This research is intended to identify the various sources of the Claudian coins on the PAS Database, in line with work at the Bloomberg site in London and Continental work.

Referee: Sam Moorhead (British Museum)

My research explores the relationship between ethnicity and social status/vested interests during the Later Iron Age and Roman Britain period and re-evaluating the current approaches towards the archaeological materials in that timeframe, mainly focusing on southeast England.

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I'm a MA Archaeology student and for my dissertation I'm looking at Roman/Early medieval disc brooches. My aim is to attempt to clarify the chronology and distribution, and explore how material culture reflected the transition from Roman to Anglo-Saxon.

Referee: James Gerrard (Uni…

My dissertation project aims to examine and produce a characterisation of Roman activity in North East Wales and across the border in the Cheshire/Wirral region. My aim is to use finds, artefacts and known sites in order to assess what activities and settlements are located in the region …

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…

This project seeks to investigate the evidence for maritime and maritime-related activities around the English coastline in the c. 400 years of Roman occupation. Reports of Roman finds and of potential Roman shipwrecks regularly appear in publications but there has been l…

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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…

I am a Masters student at the Universtiy of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and I would like to request that my account be upgraded to research level, so that I may gather more complete data on my chosen subject, the archaeology of witchcraft and counter-witchcraft during the 17th Century.…

Iron Age Hillforts on the Salisbury Plain/ River Avon Wiltshire

I am studying for an MA in Archaeology at the University of Buckingham.

My research/dissertation is focused on Iron Age Hillforts on the Salisbury Plain including those near the River Avon, Wi…

I am a third year Archaeology and Anthropology student at the University of Exeter. For my dissertation I am researching the change in coinage and coin hoarding behaviours during the late to post-Roman period in Devon.

Referee: Ioana Oltean

My current thread of study seeks to characterise the rural preceptories of the Knights Templar in England 1128-1308, aiming to discuss their spatial layout, nature and socio-economic impact. The dissertation will use case studies to illustrate key themes, seeking to determine how archaeol…

My dissertation subject for this year is an examination of the Mesolithic period across Cornwall, specifically, considering any links between Mesolithic finds; their spatial relationships, their use and the landscape type.

To do this I would like to have access to the spatial data…

Heritage Lincolnshire are currently working with LIncolnshire County Council on a pilot project, 'Farming Finds' looking at matching records on the HER and 'ground truthing' those along with interviewing 4 farmers to potentially enrich the archaeological record and Lincolnshire HER. Adam …

I am compiling a gazetteer of temples, shrines and holy places of Roman Britain, as part of the Fontes Epigraphici Religionum Celticarum Antiquarum project; a European research initiative sponsored by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. I have a database of approximately 400 sites throughou…

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…

My project would be to use the brooches found in a militarised area at forts along Hadrian's Wall and from the PAS in Northumbria, and then compare these with those from an area generally seen as more removed from Roman influence like Devon and Cornwall, and possibly if time const…

A study of the Anglo-Saxons. University of Tours, France.

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Professor Elisabeth Lorans

I'm an MSc archaeology student and in order to complete my assignment on medieval weights I need access to finsdspots of objects to create a distribution map.

Referee: Ulrike Sommer, Institute of Archaeology, UCL

I am attempting to use network theory to examine the spread of Christianity in East Anglia in the early medieval period for my dissertation at the University of Leicester. One aspect of the study is investigating both 'productive sites' and artefacts such as styli and coins to look at pos…

My Master's project is focused on the typology of medieval arrows from England, including those in the PAST database. The purpose is to compare and contrast the typologies previously published by the London Museum and the expanded typology based on this created by Oliver Jessop.

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