell Brak in north-eastern Syria, and Kilise Tepe in southern Turkey. These data were intended to throw light on the use of space within two different urban settlements.

February 2001... Ave Valley Survey Project, Porto, Portugal

The digital archive for a survey carried out in Portugal between 1994-1997, containing database, geophysics and GIS data as well as many images. The archive is associated with the survey report published in Internet Archaeology

January 2001... Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust Sites & Monuments Record

Over 31,000 records from this Regional Sites and Monuments Record covering the unitary authorities of Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham and the eastern part of Conwy, and Powys (including most of the Brecon Beacons National Park).

[2000]

December 2000 ... Fyfield and Overton Down - over 30 years of work by Peter Fowler

The joint publication of monograph and digital archive for the Fyfield and Overton Down Landscape Project by Prof. Peter Fowler - a new venture which extends the concept of the monograph by publishing the supporting digital archive on-line.

November 2000 ... Digital Library

Recent accessions include Digital Archives from Excavation and Fieldwork: Guide to Good Practice 2nd Edition

October 2000 ... Clickable maps!

Introduction of clickable map searching for Britain and Ireland greatly enhances ArchSearch. Select the 'Search' option to the left.

September 2000 ... Northumberland SMR

Nearly 12 000 records referencing the heritage of Northumberland. Covers all periods from prehistoric to modern. Includes extensive bibliographies and notes for many of the archaeological and historical sites of the county.

August 2000 ... A bibliography of Spanish Medieval Ceramics in Spain and the British Isles

Bibliography of important recent work in Spain on pottery, and Iberian pottery found in the British Isles, including material in museum collections, scientific analyses and information on tiles.

July 2000... Soil analysis at a Bronze Age site in the Aegean

British Academy funded micromorphological examination of soils and sediments from a terraced slope at the Early Bronze Age site of Markiani on the Aegean island of Amorgos

July 2000 ... Mesolithic shell midden in Dorset

British Academy funded project looking at the bioarchaeology of a mesolithic shell midden at Culverwell.

June 2000 ... Spatial searching

Map-based searching of ArchSearch introduced enabling searches of geographic areas in Britain and Ireland defined by map references. Click on the 'Search' option to the left

April 2000... Sussex Archaeological Collections

The contents, abstracts and microfiche of the latest volume (137) of SAC is made available through the ArchSearch Library. The full contents have been deposited by the Sussex Archaeological Society for digital archiving.

March 2000... 'Archaeology Dating Service' (info)

The first theme in our revamped Special Collections becomes available. Concerned with scientific dating, it includes a number of on-line searchable databases such as the VAG index of dendrochronology dates, the CBA radiocarbon database and a series of radiocarbon dates assembled as part on an AHRB funded project concerned with the neolithisation of Europe.

March 2000... An On-line Library for Archaeologists

The ADS Library opens for business. Holdings include CBA Research Reports and Occasional Papers. This virtual library contains both archived material and links to remote resources including electronic journals, on-line publications, bibliographic databases and other published material.

March 2000... Prehistoric and Romano-British Kimmeridge Shale

The database of Prehistoric and Romano-British Kimmeridge Shale was constructed by G. T. Denford and catalogues over 3000 artefacts made of Kimmeridge shale.

February 2000... Newham Museum

First of the digital archives rescued from Newham are made available on-line!

January 2000... Ancient Biomolecules Initiative

A selection of NERC funded leaflets describing this initiative.

[1999]

December 1999... Gardens Archaeology Project

Several articles resulting from a Leverhulme Trust funded project written by Christopher Currie and associates.

December 1999... Northern Ireland SMR

Over 14,000 records referencing the archaeology of Northern Ireland. Provided by the Environment and Heritage Service (DoENI).

November 1999... Implement Petrology Database for Britain

Downloadable dataset of some 7,500 records describing petrologically examined stone implements from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. Work of the Implement Petrology Committee of the Council for British Archaeology (CBA).

October 1999... Eynsham Abbey Excavation

Digital archive for the 1989-92 excavations at Eynsham Abbey undertaking by the Oxford Archaeological Unit. Made available as part of the DAPPER project funded by English Heritage.

August 1999... Royal Opera House Excavation Archive

The first instalment of the digital archive from the 1996 MoLAS excavation in Covent Garden made available as part of the DAPPER project funded by English Heritage.

May 1999 ... Greater London SMR

On-line version of the Greater London Sites and Monuments Record using data supplied by English Heritage and containing over 71,000 references to the heritage of the city

April 1999 ... NMRS in its entirity!

Strathclyde, the final NMRS region, loaded. The on-line version of the NMRS now contains over 120,000 records referencing archaeology in Scotland!

April 1999 ... York Archive Gazetteer

Nearly 1,000 records detailing work undertaken by the York Archaeological Trust during the last 27 years!

March 1999 ... Microfilm index

An updated version of the RCHME Index to Microfilmed Archaeological Archives containing over 4,000 records loaded into the catalogue.

March 1999 ... more NMRS

More records detailing the National Monument Records of Scotland loaded including the Central, Lothian, Grampian and Dumfries zones!

February 1999... Excavation Index

The RCHME Excavation Index containing over 50,000 records detailing archaeological investigations in England!

February 1999 ... NMRS

Over 50,000 records from National Monument Records of Scotland for the Borders, Fife, Highlands, Orkney, Shetland, Tayside and the Western Isles now accessible online using ArchSearch

[1998]

December 1998 ... Special Collection

The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (pre 1992) is made available as an ADS Special Collection

December 1998... WoSAS

The West of Scotland Archaeology Service maintains the SMR for eleven Councils in Argyll, the Clyde valley and Ayrshire - The catalogue now contains over 18,000 records referencing this information

December 1998... C14 Index

6,000+ records from the CBA 's Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland are made available through ArchSearch , the ADS online catalogue

December 1998 ... MoLAA

Museum of London Archaeological Archive comprising some 900 records about archaeology in the City of London between 1907-1991 is added to the catalogue

15 September 1998 ... Special Collection

The on-line library catalogue of the Society of Antiquaries of London becomes available for use as an ArcHSearch Special Collection

15 September 1998... Catalogue Launch

Doyenne of British Archaeology, Professor Rosemary Cramp cuts the ribbon to officially launch ArchSearch , the ADS on-line catalogue of archaeological resources. Initial holdings include the NMR's Excavation Index for England , NMRS Records for large areas of Scotland and the RCHME Microfilm Index .

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