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DOI: 10.5284/1000135
title: Land at Hudson's Field, Salisbury, Wiltshire (OASIS id: wessexar1-78197)

description: Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Salisbury City Council to undertake a Watching Brief during enhancement works at Hudson's Field, Salisbury. These works include refurbishment of the entrance road to the public car park, creation of a new access road and creation of new parking spaces. The Site is located 2km north of Salisbury on the A345 road to Amesbury, 750m south of the multi-period hillfort of Old Sarum. The Site is currently under use as recreational playing fields. A study of the archaeological background of the Site indicated the proposed development lies within an area of archaeological significance. However, a recent geophysical survey did not identify any anomalies which of archaeological significance within the survey area. All construction activities which had the potential to expose archaeological remains were subject to monitoring. The ground works were carried out using a 360 degrees tracked mechanical excavator equipped with a flat ditching bucket in order to maximise archaeological visibility. Where archaeological deposits were encountered, excavation was undertaken by hand. Nine features were revealed and excavated. One pit was recorded at the north-eastern end of the access road and a further pit and postholes were recorded at the south-western extremity of the car park. The north eastern pit contained large amounts of burnt flint, the other to the south west contained struck flint and two sherds of late prehistoric pottery. One of the three postholes contained struck flint. Four further possible postholes/pits were excavated and recorded but were interpreted as root hollows or geological features. The work confirmed the findings of the geophysical survey that the Site lies on the periphery of the postulated extents of the Roman town of Old Sarum.
DOI: 10.5284/1000395
title: Assessment of archaeological resource in aggregate areas in the London borough of Havering

description: The project was undertaken by MOLA and London Borough of Havering, with funding from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund administered by English Heritage with the aim of improving knowledge of the archaeological resource in aggregate producing areas of the within the Greater London Borough of Havering. The primary aim of the project was to improve knowledge of the archaeological resource of the aggregate producing areas of Havering in order to provide the appropriate tools to facilitate strategic planning decisions, and the management and preservation of archaeological sites and historic landscapes within those areas. The project was primarily a GIS-based data analysis of available archaeological data; it identified, characterised and digitally mapped, available information on Havering's archaeological resource in areas of past, present and potential future aggregates extraction. This was intended to enhance existing baseline data, to improve archaeological mitigation of future extraction proposals in the borough, and to increase public, industry and other stakeholders' awareness of the archaeology and historic landscapes within the aggregates areas.
DOI: 10.5284/1000397
title: North Sea Palaeolandscape Project

description: North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project (2005 - 2006) sought to utilise existing 3D seismic data to generate information on the Mesolithic Landscape of the North Sea. The North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project utilised a variety of geophysical data sources, in conjunction with more traditional map data to record the Mesolithic landscape of this region. The primary data set (not included in this archive) consisted of the 3D seismic 'Mega-Survey' as compiled by PGS (www.PGS.com) and kindly provided to Birmingham University to assist this research. The project covered approximately 23,000km2 of the Southern North Sea, from the Norfolk coast to the Doggerbank, and represented what is probably one of the largest continuous areas of geophysical data ever used for archaeology. He work concentrated on mapping the upper land-surfaces of the region which related to the Early Mesolithic of Doggerland. 13 distinct landscape zones were observed during the course of this research. These range from marine estuaries and salt marshes, through regions dominated by freshwater river systems and wetlands, to coastal plains and areas of rolling hills. The project has created a variety of resources in addition to the interpretive dataset archive lodged with the ADS. These include two volumes which discuss the results in more detail which have been published by Archaeopress (2007) and in a more popular style by the CBA (2009).
DOI: 10.5284/1000399
title: Conflict in the Pre-industrial Landscape

description: This project set out to ascertain how material evidence for military action and the landscape in which it took place can be better integrated into the investigation and management of the UK's historic environment. The project was planned in two stages. Phase One, upon which this volume reports, was designed as a resource assessment focussing primarily upon battles, involving the preparation of a gazetteer, an assessment of condition and potential with more detailed field examination of a number of representative examples, leading to a report that would include a design for Phase Two. The design of Phase One built on substantial experience already gained in Scotland; its outputs are offered to inform policy and assist management of land use change, the work of HERs, planners, and the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
DOI: 10.5284/1000400
title: Hedingham Ware Pottery Database

description: The main aim of the study was to characterise the medieval pottery industry of the Sible Hedingham area and its output so that its products can be more readily identified at consumer sites, and to increase our knowledge of medieval pottery in Essex and East Anglia. The aim was also to place the industry in its geographical setting both in terms of the siting of the kilns and in the distribution and marketing of its products. It was also felt important to examine the origins and affinities of this ware and shed light on its demise.
DOI: 10.5284/1000403
title: Camel Estuary Wreck

