My research is on Romano-British sculpture in context in Eastern England. Thus in order to get the full picture of the repertoire of sculpture found in the area, more recent finds should also be included. This study is for my research master thesis at Leiden University, Netherlands, which…

Society and Religion in Wirral - beyond Rome This research project targets Wirral in the early middle ages, or post Roman era. The North West of England in this period is particularly under researched and the reasons for this will form part of the overarching discussion on how this sectio…

I am undertaking post graduate study on the Wars of the Roses battlefields of Tewkesbury and Barnet and intend on undertaking large scale metal detector surveys of these sites. It will be very beneficial to me if I am able to view precise locations of already recovered artefacts as this c…

Network analysis of the distribution of food plants in Roman and Medieval Britain is a new project hosted at the Department of Archaeology of the University of Nottingham and directed by Dr. H.A. Orengo and Dr. A. Livarda. The project aims at analysing the distribution of archaeobotanical…

I am a full time postgraduate researcher at the University of Nottingham (UoN), funded by the AHRC and the Midlands3cities Doctoral Training Partnership. I also work as a freelance museum archaeologist and oral historian. I previously studied for a BA (Hons) in Archaeology, Anthropology a…

The working title for my MPhil/PhD research is "An assessment of the Chalk upland surface scatters of North-west Europe". This involves a comparative analysis of Middle and Upper Pleistocene upland sites in North-west Europe with the objective of establishing whether or not the archaeolog…

I'm a PhD student researching what the archaeological material culture can tell us about the relationship between humans and chickens as part of the Changing Cultural and Scientific Perceptions of Human-Chicken Interactions project. I'm gathering data from the Iron Age and Roman periods…

As part of my PhD into burhs in the West Midlands, I am investigating the networks between the Æthelflædan burhs built in West Mercia in the late ninth and early tenth century and the way in which these sites developed into civic and economic hubs alongside their military functions. Par…

PhD Thesis Title: "Where there's muck there's brass!" Coinage in the Northumbrian landscape and economy, c.575 - c.867 Research question / scholarly context This currently remains unchanged from the original submission: To wh…

My PhD research at the University of York focuses is entitled 'Late Roman Pottery Production in Context: the Crambeck Ware Industry and its Landscape Setting'. One of the main focuses of my research is to attempt to establish the extent of the production of Crambeck Ware in the area; whet…

I am a PhD research student at the university of Kent at Canterbury. My area of research is the Iron Age Hill Forts of Kent and I require additional access rights to this database so that I am able to look at the pattern of finds surrounding the hill forts. I started my studies in Jan 2…

Using landscape archaeology and the detailed topographic information found in Anglo-Saxon boundary clauses, this research project sets out to reconstruct the network of routes that served economy and society in eighth- to eleventh-century Wessex. The project sets out to explore what the …

I am currently studying for an AHRC funded PhD in Archaeology at the University of Bristol. My PhD focuses on investigating the Viking Age cemeteries at Repton in Derbyshire, through isotopic analyses of human remains. I am carrying out strontium and oxygen analyses of tooth enamel…

My Phd is on the Monastic Order of the Gilbertines founded around 1130, notable both for its double houses, containing canons and nuns, and the claim of later historians that it was the only truly 'English Order'. Of the original twenty-five monastic houses, eleven have been destroyed or …

An IRC funded PhD research at UCD The primary aim of this project is to investigate human activity strategies and landscape usage in Leicestershire after the complete retreat of the Devensian ice fields, a period witnessing the re-colonisation and settlement of the…

I have already mapped the data from the HER and have worked with local collectors of flint to help identify scatters of flint and changes in technology, but higher access to the PAS database would add another layer of data to this part of my PhD at Winchester University. As part of this s…

I am finishing my PhD thesis this year and access to spatial data would be invaluable for my work. For my thesis I am researching metalsmithing tools and have been compiling a database of hammers, anvils, chisels and other metalsmithing tools in Britain. This will be entered into ArcGIS t…

I am currently in the second year of my PhD which analyses of the way the early medieval people apprehended and engaged with waterscapes. Western Sussex, where rivers and the coast are dominant features in the topography of the county, is taken as a case study. The physical character of t…

I am a PhD student at Oxford, investigating processes of memory and forgetting through transitions in Roman Britain. I particular I am looking for objects that are 'out of time' or have been deposited in an unusual manner or place. I hope to use the PAS data to blend the sites that I will…

This study explores the significance of Portable Antiquities Scheme data (PAS) for Lincolnshire. Particular attention is given to how finds come together to form palimpsests, and how these palimpsests in turn can be used to infer persistence of place. Lots of temporal heat-maps throughout.