The Bosworth Battlefield Project: Overview

The Bosworth Battlefield Project

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Dr Glenn Foard
Reader in Battlefield Archaeology
Music, Humanities and Media
University of Huddersfield
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HD1 3DH
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The Battlefields Trust (2013) The Bosworth Battlefield Project [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1019859

Overview

The digital archive comprises the following reports:

Foard, G. 2005: Bosworth Battlefield. A Reassessment
Bosworth Battlefield Survey Small Finds report (with finds illustrations)
Masters, P. 2008: Geophysical Survey at Bosworth Battlefield, Shenton, Leicestershire
Partida, T. and Foard, G. 2009: Bosworth Battlefield Survey: Post Medieval Historic Mapping Report
Page, 2006: Report on the documentary sources for the reconstruction of the historic landscape of Bosworth battlefield
Curry, A. and Dickinson, J. (with contributions by Professor John McGavin and Michael Bletzer): Report on Military history for the Bosworth Battlefield Association
Hall, D. 2007: Survey of the open-fields for the Bosworth Battlefield Survey (with an addendum on documentary evidence)
Gearey, B., Hill, T., Howard, A. and Marshall, P. 2008: Bosworth Fields, Leicestershire: Palaeoenvironmental Survey and Assessment
Wheeler, J and Swindles, G. 2009: Finding Bosworth Field A multiproxy stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental assessment of lowland sediments from the proposed site of Bosworth Battlefield, Leicestershire
Cox, B. 2009: Bosworth battlefield: Notes on Associated Toponyms
Transcripts and translations of the primary sources relating to the battle of Bosworth
Foard, G. 2005: Bosworth Battlefield Investigation Project Design
Burton, R. 2006: Bosworth Field Investigation Soil Survey Report
Burton, R. 2009: Bosworth Field Investigation Additional Soil Survey Reports 2007 & 2008 & 2009

In addition, the digital archive also includes a number of GIS files used in the project analyses:

Enclosed_landscape - Historic Landscape units post enclosure
Enclosed_land_use - Compilation of land use data from 1843 - 2007; Tithe maps 1843 - 1849; The Land Utilisation Survey of Britain (1931 - 1935; David Hall survey October 2005 - February 2006 and March 2007
Open_field_land_use - Compilation of medieval land use units: open field extent; open field pasture; meadow; heath or open field; settlement; destroyed; furlong conjectural
Open_field_landscape - Compilation of medieval landscape features: furlong (ridge & furrow strips); slade; headland interpolated; headland earthwork
Historic_administrative_unit - Historic units of administration
Master_Bos_finds_data - Compilation of all finds data
Master_detecting_day_areas - Compilation of all survey areas