I am an MA student in Landscape Archaeology at Bristol University and need to access the PAS in connection with two of my assignments - a desk based assessment of Westbury Camp in Somerset and an HER enhancement of Woodspring Priory also in Somerset. For for both I need to see if there a…

I am researching Bronze Age hoards and important individual finds, and plan to place them in their social and landscape contexts to try and better understand them. I would like to have greater access to the database to analyse the spatial relationships between hoards and topographic and c…

I am doing a dissertation for an MA (Medieval History) at York University, on Anglo-Saxon and Viking assembly-places in the wapentakes of Agbrigg, Morley, and Osgoldcross. The deadline for submission is 19 September 2011. Precise identifications of findspots of material culture (such as t…

Survey of Papal Bullae around the West Midlands region and Wales - University of Exeter student volunteering with Shropshire and Herefordshire branch of PAS scheme. 

I am currently doing the MSc course in Applied Landscape Archaeology at Oxford University. I am engaged in producing a dissertation on the Bronze and Iron ages in East Surrey and West Kent. I would like as part of this to produce an updated distribution map of Celtic coins in this area br…

My research focusses on pilgrimage in the Medieval British landscape, examining hw the pilgrim utilised ther Medieval route network, distribution of pilgrim related material culture, and the sensory narrative of travel across the Medieval environment.

For MSc dissertation at UCL (completion Sept 2011) - a spatial analysis of iron age coin distribution in England. I'm investigating whether there is a link between iron age hill forts and coins, whether these coins are clustered around certain hill forts (eg. do the larger hill for…

I wish to become a research level user while undertaking research for my Master's dissertation. In brief, this is looking at Chalk Hillfigures (especially the Uffington Horse) in a landscape context. The data from the PAS database is of considerable importance in attempting understand the…

I wish to become a research level user as I am undertaking research on medieval book fittings for my Masters Dissertation and subsequently my PhD, both in archaeology, for which I will be required to look at records from the Scheme's database. The probable combined length of these project…

I am currently researching dissertation material for my MA in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Reading. My dissertation topic will evaluate and categorise the symbolic nature and iconography of Anglo-Saxon amulets in early medieval England. I would like to use the PAS as a basis …

Using a GIS to identifying early-medieval coastal market sites in the UK I am taking a master’s degree in Applied Geographical Information Systems at Kingston University. As part of my course I need to produce a research project showing how GIS technology and spatial analysis tec…

Where and what military equipment has ben recorded on the PAS database. I plan to explain how it was found out of a military context. This project will last until August 2011.

From February 2011 until approx. June 2012 I intend to take on a topic listed on the PAS website: Art styles in Anglo-Scandinavian contexts: Comparison of late Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian art styles within and outside the Danelaw. Is the administrative boundary reflected in these distrib…

Aspects of a Blackmore Vale Landscape Investigation into landscape development in north Dorset. Using archaeological data within a GIS to construct a model for settlement, communication and agricultural development along the Corallian ridge of the Blackmore Vale, from the late prehistori…

I am a student at the University of York focusing on looking at the remains for the Viking shield in the archaeology of the British Isles. I am interested in the way the Viking shield changes use during the 8th-11th century, not only in burial contexts but also in battle as a functional i…

In my masters dissertation, I am going to be investigating landscape and identity in Neolithic and Bronze Age Suffolk. The key issues I aim to explore are: How the Suffolk landscape was first utilised by people to construct long-standing social groupings How these…

Im a masters student at the University of Leicester, writing a paper on the biases in using PAS data, particularly for the Roman period. This will include the areas of the country with poor levels of finds reporting, such as in urban areas, and forested areas, or places far from a finds l…

The study will consider those coins found in Hampshire and the IOW which circulated in the area prior to the Roman conquest. Since it is not particular to any tribe or sub-period, it will cover a broad range of coin types and help identify interactions between tribal areas during the peri…

A marginalised collection? : The utilisation of numismatic collections in regional museums in the East Midlands, with particular reference to the collections of Derby Museums and Art Gallery.

Masters thesis, Museum andHeritage Management at Nottingham Trent University (Distinction).

I am researching the development of Anglo-Saxon settlement and society in Nottinghamshire for my Masters disseration at Nottingham University. I hope to use PAS data for mapping purposes to identify settlement location, as well as for comparison of artefacts with excavation data from the …