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DOI: 10.5284/1000247
title: The Hazardous Project

description: Warship Hazardous sank in a storm north east of the Isle of Wight in November 1706. The wreck was discovered in 1977 approximately 800 metres south-east of Bracklesham Bay slipway, West Sussex, and the site has been under archaeological investigation by the 308 Sub-Aqua Association for over twenty years. The Hampshire & Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology have deposited a selection of the digital archive resulting from these investigations with the Archaeological Data Service. This material consists of: data tables detailing the contents of the archive; reports on the archive and of recommendations on the care and stabilisation of the artefacts recovered from Hazardous written by Mary Rose Archaeological Services; and a selection of digitised photographs of the wreck and of recovered artefacts.
DOI: 10.5284/1000253
title: Guildford Castle Excavations

description: Excavations at Guildford Castle between 1990 and 1994 revealed evidence for the development of the castle and palace during the medieval period. The work was carried out by volunteers under the direction of Rob Poulton and staff from the Surrey County Archaeological Unit. The results are presented in full and the opportunity is also taken to publish the results of all other 20th century work in the castle precinct in as much detail as has proved practical or has been available.
DOI: 10.5284/1000257
title: Extensive Urban Survey - Northamptonshire

description: The EUS for Northamptonshire has been funded by English Heritage as part of its national programme intended to tackle the lack of archaeological work on small towns. It is hoped that these reports will remedy the lack of adequate information and research agenda faced by those responsible for ensuring the effective preservation, evaluation and recording of elements of the urban environment threatened by development processes. It is also intended to provide English Heritage with guidance as to what resources may be worthy of statutory protection through Scheduling or Listing, and assist the District and Borough Councils of Northamptonshire in the definition of Conservation Areas. The survey encompasses all known nucleated settlements in the county from the Roman to the modern period, with the notable exception of Northampton which is the subject of a separate Intensive Urban Survey project. The additional potential of the Extensive Urban Survey project to contribute to wider initiatives concerned with improving the appreciation and understanding of the historic urban environment of the county has also been recognised.
DOI: 10.5284/1011847
title: Historic Seascape Characterisation: Hastings to Purbeck and Adjacent Waters

description: The Hastings to Purbeck and Adjacent Waters Project is one of the four projects commissioned to implement the HSC National Method across a range of areas in English waters. The project successfully extends the implementation of the national HSC Method, across a substantial area of England's coasts, seas and adjacent UK Controlled Waters. The worked example provided by this project builds on the consolidation and initial implementation of the national HSC Method.
DOI: 10.5284/1011848
title: Oxfordshire Aggregates and Archaeology Assessment

description: This project quantified and reviewed the archaeological potential of the aggregate areas in Oxfordshire in order to provide an assessment of the threat to the archaeological resource from future aggregate extraction. This enabled discussion of suitable management and mitigation strategies, based on robust data and research frameworks. The project was funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund and managed by English Heritage.
DOI: 10.5284/1000242
title: South Yorkshire / North Derbyshire Medieval Ceramics Reference Collection

description: The South Yorkshire and north Derbyshire regional medieval ceramics reference collection is one of the results of the review of medieval pottery studies in England undertaken by Maureen Mellor on behalf of the Medieval Pottery Research Group and English Heritage in the early 1990s (Mellor 1994). The project was funded by English Heritage, managed by Archaeological Services (WYAS) and undertaken by Dr Chris Cumberpatch, with assistance from Dr. D. Williams, Dr. N. Walsh and Dr. M. Hughes. Assistance was given by museum and archaeological curators across the region, by the Derbyshire Archaeological Society and the Rotherham Archaeological Society and by a number of archaeological units and contractors working in the region.
DOI: 10.5284/1000252
title: The Early Medieval Monastic Cemetery at Llandough, Glamorgan

description: In 1994 an archaeological excavation adjacent to the church of St. Dochdwy at Llandough near Cardiff revealed a major cemetery of 1026 burials. Radiocarbon dating showed the burials to date from the 5th or 6th centuries AD to the 10th or early 11th century. It was considered important that a detailed catalogue of all burials should be made widely available to facilitate future analysis. This has been achieved by means of an on-line database of over 800 burials. The database is also linked to an interactive site plan or GIS interface and the results of searches can be plotted from query results to see different distributions of grave types. Alternatively, the on-line GIS can itself be used to query, view and explore the burials data directly. The GIS files (in ESRI shapefile format) may be downloaded and used in an independent GIS package. The Llandough Cemetery Archive also contains an extensive introduction to the history of the excavation and associated publications as well as an overview of the database structure and fields.
DOI: 10.5284/1000258
title: Stonehenge 20th Century Excavations Databases

