My PhD project involves using artefactual information, specifically common types of artefacts, to study communication and trade links between Early Medieval sites in Britain and the North West coast of Europe. In order to accomplish this I am building a database containing information ab…

I am now entering the 2nd year of my full-time Mphil/PhD project at the University of Chester, researching the means - in terms of leadership, finance, recruitment, arms supplies and logistics, fortification and the nature and type of combat - used by both sides to prosecute the First Eng…

My post-graduate research project is called "The Don Valley in Prehistory: Upland and Lowland Interactions and Developments". By using a holistic comparative methodology, contextually, informed by an approach combining landscapes and social based routines and activities, I ask the questi…

My research aims to examine portable artefacts from the British Mid-Late Saxon periods in light of their social landscape, contextualising them within their local cultural milieu as well as within the wider natural environment. By using a 'nested' case study approach I will analyse the re…

My PhD thesis examines changing patterns of activity in the environs around documented and place-name attested assembly sites of the early medieval period in the northeast of England, such as the later Hundreds of Domesday or earlier attestations such as Bede's Yeavering. This intends to …

My project explores how ideas, social customs, and social tastes spread during times of migration and social transition. I am exploring how the depiction of animal heads on cruciform brooches from the 5th and 6th centuries AD were employed in Britain, Germany, Scandinavia and the Netherla…

My Phd research focuses on the late-Roman through early-medieval transition time period. I am examining two study areas in the former kingdom of Northumbria; one north of Hadrian's Wall in the Milfield Basin and another in the Yorkshire Wolds. I am using GIS to examine settlement patter…

I would like to become a research level user as I intend to use the PAS for my Doctoral study on the Western Midlands from the Post Roman, through the Early Medieval period. I am currently a Masters student at Oxford University, reading Early Medieval Archaeology. I would need acce…

I am currently in the first year of my PhD at the University of Sheffield researching the landscape setting of Bronze Age metalwork deposits in Central Britain, an area incorporating Northumberland, Durham, Teeside, North East Cumbria and the Eastern Scottish Borders. As part of my study …

PhD research on personal material culture from 13th and 14th century.

An investigation into patterns of loss, meanings of wealth and expressions of identity in medieval rural society. Supervised by Professor David Hinton at Southampton University.

Expected completion 2017.

I have recently started a PhD at Leicester University, looking at Iron Age and early Roman terrets from western and central Britain. I will be drawing together existing records of the terrets, and looking at the manufacture, styles, distribution and find contexts of terrets in order to s…

My PhD thesis investigates the reuse of earlier landscapes for burial in early medieval Wessex. The research, funded by a block grant from the AHRC, will look specifically at the relationship between Anglo-Saxon burials and Neolithic to Roman landscape features, such as monuments, earthwo…

My research regards the Iron Age of the Scillies, with a strong emphasis on Oceanographic modelling of palaeo-oceanography and site location. Small finds are an important proxy to understand site locations and to understand social relationships. The use of this data would be an important …

I am PhD student in archaeology at the University of York, studying Roman settlement in south-west Wiltshire and the Montagne Sainte Victoire in Provence, France, and looking more widely at Roman attitudes to the natural world. I would like to use the research level PAS database to get de…

I am a 'thesis pending' PhD student in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Nottingham. I specialise in Bronze and Iron Age wetland settlement in Britain and am compiling wetland sites and finds in teh British Isles. I began with Scottish sites in November 2009 and have rece…

My study aims to investigate Eastern England during the Viking Age as a landscape of conflict. Between c.AD 878-886 a peace agreement was reached between King Alfred of Wessex and the Danish Viking leader Guthrum. The area settled by the Vikings offers an attractive study area due to its…

I am investigating the change in practices relating to metal production in Britain the first millennium BC rather than simply the change in technical aspects of production. My current understanding of the evidence from southern England, formed by preliminary analysis, suggest that the cha…

I am currently working on my PhD which will explore the pre-conquest sculpture of Cheshire. The project will go beyond the art-historical approach that has dominated previous work and begin a re-characterization of the regions sculpture through the contextualisation of these monuments wit…

PhD and published research into deliberately concealed objects in old houses and buildings in the UK and Australia. The research will continue for at least another two years. In some cases, I may request permission from property owners to visit sites of finds and to discuss the circumstan…

Glass beads form a facet of material culture in Iron Age Britain previously only considered through classification or scientific analysis, yet a study of these artefacts utilising approaches that explore materiality and identity remains absent. This creates a lacuna that is detrimental to…