This research concerns objects of personal ornamentation dating to the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. It seeks to catalogue extensive data on known personal ornaments of all raw materials and find contexts. Data recorded will include object form, material, spatial location, and form-specifi…

I would like to become a researcher level user in order to access the relevant information needed to complete my PhD thesis. I am a postgraduate research student with the OU and have until October 2022 to complete my project. The purpose of the project is to write a comprehensive economic…

Part of this involves researching findspots of Mesolithic axes and other worked flint in southern England using information from Historic Environment Records and the Portable Antiquities Scheme in order to examine distribution and relationship to topography and underlying geology.

I'm a part time Phd student at University of Winchester researching the cult of the sky deity in Roman Britain. The main datasets for this project will come from material culture, including metal figurines and associated cult symbols found in stone, metalwork and other materials s…

I am researching the burial of complete and fragmented lead tanks and panels dated to the fourth century AD. Part of my approach is viewing them as part of landscapes of continued deposition, not just looking at where they've been found in the country but how they represent continued aspe…

Northumbria was formed primarily from Bernicia and Deira's unification. Later expansion resulted in Northumbria extending from the Humber to the Firth of Forth and from coast to coast. Despite this appearance of a unified kingdom, clear divisions seem to have existed within Northumbria. C…

I'm a senior lecturer in Forensics and Forensic Archaeologist (accredited professional member with the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences) and I'm in the early stages of part-time PhD study in Archaeology at the University of Winchester. My project examines clandestine deposition prac…

I am completing a PhD at the University of Leicester looking at the early and high mediaeval archaeology of Ipswich. The total aim of my project is to study how social practice origins of the town, and comparing it with mediaeval London. I am mostly relying on an English Heritage project …

I am looking at the effect of Re-enactment and Wargaming on the archaeological record and to this end, I would like to be able to interrogate your database for items which have been identified as being a reproduction, to be used to illustrate one aspect of how this could have influenced t…

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I would like this application to be considered for research-level user status. I am an Midlands4Cities funded PhD researcher with the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, supervised by Professor David Mattingly, Associate Pr…

My name is Katherine Thomson, I am a PhD student at NYU. I am doing a course on the origin of money. I hope to do a term paper on the causes of monetization in Roman Britain.

Building on Hopkins (1980) Taxes and Trade model, I plan to look for correlations between monetization and…

Research outline: The harrying of the north. This notes accompanies the application for PhD studies to the Department of archaeology, University of York. Historians generally agree that the harrying of the north did take place. Palliser cites Freeman claiming 'William made it [The North]…

PhD research at the University of Birmingham.

For the past two years, we have been researching the landscape context of bog bodies to understanding the positioning of bodies within the contemporaneous bog. Factors such as distance from the edge of the bog, as well as surface wetne…

University of Nottingham

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In my phd thesis I am researching the coin finds of the Roman emperors Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus and Commodus. One of my research focus deals with the representation of these emperors. Therefore I quantify the coin types from the finds. The find spots within the database of PAS brings…

I am writing a PhD thesis (Wrocław University, Poland) on Finds of Roman provincial coins of the eastern part of the Roman Empire in Central Europe minted 44 BC- 296 AD. As I was collecting an as wide finds database as possible, which is important because of the rarity of these finds, I …

I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Central Lancashire. My research aims to explore identity construction in Roman Lancashire, using coin evidence and artefacts associated with personal adornment.
In order to carry out this research, and obtain the best possible data…

Project Title: The (re-)making of the North Sea world: politics, trade and long-distance interactions between Anglo-Saxon England and Merovingian Gaul in the 'long' seventh century

My project investigates interactions between Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Gaul in the seventh century th…

I previously worked for the scheme as an intern in both Suffolk and Lancashire/Cumbria and am currently working on my PhD, looking at small metal artefacts from the early Medieval period in Suffolk. I am looking at whether changes in the material expression of identity can tell us about t…

The proposed research will examine metalwork, principally brooches, from Viking-Age England to provide new insights into the impact of Scandinavian settlers on Anglo-Saxon society and economy. Over the last 20 years, metal-detected finds reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme have tr…