This collection from the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies (BILNAS) contains digitised correspondence, field notes, drawings, publication drafts, reports, and photographs pertaining to excavations directed by Dame Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward Perkins at Sabratha, Tripolitania from 1948 to 1951. With the exception of a small number of photographs of Lepcis Magna, the entire collection pertains to Sabratha.

The material within the collection relates to sites such as the Forum, the East Forum Temple, the Capitolium, the Basilica/Church and Temple of Serapis, the Insulae, the Severan Monument, the Theatre, the Byzantine Defences and the Harbour, as well as other pottery finds from Sabratha.

The collection also contains material relating to "Excavations at Sabratha, 1949 - 1951", a publication written by Philip Kenrick based on the excavations led by Kenyon and Ward Perkins. The monograph was published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies for the Society for Libyan Studies, Gloucester in 1986.

Also present are notes and drawings relating to the Sabratha Finds Project, which was carried out in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1986 to c1989. As both the project and publication made extensive use of the original excavation records before they became part of the Society for Libyan Studies Archive, their documents have been maintained within the BILNAS collection.