Post-medieval archaeology

Description of, and comments on, the UK government's Heritage White Paper.

article discussing the influence of sectarianism and of nationalist sentiments on the development of post-medieval archaeology in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland

article on the excavation of a 1991 Ford Transit van, and the questions of methodology and technique that were raised as a result; includes

article on the excavation of slum tenement dwellings and converted industrial buildings in Atherstone, plotting the decline of working-class housing and industry within a small market town in the Midlands

article on the excavation of the Bow porcelain manufactory at Stratford, one of the most prolific porcelain factories of the eighteenth centuries

on a project focusing on the domestic and residential aspects of the Industrial Revolution through the excavation of a group of workers' cottages built in the late-seventeenth or eighteenth century and occupied until after World War II

article on the excavation and recording of two sites of widely different natures using historical research combined with archaeological fieldwork -- MS Factory Valley at Rhydymwyn, north Wales, a purpose-built chemical weapons facility from the mid-twentieth century, and Aston Hall, Birmingham, a seventeenth-century great house, of which particular attention was paid to the service areas

on a programme of survey and excavation on Harris in the Outer Hebrides, which, as well as uncovering important prehistoric archaeology, revealed a range of post-medieval evidence including blackhouses, shielings and a possible drying kiln or distillery

on excavations at the site of the former Cattle Market in Bury St Edmunds, involving detailed examination of a purpose-built nineteenth-century cattle market and several seventeenth- to twentieth-century street frontage properties

on the archaeological recording, conservation and interpretation of a complex of water-powered cotton mills dating from the early-eighteenth century until their closure in 1989