description: This project presents the results of the emergency recording and undesignated site assessment of the possible wreck of the barque Antoinette, Camel Estuary, Padstow, Cornwall carried out by Historic Environment, Cornwall Council and maritime archaeologist Kevin Camidge for English Heritage in 2010. The wreck had been exposed early in 2010 by shifting sands upon Town Bar at the entrance to the Camel Estuary, which is sited close to a navigational channel (NGR centred at SW 92650 75380). The Padstow Harbour Master proposed to remove the wreck as a hazard to shipping in the week commencing 1 March 2010; given the size of the remains, the use of explosives was proposed, along with the possibility of dismantling the wreck with a dredger-mounted crane and barge. Emergency recording of the wreck was therefore carried out on 28 February and a watching brief undertaken during demolition when some of the vessel's timbers were recovered and recorded.
DOI: 10.5284/1000408
title: Welton-le-Wold, Lincolnshire: An understanding of the Ice Age

description: The village of Welton-le-Wold is located approximately 6 km west of Louth in the district of East Lindsey, Lincolnshire. The sands and gravels that fill the valley were deposited during the Pleistocene and are buried beneath glacial tills (between 4m and 13m thick), and were extensively quarried from the late 19th century until the mid 1970's. Between 1969 and 1972, Professor Alan Straw and the then schoolboy, Christopher Alabaster collected three hand axes, a retouched flake and the fossilised remains of elephant, red deer, probable Irish giant deer and horse. They came from a 1.5m to 2m vertical zone which was 3.25m to 4.25m below the base of the glacial till in upper Welton gravels, across approximately 30m of the active western quarry face in Welton-le-Wold. It was, (and still is), so rare for Palaeolithic artefacts to be found unequivocally stratified beneath glacial till that publication of the assemblage and its Pleistocene context, swiftly followed; in 1976 by Alabaster and Straw in Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society and then in 1977 by Wymer and Straw in Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society . The completeness of the glacial sequence, and the potential of the site to resolve critical questions of chronology in regional Pleistocene studies make Welton-le-Wold one of the most important quaternary geological sites in the East Midlands.
DOI: 10.5284/1000315
title: England's Historic Seascapes: Solent and Isle of Wight

description: The England's Historic Seascapes: Solent and Isle of Wight project was undertaken by the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology (HWTMA), Bournemouth University and Southampton University. This coastal and marine area is diverse and dynamic, it includes the coastal area of the Solent, and Isle of Wight, (approximately a 150 mile stretch of coastline). The project is one of four pilot projects designed to apply the principles of HLC (Historic Landscape Characterisation) to the marine environment. This project built upon the intial methodology developed for the Liverpool Bay pilot study and seeks to develop MHLC (Marine Historic Landscape Characterisation) to ensure the final methodology is suitable to apply nationally. The project was funded by the Marine Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund as rebursed by English Heritage.
DOI: 10.5284/1000341
title: Bibliography of the Vernacular Architecture Group

description: The Vernacular Architecture Group has been periodically publishing a bibliography since 1972. Volumes III and IV (1992 and 1999 respectively) were compiled digitally and submitted to the Archaeology Data Service for archiving and dissemination. These records have been compiled into an on-line database which may be browsed or searched by keyword, author and location.
DOI: 10.5284/1000368
title: Assessing The Research Potential of Grey Literature in the study of Roman England

description: Since the adoption of Planning Policy Guidance Note 16 (Archaeology and Planning) in 1990, around 90% of all archaeological work in England has been prompted by the planning process. The product of this work is the ubiquitous typescript report, commonly referred to as the "grey literature" of archaeology. This term reflects the fact that whilst developer-funded typescript reports are well-used through the planning process, the results of this work are predominantly unpublished and commonly not known to the wider archaeological community. This is largely due to the vast size of the resource, and the difficulties in accessing it (although this is being addressed in many ways, such as the online OASIS forum). The need to make the results of this work readily available to both local communities and those with a more specialized interest in the past is recognized as a priority by English Heritage. The Roman Grey Literature Project was developed between Cotswold Archaeology and Reading University as a way to assess the research potential for the Roman period which may currently be hidden within the grey literature. It follows a separate piece of research recently carried out by Richard Bradley of Reading University which highlighted the strong research potential within the grey literature for the prehistoric period.
DOI: 10.5284/1000416
title: England's Past for Everyone: Historic Environment Research

description: In 2005 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded £3,374,000 to increase access to the resources of the local history research centre, the Victoria County History (VCH), based at the Institute of Historical Research. VCH staff worked closely with local volunteers on projects to produce high quality local history research and to make this information more readily available to a wide audience, including researchers, school children, visitors and local history enthusiasts. Historic environment analysis was conducted by a wide range of organisations and individual experts, including county archaeologists, buildings consultants and archaeological contract units often involving the adoption of multi-disciplinary methodologies. The reports and photographic surveys produced as part of this project are available to browse and download on-line.
DOI: 10.5284/1000418
title: Assessing The Research Potential of Grey Literature in the study of Roman England

