Using published and unpublished data from a variety of sources including excavations and the Portable Antiquities Scheme, I am building a database of early and middle Iron Age brooches found in Britain. This will form the basis for a re-evaluation of existing brooch typologies, analysis o…

My PhD study focuses on girdle hangers as a material means of constructing and representing early Anglo-Saxon female identity.

Girdle hangers are an early Anglo Saxon dress accessory of the 5th and 6th centuries. As decorated copper-alloy copies of functional keys, occurri…

I would like to become research user. I previously studied a collection of horse and rider brooches from Leicestershire Museums via PAS and Sally Worrell for my MSc, which I am in process of writing up hopefully for publication. Currently working on PhD at the Institute of Archaeology, UC…

This is an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award supervised by Dr Gardner and Ms. Sally Worrell of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and Dr. Roger Bland of The Department of Portable Antiquities & Treasure at British Museum.

In many preindustrial soci…

This is an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award supervised by Professor Colin Haselgrove at the University of Leicester and Dr. Roger Bland of The Department of Portable Antiquities & Treasure at British Museum.
Penannular brooches were manufactured and used for an unusuall…

At present I am a full-time Postgraduate student at the University of Leicester. The aim of my project is to examine the Later Iron Age coinage of Britain in order to reconstruct endogenous characters of the various communities/areas throughout Britain. By choice of sample locations, who…

Research Proposal The Manufacture and Meaning of Early Medieval Pewter The history of pewter, a tin alloy, stretches from the Egyptian New Kingdom to the modern day. With tin and lead found in abundant quantities in the British Isles, pewter was second only to cloth among English …

I am presently a part-time PhD candidate at Southampton University looking at Roman rural settlement in central southern England. My research commenced in February of this year, so that my exact approach still remains uncertain, although I am most concerned with economic aspects of the su…

Investigating anthropomorphic representational art on metallic objects in Coastal Eastern England, AD 400 -750. This project identifies a corpora of human imagery depicted on metalwork from Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Essex and Kent. 

This thesis exami…

Natasha is looking at men in Britain from the period 1509 (beginning of the reign of Henry VIII) until the end of James I’s reign in 1625 and exploring the significance of jewels that they wore, owned and circulated. Trying to move away from notions of jewellery that sees it as trifles …

I would like to request an upgrade to research level user. I am working on a project as an MPhil/PhD research student at the University of Winchester, looking at the landscape context of Bronze Age hoards in South Central England, with particular reference to the southern coastline…

Ph.D. Abstract: The cruciform brooch is among the most abundant decorative dress accessories of the 5th and 6th centuries AD. Since the advent of the Portable Antiquities Scheme the number of known instances has dramatically increased to a value well into the thousands. Considering…

I am registered for a part-time PhD at UCL looking at: ‘The nature of Island settlement in the Middle Ages: A comparative study of Island archaeology of the English Channel.’ My main area of interest is the Isle of Wight, looking to compare this to the Channel Islands, where possible…

The Brooch in Context: Cultural Identity and Artistic expression in Late Anglo-Saxon England.

This is an AHRC funded PhD which aims to create the first nationwide study of late Saxon brooches (8th-11th). This will make use of the wealth of information that has been ga…

People and Environment in the Severn Estuary from the First Century BC to the End of the Second Century AD My PhD research centres on the relationships between people and their environment through focussing on the notion of social change and continuity during the late Iron Age and …

Currently studying for a DPhil at Sussex University which is looking at environmental change and land use in the Darent valley in Kent. This also links to a community archaeological project that i am co field director of - The Darent Valley Archaeological Project. As part of the project w…

Doctoral research at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham. The thesis will examine rural settlement in Shropshire during the late pre-Roman Iron Age to Roman transition period with reference to the developing urban centres of the Roman province.

I am researching rural settlement in Kent during the Roman period and hope to integrate evidence from a diversity of levels. I am interested in the potential of PAS data as semi-random evidence which may throw light on a) the striking pattern of Roman settlement on current distribution ma…

Studying for PHd with the University of Bristol, department of Archaeaology and Anthropology. Looking for new evidence of Viking occupation in the SW of England. Evidence from portable antiquities is to be sythesized with other cultural evidence to identify areas on which to focus arch…

Primary focus on the Iron Age Oppida in the South-East of Britain, mainly on the known oppida at Chichester and Colchester. A secondary dataset will be compiled of all known Iron Age activity from local HER's, the PAS database as well as any research investigations and use to conduct a sp…