description: Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by English Heritage to produce a comprehensive report on the twentieth-century excavations at Stonehenge, as a result of which the Wessex Archaeology Stonehenge Archive was compiled. The archive contains written material (primary, secondary, original, and copied), drawings, photographs, and some finds. These relate to a large number of excavations and non-archaeological interventions undertaken in and around the Stonehenge Triangle between 1901 and 1994. The results of the project were published as Stonehenge in its landscape: twentieth century excavations, Cleal RMJ, Walker KE and Montague R, 1995 English Heritage Archaeological Report 10. The archive, including copies of the databases (on paper and CD), is held at Salisbury Museum, which also holds the majority of the finds and some original archive material.
DOI: 10.5284/1000259
title: The Silchester Project: Roman Town Insula IX The Development of an Urban Property c. AD 40-50 - c. AD 250

description: The Roman city of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, Hampshire) was subjected to an extensive programme of excavations by the Society of Antiquaries of London between 1890 and 1909. In 1997 a new programme of excavations began on part of insula ix with the aim of exploring the full sequence of occupation from the late Iron Age through to post-Roman abandonment. It rapidly emerged that House 1 had a complex history of development with abandonment and demolition in the mid 3rd century AD. This archive contains the downloadable data needed to further explore the conclusions reache din the accompanying Internet Archaeology article, including Appendices and Specialist Reports, Database tables, Images, Context Plans and Matrices. The archived database can also be queried online, where information can be found on Contexts, Objects and Finds.This digital archive was undertaken in conjunction with an electronic publication through the Linking Electronic Archives and Publications (LEAP) project. The corresponding article is 'Silchester Roman Town Insula IX: The Development of an Urban Property c. AD 40-50 - c. AD 250' by Amanda Clarke, Mike Fulford, Mike Rains and Klare Tootell, which can be found in Internet Archaeology 21.
DOI: 10.5284/1000262
title: Charlestown Shipwreck and Heritage Centre

description: The Charlestown Shipwreck and Heritage Centre is located in the small harbour of Charlestown, near St Austell in Cornwall. It is a privately owned maritime museum housing many objects recovered from historic shipwrecks. The objects on display range in date from the 16th century ot the present day. The main aim of this project is the recording of objects in the Charlestown Shipwreck and Heritage Centre originating from wrecks currently protected under the Protection of Wrecks act 1973 (PWA). The record includes a finds database, a provenance record detailing how the objects ended up in the museum and a detailed photographic record of the objects.
DOI: 10.5284/1000263
title: Iron Age and Roman Coins from Wales

description: This comprehensive database of ancient coins discovered in modern Wales has been created by researchers from Cardiff School of History & Archaeology with funding from the Board of Celtic Studies. The primary objectives of the project were to create an inventory of ancient coins from Wales and to disseminate this body of information to as wide an audience as possible. The dataset currently includes details of 52,813 coins (the vast majority of which are Roman) from 1172 separate finds (these include excavated assemblages, hoards, single finds and indeterminate groups of coins). Using this dataset, it is possible to study ancient coins from Wales by region, locality, ancient settlement or archaeological excavation, and individual coins can be analysed by metal, denomination, emperor or ruler, mint, date of production, and a number of other numismatic criteria.
DOI: 10.5284/1000248
title: Breaking Through Rock Art Recording: 3D laser scanning of megalithic rock art

description: This project tests the technique of 3D laser scanning for the recording of prehistoric rock carvings. The main objectives are to assess the reliability, accuracy and precision of this technique for recording purposes and to evaluate its capacity to discover new carved motifs invisible to the naked eye. This project looked at Castlerigg Stone Circle in Cumbria as well as Long Meg and Copt Howe in Cumbria and Horseshoe Rock in Northumberland. Data available within this archive includes raw laser scanning data, decimated xyz data, xyz data with head and tail added for viewing in Paraview as point cloud data and processed through Tight Cocone (a triangulation program) to produce solid models for viewing in Paraview. Image files of these models have also been created as screen shots from Paraview.
DOI: 10.5284/1000274
title: Salmonsbury Camp, Greystones Farm, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire: Salmonsbury Camp Scheduled Monument Interpretation Project

description: The digital archive for Salmonsbury Camp contains scanned copies of the interpretation panels and paper leaflet produced by the project.
DOI: 10.5284/1000277
title: England's Historic Seascapes: Southwold to Clacton

description: The England's Historic Seascapes: Southwold to Clacton project was undertaken by Oxford Archaeology between April 2006 and 2007. 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 mehtodology is suitable to apply nationally. The project was funded by the Marine Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund as rebursed by English Heritage.
DOI: 10.5284/1000287
title: Extensive Urban Survey - Gloucestershire

