News & events

It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp, who has died at the age of 93. Amongst her many…

Historic England and the ADS are excited to announce the initial launch of the Unpath’d Waters portal. This portal allows users to, for the first time,…

We are excited to announce that we are recruiting a post at the ADS for a Digital Archives Assistant! This is an excellent opportunity to start…

This week some of the staff at the ADS will travel to Nottingham to attend the Chartered Institute of Archaeologists Annual Conference. This year the theme…

We are excited to announce the next seminar of the Transforming data rE-use in ARCHaeology (TEtrARCHs) project. Dr James Taylor from the University of York, UK,…

This March, some of the ADS team of CATS (Curatorial and Technical Staff) undertook a focused week of accessioning, processing, disseminating and releasing digital archives that…

This week a large group of staff here at the ADS will travel to Amsterdam to attend the Computer Applications and Quantitative Method in Archaeology (CAA)…

The Silverband Mine Brake House and Aerial Ropeway present an unusually well preserved example of mining history set within a rugged Cumbrian landscape. Natural England Moor…

Recently the OASIS system, the online system for reporting archaeological investigations and linking research outputs and archives, has been migrated to a new version. Since January…

An unusual photographic survey archive was released on the ADS website in February 2023 which features a large mural depicting the sad love story of the…