My research relates to a dissertation for MSc Applied Landscape Archaeology with the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford. Course director is Professor David Griffiths. My dissertation supervisor is Dr Wendy Morrison, Chilterns Conservation Board. …

I am currently on the Msc Archaeology programme at Cardiff University and I am embarking on my dissertation. This research project aims to collate information on chariot and equine related finds from later prehistoric Wales. Results will be presented in a database of find locations, date …

I am currently a Masters student at the University of Reading and am

researching the role seal matrices with animal motifs played in the

communication of personal identity in medieval England and Wales for

my dissertation. Part of my research involves analysing fin…

I am writing to request research level access to the PAS database. I have commenced a MPhil in Archaeology at Bangor University, North Wales. My undergraduate dissertation focused on the material culture and ritual of 'Holy' Wells in Wales; a theme which I am continuing at post-gr…

I'm currently a masters student on the MSc Archaeological Sciences programme at the University of Bradford. I am undertaking an assignment looking at metal detecting in the area of St. Ives Bingley and am interested in using findspot data to spot patterns using GIS. This is to identify ar…

I am currently studying MSc Landscapes and Digital Heritage at the University of Bradford, my current interest in using find spot data to look for any patterns of metal detecting in St. Ives, Bingley in Bradford using GIS. This is to evaluate which areas would need to be protected from an…

I am working with my supervisor Henry Chapman at the University of Birmingham (h.chapman@bham.ac.uk), investigating the apparent East/West divide in the nature of Bronze Age metal deposition in river contexts.
For my research, I am looking f…

Create a catalogue raissoné of Iron Age objects within the PAS database that represent the human head and face. Seek to understand why and how heads and faces are represented, consider style and representation in local, regional, and greater context, and how they connect to b…

Student Name: Pauline Clarke, 1514346

Proposed Title: Formation of the Anglo-Welsh Borderlands in the early Middle Ages: Portable Antiquities in the Landscape

Aims & Objectives

AIM(S):

To under…

I am a masters student at the University of Oxford, and I am hoping to use PAS location data in a number of masters level research essays over the next half a year (Until september). I will be attempting to analyse castle taskscapes using the material culture present within the wider land…

I am just about to start an MRes in Archaeology at the University of Chester (already formally enrolled). The research relates to Roman roads and PAS-recorded artefacts. In order to produce meaningful results I will need fairly precise location data for finds, though I am cons…

I am seeking access to the PAS database at research level for my MA dissertation which I am currently undertaking at Cardiff University. My dissertation is a regional study of the historical county of Gloucestershire in the post-Roman period. I intend to utilise the PAS databa…

I am writing a masters dissertation at the University of York investigating Viking inset lead weights associated with the exploits of the Great Army which ravaged the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the late ninth century. My research questions include why specific items were chosen as insets, an…

My name is Matt Beverley and I am an MA student at the University of Reading where I will be finishing the course in September 2020. I am currently in the process of writing my dissertation which is titled: Big Cats in Britannia: assessing awareness of big cat species in Roman Britain. My…

I intend to use the database for my MA dissertation at Durham University. The subject of research is Early Mediaeval use of Roman sites on the Saxon Shore. The Portable Antiquities Scheme would be used to collect data relating to finds in the vicinity of selected sites which will be used …

This thesis will examine medieval seal matrices, particularly personal non-heraldic ones, and will consider what these objects communicate about the identity of the user. The imagery and mottos will be examined to see if there is any link between the subject and the owner, the significanc…

I am a Computational Archaeology masters student at UCL, and am writing dissertation on how the presence of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery impacts the contemporary material culture that is found in a landscape (presence/absence, types of material culture present, etc), including looking …

I am applying for an upgrade in status to research level so as to better conduct my research for my Masters dissertation-I am studying for a MA in Medieval Archaeology from the University of York. My research is on later medieval copper-alloy dress accessories from York and Yo…

I coordinate the MA in Artefact studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, London. The students have a lecture on PAS and do assessed work on interpreting the finds distributions We also had several MA-dissertations based on PAS data.

In ord…

I wish to become a research level user to assist in the writing of my Dissertation on the MS.c. in Applied Landscape Archaeology at the University of Oxford which is a 1 year project.

David Griffiths, Cont. Educ, Oxford University