Preparing a dissertation for an MA In landscape archaeology at Bristol University. The dissertation covers analysis of the distribution of banjo enclosures in Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire. I would like to map the distribution of iron age coins finds in t…

An investigation into material remains from the Kent and Sussex Weald from the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries to explore the possibility of a British enclave in the area for my MA dissertation. I aim to extend this research at PhD level to possible enclaves throughout England. The dissertati…

Investigating Roman settlement on Anglesey in North Wales as part of a distance learning course in Landscape Archaeology for Leicester University. 
 

MA Landscape Archaeology. Exeter University. 2009-2011.

I am writing a synthesis of the archaeological evidence for the parish of Ringmer, East Sussex for my MA dissertation. The final report will also be added to the county HER which I am updating on a voluntary basis as I locate items that are currently not there. My dissertation is due for …

Currently writing up dissertation for MA Field Archaeology at University of Sussex. For the past 8 years I have been conducting Historical and Archaeological research in the Cukmere Valley where I live and work. Research in progress is on the excavation of the 'chapel' site on Ewe Down be…

I am an MA student in Rome & Its Neighbours at the University of Leicester. I am currently writing my dissertation on the topic of 'magic and identity in Roman Britain' - looking at a lot of personal artefacts that may have had a perceived magical function. Phallic amulets, zoomorphic…

Preparation of a Masters dissertation for examination at Birkbeck, examining Bronze Age metalwork from the river Thames on the Syon Reach.

As part of my MA in Landscape Archaeology, I would like to use PAS data to examine the distribution of anglo-saxon sceattas. In particular I would like to investigate the recovery of several during excavation at Berkeley Castle by the University of Bristol. I also hope the use of GIS ma…

Using the two broad categories of 'the written word' and 'iconography' I am attempting to highlight a significant section of the evidence base for use of magic in Roman Britain in order to identify what this can reveal about the individual users - age, sex, location, socio-economic status…

An exploration of the historical, economic and cultural insights that may be gained by analysing recovered coins as archaeological artefacts.' It will of course be based upon Roger Penhallurick's gazetteer of Cornish Roman coins. I am being supervised by David Mattingly and Jeremy Taylor.…

Dissertation on the distribution of Roman brooches in East Yorkshire. I'd like to compare my data with that for Lincolnshire and a southern county to challenge whether the boundary for the "lowland" region of Roman Britain is further north of the Humber than the accepted orthodoxy. Hull …

I am looking at Belt buckles, strap-ends and book clasps from the Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire and I want to use PAS to help me date my mostly context-less finds.

‘Early medieval finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme, and the search for meaning’ - Masters Degree in Field Archaeology, Dissertation Topic. 2010. Department of Archaeology, University of York. The Portable antiquities scheme has greatly enhanced our ability to locate a…

I am currently undertaking research on Bronze Age axes for my masters thesis. I am looking at the significance of the axe in the Bronze age; by looking at the axe from a biographical angle I want to look at the active role it played in societies. I am looking at many aspects of the life o…

PAS internship through University College London M.A. Course in Artefact Studies. Approved by UCL and Ros Tyrrell. Writing M.A. Thesis on Small Finds and Identity at Roman Caerleon.

A Masters dissertation due January 2011. My research will be based on a phenomenology of the Prehistoric Archaeology of the South Downs in East Sussex. I am also a co-project director for the Darent Valley Archaeological Project and will be using the PAS database for research into the arc…

In the process of researching and writing a dissertation for a Master's degree in archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London, under the supervision of Harvey Sheldon. The subject of the dissertation is land use and settlement in the Cray and Darenth valleys from the Neolithic to Roman …

I am currently writing a thesis on the continuation of Iron Age ritual tradition into the Roman periods of Britain. I have decided to focus primarily on hoarding practice within the landscape (150 BC to 300 AD). The area I have decided to focus on is the Fenlands, especially Cambridgeshir…

Simon will be studing the depositional patterns of Bronze Age metalwork in Kent under the supervision of Antony Ward at the University of Kent