description: Since the adoption of Planning Policy Guidance Note 16 (Archaeology and Planning) in 1990, around 90% of all archaeological work in England has been prompted by the planning process. The product of this work is the ubiquitous typescript report, commonly referred to as the "grey literature" of archaeology. This term reflects the fact that whilst developer-funded typescript reports are well-used through the planning process, the results of this work are predominantly unpublished and commonly not known to the wider archaeological community. This is largely due to the vast size of the resource, and the difficulties in accessing it (although this is being addressed in many ways, such as the online OASIS forum). The need to make the results of this work readily available to both local communities and those with a more specialized interest in the past is recognized as a priority by English Heritage. The Roman Grey Literature Project was developed between Cotswold Archaeology and Reading University as a way to assess the research potential for the Roman period which may currently be hidden within the grey literature. It follows a separate piece of research recently carried out by Richard Bradley of Reading University which highlighted the strong research potential within the grey literature for the prehistoric period.
DOI: 10.5284/1000353
title: Cruck database

description: This database was originally created (as 80 column cards) by N W Alcock as a Vernacular Architecture Group project, with the collaboration of many members of the group. It was used to generate the published catalogues of cruck buildings in Cruck Construction: an Introduction and Catalogue CBA Research Report 42 (1981) and its predecessor, A Catalogue of Cruck Buildings (Phillimore for Vernacular Architecture Group, 1973).
DOI: 10.5284/1000392
title: Wellington Quarry

description: This post-excavation project undertaken by Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service was commissioned by English Heritage through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund to bring to publication the results of 10 years of work at Wellington Quarry in Herefordshire. Between 1986 and 1996, a small team working in advance of sand and gravel extraction recorded significant archaeological deposits scattered across an area of more than 37 hectares of farmland. Although the quarry company, Redland Aggregates (now Lafarge Aggregates), voluntarily supported the costs of the fieldwork and some preliminary reporting, it has only been through ALSF support that it has been possible to bring this work to publication. During these 10 years a regionally unique archaeological and palaeoenvironmental sequence was recorded covering nearly 8000 years of interrelated human activity and landscape change in the Lower Lugg Valley. Starting with use by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, the heavily wooded floodplain witnessed periods of sporadic occupation and activity throughout early prehistory. A mid 4th millennium BC pit group provided a detailed insight into a wide range of seasonally based activities, while later funerary deposits included a wealthy Beaker burial. From the start of the 2nd millennium BC, an increasingly open and cleared landscape existed beyond the floodplain, on which activity was evidenced by occasional finds from former watercourses. Ritual deposition of human remains and artefacts in the later prehistoric period included a rare Iron Age double inhumation, though by this time a more settled and farmed landscape had emerged. By the 2nd century AD, a streamside settlement had been established. Expansion and intensification of this settlement led to the construction, by the 4th century, of one or more well-appointed stone buildings indicating that at least some of the inhabitants lived a highly Romanised lifestyle, rare on rural sites in this region. The settlement was abandoned by the late 4th to early 5th century but, until at least the 12th to 14th centuries, arable cultivation continued. During the post-medieval period there was a shift towards an enclosed landscape of pasture and meadow, a pattern maintained until the onset of mineral extraction in the 1980s.
DOI: 10.5284/1000394
title: Creswell Crags Limestone Heritage Area Management Action Plan

description: The aim was to create an integrated archaeological, palaeontological, ecological and access Management Action Plan for the main limestone vales and gorges within the Creswell Crags Limestone Heritage Area (the southern Magnesian Limestone Natural Area). The plan formed the second stage of a three stage programme that will result in major improvements to cultural and natural heritage conservation and access across the limestone landscape.
DOI: 10.5284/1000398
title: West Coast Palaeolandscape Project (Pilot Project)

description: The West Coast Palaeolandscapes Project builds upon the results of comparative work carried out within the Southern North Sea as part of the North Sea Palaeolandscape Project (NSPP). The results of that project, and the associated data audit variation, suggested that several other areas existed within the UK where sufficient data could support similar work. The west coast of Britain was identified as one area where any information derived on existing palaeolandscapes would have a significant impact on our understanding of the Mesolithic and, potentially, the Palaeolithic in England and Wales, whilst also informing the archaeological records of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.
DOI: 10.5284/1000412
title: 20-26 College Street, Southampton (OASIS ID thamesva1-40314)