description: The extensive urban surveys were designed as tripartite projects to include: the enhancement of the county Sites and Monuments Record (SMR), in order to provide a comprehensive database for each settlement, the preparation of assessment reports which would summarise the state of archaeological knowledge for each settlement and the design of a strategy for the management of the archaeology of each town to be implemented mainly through the planning system. The database is now held as part of the Gloucestershire SMR, while the assessment and strategy reports each take the form of separate volumes covering the administrative districts of Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Stroud and Tewkesbury. All three phases of the projects were based on the use of secondary, published sources, involved no fieldwork and were tightly constrained by the available resources.
DOI: 10.5284/1000305
title: Excavation at Bantham, South Devon and Post-Roman trade in south-west England

description: Excavation at Bantham Ham in 2001 examined occupation which yielded radiocarbon dates centring on the late 5th and early 6th centuries. Despite the limited area of exposure, a major and unusually well-preserved assemblage of post-Roman Mediterranean amphorae was recovered. Study of well-preserved bone, shell, charcoal and charred plant macrofossils allows consideration of aspects of the economy and environment of the site. A report on the excavations, incorporating summaries of the specialist reports, will be published in the journal Medieval Archaeology. The full texts of the specialist reports are offered here.
DOI: 10.5284/1000307
title: BMAPA Protocol for reporting finds of archaeological interest

description: The BMAPA ALSF funded project archive comprises Protocol documentation distributed to wharves and vessels operated by BMAPA companies. The documentation includes the full text of the Protocol, and Notes for site champios. The documentation also includes a poster (PDF).
DOI: 10.5284/1000308
title: Assessment of Archaeology within Marine Aggregate

description: This project investigates how archaeology is considered within Environmental Statements (ESs) submitted for marine aggregate dredging licences. The study considered a selection of ESs dating from across the period for which thei production has been required in support of licence applications before focussing on ESs submitted since 1998, when the application procedure underwent major changes. The review uses key legislation and guidance from the last two decades as measures for best practice.
DOI: 10.5284/1000234
title: HMJ Underhill Archive

description: This project began in September 2001 with the re-discovery of an old archive in the Institute of Archaeology (Oxford University). The archive consists of a collection of hand-painted glass (lantern) slides that depicted the "Megalithic Monuments of Great Britain," dating to 1897-5 and attributed to H.M.J. Underhill. The slides showed the stone circles at Stonehenge, Avebury, Stanton Drew and the Rollright Stones. Miscellaneous slides depicted other prehistoric monuments: Menhir at Dartmoor and the Sarsen Stones and Wayland's Smithy on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway. Since September 2001, more lantern slides in the Institute's collections have been attributed to Underhill on different subjects: Romano-British city remains (Bath, Colchester, Silchester and Wroxeter) and the vernacular architecture of windmills. The researchers, Megan Price and Deborah Harlan, used primary sources in the Bodleian Library Modern Manuscripts Collection and the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies to uncover much biographical information on Henry Michael John Underhill. We have also located further archives in the United Kingdom that hold Underhill material. The Underhill archive consists of 78 hand-painted glass slides and 17 photographic glass lantern slides. Each slide measures 3.25 inches square.
DOI: 10.5284/1000301
title: Enhancing our Understanding: Identifying Shipwrecks of Historic Importance lying within Deposits of Marine Aggregate

description: The Identifying Shipwrecks of Historic Importance project was undertaken by staff of Bournemouth University and was funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustanability Fund as rebursed by English Heritage. The project builds on the framework developed during the earlier On the Importance of Shipwrecks ALSF project undertaken by Wessex Archaeology. Furthermore, it tests this framework by applying it to wrecks within the National Monuments Record (NMR) using historical sources to identifying archaeologically important sites, particularly within aggregate extraction areas, from amongst the wealth of wreck sites that exist within English territorial waters. This enhanced understanding of the significance of the shipwreck resource will allow regulators, advisors and industry to make informed decisions about how to best manage and mitigate for any impact on sites that lie within aggregate extraction areas
DOI: 10.5284/1000310
title: Nidderdale AONB Archaeological Survey Archiving Project

description: In 1999, Lancaster University Archaeological Unit were commissioned by North Yorkshire County Council, in conjunction with the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Project, to undertake an archaeological survey of part of the Nidderdale AONB. The aim of this survey was to concord various datasets which had been produced by previous work; to verify and record existing features, and to identify any further features within the area. The overarching aim of the survey was to help inform management of the Historic Environment within the AONB. A rapid walk-over survey was undertaken across four sample areas, which were chosen to give coverage across the AONB in representative sections. Of the 603 square kilometres within the AONB, the sample areas covered an estimated third (c200km2). The results were processed using a digital database and GIS mapping of the survey results. The dataset comprises the report produced, as well as the Database and GIS files produced by the survey; and various associated digital Image files of photos and sketches.
DOI: 10.5284/1000313
title: On the Importance of Shipwrecks

