Research Reports
Find research reports on specific buildings or sites, our large-area aerial survey mapping programme, and commissioned research.
Search Results
-
HAMSTEAD MARSHALL, BERKSHIRE, REPORT ON GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS, 1996
Geophysical survey was conducted over three areas of the extensive archaeological landscape at Hamstead Marshall, Newbury, Berks., to examine the correlation...
Report Number: 2/1997Research Report -
THE IRON AGE ANIMAL BONE EXCAVATED IN 1991 FROM OUTGANG ROAD, MARKET DEEPING (MAD 91), LINCOLNSHIRE
About 35 kilograms of bones, mostly deriving from butchery and food waste, were recovered from the mid-late Iron Age levels at Market Deeping. These were...
Report Number: 5/1997Research Report -
AN ASSESSMENT OF METALWORKING DEBRIS FROM UPHALL CAMP, ILFORD, ESSEX
Excavation within a middle Iron age defended settlement recovered a modest quantity of evidence of metalworking. This included crucible fragments from...
Report Number: 4/1997Research Report -
TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM NEWTON MILL AND NEWINGTON BRIDGE, CRAVEN ARMS, SHROPSHIRE
Three timbers were analysed, two from Newton Mill and one from Newington Bridge. No date was obtained for the bridge, but the main sill beam from the...
Report Number: 6/1997Research Report -
PLANT MACROFOSSILS FROM A LATE ROMAN FARM, GREAT HOLTS FARM, BOREHAM, ESSEX
Excavations at this site revealed the plan of the fields, 3rd and 4th century farmhouses, bathhouse, granaries/barns, well and ponds of a Roman farm....
Report Number: 7/1997Research Report -
FENLAND MANAGEMENT PROJECT: PLANT MACROFOSSILS. CHAPPELLS FIELD, DEEPING ST. JAMES, LINCOLNSHIRE
Ninety-two bulk samples were processed to retrieve charred plant macrofossils from a buried soil and shallow cut features associated with a Bronze Age...
Report Number: 1/1997Research Report -
ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL CRUCIBLE SHERDS FROM LONDON
Fifty-five Roman and sixty-two medieval sherds, from various sites in London, were analysed qualitatively by X-ray fluorescence to identify the metals...
Report Number: 8/1997Research Report -
ANALYSIS OF THE ENGRAVED MIRROR AND ASSOCIATED BROOCHES FROM PORTESHAM, DORSET
Four samples were removed from the component parts of the Iron Age mirror and analysed using an EDX system on an SEM. One brooch was analysed by the same...
Report Number: 10/1997Research Report -
THE ROMAN MAMMAL AND BIRD BONES EXCAVATED IN 1994 FROM GREAT HOLTS FARM, BOREHAM, ESSEX
A small assemblage of animal bones was recovered mainly from 3rd/4th century AD contexts at Great Holts Farm. The majority of the bones are in excellent...
Report Number: 9/1997Research Report -
CARLISLE; ANIMAL BONE
Report Number: 1955Research Report -
TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF THE HALL AND BARN AT GREAT TOMKYNS, UPMINSTER, GREATER LONDON
Dendrochronological analysis of ten samples from the hall house at Great Tomkyns, Upminster, Greater London, has failed to produce any useful evidence...
Report Number: 11/1997Research Report -
LINCOLN EXCAVATIONS 1972-87: REPORT ON THE HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS
Bones from 65 individuals excavated from a number of sites in the city of Lincoln are examined. The majority of the material dates to the Medieval period,...
Report Number: 13/1997Research Report -
TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF EASTBURY MANOR HOUSE, BARKING, GREATER LONDON
Eastbury Manor House, Barking, Greater London is a large three-storey H-shaped brick and timber building built on lands formerly belonging to Barking...
Report Number: 12/1997Research Report -
THE INVESTIGATIVE CONSERVATION OF THE LEAD FISHING WEIGHTS FROM HOLME FEN CAMBRIDGESHIRE
An assemblage of 538 lead fishing weights and associated fragments recovered from excavations carried out at Holme Fen Site 2 in Cambridgeshire was subjected...
Report Number: 70/1997Research Report -
THE DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILLAGE AT THOMLEY, OXFORDSHIRE. REPORT ON GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY, FEBRUARY 1997
Magnetometer and resistance surveys were carried out at the site of the deserted medieval village of Thomley, Oxon (SAM Oxon 237) in February 1997. They...
Report Number: 14/1997Research Report -
THE SAXON, MEDIEVAL AND POST-MEDIEVAL MAMMAL AND BIRD BONES EXCAVATED 1989-91 FROM CASTLE MALL, NORWICH, NORFOLK
A large assemblage of mammal and bird bone from Castle Mall (Norwich) derives from six periods that range from the 9th to 18th century AD. Most belong...
Report Number: 72/1997Research Report -
ASSESSMENT OF METALWORKING DEBRIS FROM NO.1 POULTRY, CITY OF LONDON, 1994-6
Assessment of this Roman, late Saxon and Medieval urban site showed ironsmithing debris to predominate, although some slag from the smelting of iron was...
Report Number: 71/1997Research Report -
TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF OAK TIMBERS FROM THE THAMES FORESHORE PROJECT, GREATER LONDON
A single sample from Syon Reach (site FHL06) proved unsuitable for analysis but two of the timbers from Old Palace Lane (site FRM11) were dated to give...
Report Number: 73/1997Research Report -
TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM ST JOHN'S COMMANDERY, SWINGFIELD, KENT
Dendrochronological analysis of samples from fourteen oak timbers of the roof of St John's Commandery at Swingfield, Kent, resulted in the production...
Report Number: 74/1997Research Report -
HENLEY WOOD,YATTON, SOMERSET: ANIMAL BONE
Report Number: 1956Research Report