Archive from the 1972-73 rescue excavation at Redhill Roman fort (Uxacona) in Shropshire carried out by David Browne
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Introduction
Details are provided here of a project aimed at disseminating more widely the archive from the 1972–73 rescue excavations carried out by David Browne. Only limited post-excavation had been carried out on the site archive (Shropshire museums accession reference E.00802), though a summary of the results was published in the 2002 volume of the Shropshire Transactions. Following fresh fieldwork on an adjacent site in 2011–13, an audit of the 1972–73 archive was carried out by Worcestershire Archaeology in 2014–15 (with Historic England support) in order:
- a) to establish the completeness of the 1972–73 excavation archive and its potential
- b) to examine how best to link the 1972–73 fieldwork results with those from the 2011–13 fieldwork
- c) to secure the future of the rescue archaeology archive by its formal deposition and making it more widely accessible
- d) to develop a better understanding of the entire site, and so enable its better management, including of the scheduled area, for the future.
The digital resource, which may be accessed from this website, includes the following:
- an introduction to the site
- list of archive contents being made available
- excavation archive comprising copies of notebooks, site and finds drawings and photographs, all with appropriate catalogues as available
This work was funded by Historic England and was managed by Derek Hurst. Work on the archive was mainly done by Andrew Mann and Jane Evans (Worcestershire Archaeology) during 2014–15, when the audit was carried out, and during 2017, when the digitisation of the archive was undertaken, mainly by WAAS Digital (John France) and Nina O'Hare (Worcestershire Archaeology). David Browne contributed greatly to making this all possible by having so carefully curated the fieldwork record and finds for many years in a private capacity.