description: The site is located within the urban environment of Southampton city (Fig. 1). It occupies roughly 0.25ha at the junctions of College Street and Richmond Street with Three Field Lane. To the north of the site, urban development which stretches for some 5km. To the east of the site flows the River Itchen, south is the River Test and the Town Quay, the west is Lansdowne Hill and docks. The site formerly consisted of three buildings fronting both College Street and Richmond Street. The evaluation has revealed just one feature of possible archaeological interest. The earliest feature on the site was a ditch terminal identified in trench 2 The fills within this feature were very different from the overlying deposits but no finds were recovered from it. It was sealed by layer 56, which contained finds possibly as early as the 18th century. However, when cartographic sources are consulted, it seems more probable that this layer relates to land reclamation and development that took place from the mid 19th century onwards. Other deposits and features on the site date from this 19th century and later development. On the basis of these results, the archaeological potential of the site is considered to be low.
DOI: 10.5284/1000422
title: Historic Seascape Characterisation: The Irish Sea (English sector)

description: The project comprises a GIS-based historic seascape characterisation (HSC) of the English sector of the Irish Sea. HSC is guided by the same principles as Historic Landscape Characterisation, and is intended to inform coastal and marine management and planning, with particular reference to the role of English Heritage and its statutory responsibilities. The project will contribute to developing an understanding of the historic character of the marine zone in the North West of England. The project area stretches from the Anglo-Welsh national boundary in the south to the Anglo-Scottish border in the north. Its landward boundary reaches to at least the Mean High Water Mark as well as inland areas which are perceived to have a maritime character. Seaward, the boundary is marked by the limit of UK Controlled Waters
DOI: 10.5284/1000425
title: Essex Aggregates Archaeology Resource Assessment

description: This report provides the results of an assessment of the archaeological resource threatened by the extraction of aggregate minerals within Essex. The assessment was carried out between April 2010 and February 2011 by the Historic Environment Branch of Essex County Council. The assessment comprised a range of projects located within the historic aggregate areas of the County.
DOI: 10.5284/1000417
title: Bibliography of the Vernacular Architecture Group

description: The Vernacular Architecture Group has been periodically publishing a bibliography since 1972. Volumes III and IV (1992 and 1999 respectively) were compiled digitally and submitted to the Archaeology Data Service for archiving and dissemination. These records have been compiled into an on-line database which may be browsed or searched by keyword, author and location.
DOI: 10.5284/1000419
title: Parts and Wholes: object categorisation and fragmentation in prehistoric context

description: The 'Parts and Wholes' project is concerned with the relationship between complete objects and their fragments. The primary premise of the book can be concisely stated: deliberate object fragmentation was commonplace in the past, with widespread re-use of the ensuing fragments in an extended life 'after the break'. It has been the contention of much recent research that deliberate fragmentation is a fundamental feature of not only later Balkan prehistory but also of communities living in many other times/places. The evidence for deliberate fragmentation is increasing each year, both at the level of inter-site data and intra-site data, such that the social practice can no longer be ignored by anyone seriously interested in material culture.
DOI: 10.5284/1000423
title: Cruck database

description: This database was originally created (as 80 column cards) by N W Alcock as a Vernacular Architecture Group project, with the collaboration of many members of the group. It was used to generate the published catalogues of cruck buildings in Cruck Construction: an Introduction and Catalogue CBA Research Report 42 (1981) and its predecessor, A Catalogue of Cruck Buildings (Phillimore for Vernacular Architecture Group, 1973).
DOI: 10.6073/pasta/dd0dec78c9c2884fa8e65f34df38c66d
title: Jornada Basin LTER Cross-scale Interactions Study (CSIS) Block 4 meteorological station: Daily average soil volumetric water content data: 2013 - ongoing

description: Daily Average of 30-minute Soil Volumetric Water Content data at 10 cm at CSIS Block-4. Collection of soil water content data at Jornada LTER Cross-scale Interactions Study (CSIS) blocks, New Mexico, supports the environmental monitoring objectives of the Jornada LTER monitoring program that look at plant-soil water dynamics. Soil volumetric water content is measured every 30 minutes at 10 cm depth at 3 locations at each of the 4 plots per block and averaged for the daily value. The locations in each plot are under bare soil, under perennial grass, and under shrub. Volumetric water content, bulk electrical conductivity, soil temperature, and bulk dielectric permittivity are recorded at an automated meteorological station installed at Jornada LTER CSIS Block-4 site. This is an ONGOING dataset.
DOI: 10.5284/1011173
title: Bedfordshire Aggregates Archaeological Resource Assessment

description: To improve knowledge of the archaeological resource of the aggregate producing areas of the historic county of Bedfordshire thereby providing the appropriate tools to facilitate decisions regarding strategic planning, management and preservation of archaeological sites and historic landscapes within those areas. It will also increase public, industry and other stakeholders' awareness of the archaeology and historic landscapes within the aggregate areas.