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Research projects in progress or completed
Primary investigator Title Level End date
Liam Medieval Towns of Cheshire

I am undertaking a PhD on the medieval towns of Cheshire at the University of Birmingham and would like to check for finds within the towns I am studying, rather than just the general area.

PhD level research -
Liam Registered Battlefields at Risk

A total of six Registered Battlefields are on the 2013 Heritage at Risk Register (Historic England). Of these, five cite development pressure on the urban fringe as the principal vulnerability. The importance of the areas designated as Registered Battlefields is not in question, however i…

Desk based assessment -
Liam Later Prehistoric Metalwork

Dr Katharine Becker, University College Cork, is an expert on late prehistoric metalwork, especially pins.

Personal research project -
Liam Anglo-Saxon placenames, ending in -ingas

My PhD project (at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London) is an investigation of the Old English proper noun ending -ingas, found most frequently in place-names where in most cases it is most credibly interpreted as denoting a group of people who existed in the Anglo-Sax…

PhD level research -
Liam The Icknield Way and Peddars Way

I have been researching the history and effect on the settlement and landscape of two parallel routes, the Icknield Way and Peddars Way in West Norfolk, to complete my MA at the Centre for English Local History at Leicester University. I have already written much of the dissertation, maki…

Masters degree -
Liam Welbeck Abbey Parkland Management Plan

I am currently undertaking archaeological research as part of the preparation of a parkland management plan that is being prepared for Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire. I already have the HER data as shape files and would like to add PAS find spots to the project gazette. This will enable…

Desk based assessment -
Liam Providing context for excavations at Southborough. Kent

I am an experienced, qualified archaeologist who is currently directing excavations in the Southborough valley in Kent.

The excavations are part of a long term, community, research project exploring archaeological features and creating a new time frame for the Tunbridge Wells area…

Major publication -
Liam Roman Material in Anglo-Saxon Burials

To assess the use of Roman material in Anglo-Saxon burial contexts. In particular whether the Roman Coins that appear in such contexts are of particular reverse types; and thus whether this pattern follows the regional distribution of such reverse types. I also intend to suggest possible …

Masters degree -
Liam Roman Metalwork Hoards from Britain

I am a current PhD student at the University of Leicester investigating metalwork hoards in Britain from the Roman period. The project will use GIS analysis of all the known hoards to investigate any spatial patterning in the data and the landscape context of the deposits. The aims of thi…

PhD level research -
Liam Roman Religion at the Saxon Shore Forts

To consult the PAS Database to assist in a study of religion within the Roman army at the Saxon Shore Forts.

University of Kent

Masters degree -
Liam TBC

Reading University

PhD level research -
Liam Ferrous Rituals in Iron Age Britain: A Study in Depositional Praxis

University of Hull

Title and Abstract: Ferrous Rituals in Iron Age Britain: A Study in Depositional Praxis. This research goes beyond Richard Hingley's study of structured depositions in Iron Age Britain by exploring practices surrounding the disposal, death, and superstition of i…

PhD level research -
Liam Coin Finds in Lancashire

Consultation of the PAS Database to give potential context to two Roman coin hoards from Lancashire.

Personal research project -
Liam The Horse in Late Iron Age Society

The first project I aim to complete is an expansion of my previous Iron Age coin research - investigating the role of horses in later Iron Age societies. I want to take a bit more of a theoretical approach which looks beyond the usual associations of power and warrior elite and seeks to e…

Personal research project -
Liam People and Place: The Making of the Kingdom of Northumbria AD 300-800

Together with Dr Sarah Semple and Dr Brian Buchanan, I am working on a Leverhulme funded project at Durham University. Our project title is People and Place: The Making of the Kingdom of Northumbria AD 300-800. We will work primarily with burial data and GIS mapping and wish to use PAS da…

Major research (Leverhulme funded) 2018
Liam Life in Early Medieval Wales

I have just begun a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2015–18) to write a book, Life in Early Medieval Wales, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Nancy Edwards is Professor of Archaeology at Bangor University.

Major research (Leverhulme funded) -
Liam Ritual Deposits in Anglo-Saxon England

"How can non-funerary deposits inform our understanding of political, social, and ideological change in Southern Britain during the Early Middle Ages, 5th to 11th centuries ?". This is the question that I wish to answer in an MPhil/PhD project that I have recently embarked upon at the UCL…

PhD level research -
Liam Deposition of Bronze Age Hoards

Department of Archaeology, Exeter University

PhD level research -
Liam Great Orme Bronze Age mine, North Wales

This project is looking at the composition of the metal produced by the Great Orme Bronze Age mines. It also involves looking at the metalwork which is consistent with a Great Orme source and can therefore consider typologies and distribution of objects.

Department of Archaeology,…

PhD level research -
Liam Norfolk Historic Environment Records Assessments

To consult the PAS Database to assist Norfolk County Council's Historic Environment Service with assessment and activities

Desk based assessment -

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