description: On the Importance of Shipwrecks is An Aggregates Levy Sustainability Project (ALSF) as rebursed by English Heritage. The project has developed a framework and methodology for evaluating the importance of physical remains of wrecks on the seabed in the context of the Environmental Impact Assessment. The project included as literature review, consultation with key practitioners and the development of a draft framework, trials of the framework on sub-sets of wreck records from the National Monuments record. The digital archive consists of the final reports on this process, as well as the Draft Framework.
DOI: 10.5284/1000316
title: Wrecks on the Seabed / Multibeam Sonar

description: The Wrecks on the Seabed project tests ways of assessing and evaluating wreck sites to assist with understanding the effects of marine aggregate dredging on shipwrecks. The project has continued through two rounds of the ALSF funding running from 2002 to 2006.
DOI: 10.5284/1000325
title: Extensive Urban Survey - The Central Marches Historic Towns Survey 1992-6

description: Hereford and Worcester County Archaeological Service (now Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service) launched the Central Marches Historic Towns Survey in 1992, as part of the national EUS programme instigated and funded by English Heritage. The project comprised a survey of all the smaller towns in the (former) county of Hereford and Worcester, as well as in Shropshire (the three county towns were excluded). The intention was to provide high-quality information about the archaeological potential of towns for archaeologists and local planning authorities. Between 1992 and 1996 sixty four towns were surveyed in Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and Shropshire. The County towns were not surveyed.
DOI: 10.5284/1000329
title: MOLAS: Royal Opera House 1996 Excavations

description: The large-scale excavation at the site of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, Greater London, was undertaken by the Museum of London Archaeology Service in 1966. The site covered part of the Middle Saxon trading port of Lundenwic which was discovered in London's West End in the mid-1980s. The excavations added greatly to the understanding of this settlement. The archive currently contains texts, comma delimited text files suitable for importing into a database and GIS data. It provides artefact, ecofact and context information. Low-level interpretive groupings of contexts are described and illustrated as part of a GIS.
DOI: 10.5284/1000270
title: A template for increasing public awareness of archaeological investigations associated with mineral workings

description: The Template for Increasing Public Awareness of Archaeological Investigations Associated with Mineral Workings project was funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund as rebursed by English Heritage. The project was initiated by Hanson Aggregates in conjunction with Cambridge Archaeological Unit of the University of Cambridge. The objective of this intitiative was to increase public awareness of the vast amount of archaeological knowledge and finds arising from investigation works associated with mineral extraction. As such, it essentially involved the public presentation of the results of long-term, archaeological fieldwork programmes at Hanson's Needingworth (Barleycroft Farm/Over), Colne Fen, Earith and Bradley Fen, Whittlesey Quarries. The digital archive consists of the final project report, educational material and an image gallery of artwork and publicity material produced by the project.
DOI: 10.5284/1000321
title: Radiocarbon dating bone samples recovered from gravel sites

description: The Radiocarbon dating bone samples recovered from gravel sites is an Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund project as rebursed by English Heritage. The project was undertaken by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit. Radiocarbon pre-treatment chemistry is costly and time-consuming and so it is often not feasible to attempt to date bones, especially in large numbers, from gravel sites or others known for poor bone preservation. However, sites which predominantly yield bone which contain insufficient surviving collagen to date (ie &lt;1% of the pristine amount) do include a small fraction of bones in which collagen is better retained.
DOI: 10.5284/1000335
title: West Yorkshire Archaeological Service Geophysical Survey Archive

description: West Yorkshire Archaeological Service have carried out a number of geophysical surveys to determine the archaeological potential of the sites. The results of these surveys are being archived and made available by the Archaeology Data Service. For each site there is a report, a set of illustrations and the raw geophysical data.
DOI: 10.5284/1000328
title: Newham Museum Archaeology Project Archives

description: The Newham Museum Archaeology Project Archives are the result of rescuing the files from the computers of the Newham Museum Archaeology Service when it was closed down in 1988. The archive represents over ten years of fieldwork. It includes material covering over 180 archaeological sites investigated by the Newham Museum Archaeology Service and also by previously closed units including the Passmore Edwards and Manor Valley museums. Many of these sites have not been published.
DOI: 10.5284/1000330
title: NERC Ancient Biomolecules Initiative

description: The Ancient Biomolecules Initiative is a Natural Environment Research Council programme exploring the biomolecular record of past life which is entombed in archaeological and geological deposits. The findings have applications in archaeology, anthropology, forensic science, research into the past climates and oil exploration. This resource consists of a series of leaflets in PDF format which describe the key findings of the Ancient Biomolecules Initiative.
DOI: 10.5284/1000338
title: Ambleside Roman Fort bibliography and finds database

description: The Armitt Museum Ambleside Roman Fort archive is the digital database of finds resulting from excavations carried out between 1913 and 1920 and an extensive bibliography on Roman archaeology local to the area. Both database and bibliography are available for downloading.