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Sutton Town Centre, London Borough of Sutton: Early Sutton - To Inform the Present for the Future Archaeological Assessment and Reappraisal of the Archaeological Priority Area
As part of the Sutton Heritage Action Zone, Oxford Archaeology was commissioned to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the archaeological evidence...
Report Number: 38/2018Research Report -
RUDSTON, YORKS: STONE
Report Number: 2254Research Report -
Down House, Downe, London Borough of Bromley: Report on Geophysical Surveys, April 2018
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), earth resistance surveys and magnetic surveys were conducted at Down House, Downe, London Borough of Bromley, following...
Report Number: 51/2018Research Report -
Tattershall Castle, Sleaford Road, Tattershall, Lincolnshire: Tree-Ring Analysis of Oak Timbers of the Moat Bridges 2, 3, and 4
Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on 36 samples obtained from oak timbers from three bridges over the moats at Tattershall Castle and three...
Report Number: 52/2018Research Report -
Cropple How, Muncaster, Ravenglass, Cumbria: Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers and Radiocarbon Wigglematching
Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on 39 of the 54 oak timber samples taken from different locations within the extensive complex of buildings...
Report Number: 72/2015Research Report -
Practical reburial of archaeological timbers and environmental monitoring: a case study (project 5497)
The Isle of Wight Council has been working in partnership with Historic England to develop a cost effective methodology for the long-term preservation...
Report Number: 37/2018Research Report -
Sweet chestnut nut fragments from Romano-British sites at Castle Street, Carlisle and Great Holts Farm, Boreham, Essex – a new assessment
Only two finds of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) nuts have been reported from any archaeological or environmental investigation for the pre-medieval...
Report Number: 78/2017Research Report -
Curtis’s and Harvey Ltd Explosives Factory, Cliffe and Cliffe Woods, Medway: Archaeological Survey and Analysis of the Factory Remains.
Between November 2010 and January 2011 English Heritage undertook detailed archaeological survey and analysis of a former chemical explosives factory...
Report Number: 11/2011Research Report -
BURY ST EDMUNDS: STONE
Report Number: 2255Research Report -
Does Wall Plaster Retard the Drying of Walls After Flooding?
After fire or flood, wall plaster is usually removed from walls in an effort to speed drying. This report presents the results of some preliminary, small-scale...
Report Number: 45/2018Research Report -
The Future of Rural Settlement
This document reports on a programme of work intended to provide contextual information to aid consideration of the future of rural settlement in England....
Report Number: 55/2017Research Report -
Hutchinson’s Buildings, 1 & 1a Bridge Street and 101-109 High Street West, Sunderland: Investigation, research and statement of significance
When Hutchinson’s Buildings changed hands in 2017, it presented an opportunity for Historic England (HE), Sunderland City Council (SCC) and its owners...
Report Number: 28/2018Research Report -
Phoenix Hall, Queen Street East, Sunderland: Historic building investigation and assessment of significance
Sunderland’s Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) is a project running between April 2017 and 2020, led by Historic England (HE) and Sunderland City Council. It...
Report Number: 54/2018Research Report -
The Church Interiors of George Edmund Street in the Diocese of Oxford: An Assessment of Significence
George Edmund Street (1824-1881) was one of the most important architects of the Victorian Gothic Revival movement. He was extraordinarily industrious...
Report Number: 59/2018Research Report -
The Blackdown Hills Area of Natural Beauty: The Blackdown Hills AONB and East Devon River Catchments Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey
This document is the final report for the Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AI&M,previously National Mapping Programme or NMP) interpretive aerial photograph...
Report Number: 24/2018Research Report -
Little Toller Farmhouse, Toller Fratrum, Dorset: Building Analysis and Survey
Little Toller Farmhouse is a Grade II* building (NHLE 1228875) on the Heritage at Risk Register. A fire in July 2015 caused damage to the roof and first...
Report Number: 23/2018Research Report -
Fires in Thatched Properties with Wood-Burning Stoves
Since the 1990s, the number of fires occurring in thatch roofed buildings has risen significantly. And in the past decade, more than 500 thatch roofed...
Report Number: 49/2018Research Report -
The Gatehouse, Caynton Manor, Edgmond, Shropshire: Building Investigation
The gatehouse at Caynton Manor is the only intact survivor of a historic manorial complex. The building’s two upper rooms have decorative plasterwork...
Report Number: 70/2018Research Report -
GEOPHYSICS FROM KENCHESTER
Report Number: 2256Research Report -
National Archaeological Identification Survey: South West Cambridgeshire
The National Archaeological Identification Survey (NAIS): South West Cambridgeshire project (RaSMIS 6948) combined the mapping and interpretation of air...
Report Number: 67/2018Research Report -
Tabley Old Hall and Moated Site, Nether Tabley, near Knutsford, Cheshire: Architectural and Archaeological Investigation
Tabley Old Hall, the seat of the Leicester family of Tabley from the late 14th century, stands on a small island created from a peninsular on the north...
Report Number: 47/2017Research Report -
Tintagel Castle, Cornwall: X-ray Fluorescence analysis of metalworking waste and a pewter ring
A small number of objects recovered during the Tintagel Castle Research Project (TCARP2017) excavations in 2017 were sent to Fort Cumberland to determine...
Report Number: 56/2018Research Report -
Great Weston Heritage Action Zone, Weston super-Mare, North Somerset, Aerial Investigation and Mapping Project
The Weston-super-Mare Heritage Action Zone is a partnership project to promote awareness of the historic environment to inform the delivery of heritage-led...
Report Number: 50/2018Research Report -
Zara (originally Boots the Chemist), 2-10 Pelham Street and 2 High Street, Nottingham: Research and Investigation
The impressive store occupying the corner of Pelham Street and High Street in Nottingham, currently occupied by the fashion retailer Zara, was built by...
Report Number: 73/2018Research Report -
St Nicholas’ Church, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Radiocarbon dating and wiggle-matching of timbers from the roof of St Margaret’s Chapel
Radiocarbon dating and wiggle-matching of the 302 year undated site sequence NWCCSQ01 derived from tree-ring analysis has conclusively shown that the timbers...
Report Number: 77/2018Research Report -
EXAMINATION OF MOULD FROM PRUDHOE CASTLE, NORTHUMBERLAND
Report Number: 4818Research Report -
GEOPHYSICS FROM EASTON DOWN
Report Number: 2257Research Report -
The Bede House, Church Lane, Lyddington, Rutland: Tree-Ring Analysis of Oak Timbers
Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on 100 of the 113 samples obtained from this building, producing five dated site chronologies comprising 81...
Report Number: 37/2015Research Report -
Clifford Castle, Clifford, Herefordshire: Archaeological, Architectural and Aerial Investigation and Survey
This report presents the results of a programme of archaeological, architectural and aerial survey undertaken on the site of Clifford Castle and its environs....
Report Number: 69/2018Research Report -
Tidal Range Developments: Considerations for the Historic Environment
This report has been published at a time when the UK Government is still to offer a formal response to the Hendry Review or to confirm a power purchase...
Report Number: 39/2018Research Report -
Southern England: A Review of Animal Remains from Saxon, Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Sites
Presented here is a zooarchaeological review of assemblages from 323 sites within southern England. Data are summarised for each of the major periods (Saxon,...
Report Number: 8/2017Research Report -
Windsor Castle, Excavations in the Round Tower (Site 431) 1989-92 and The Upper Ward (Site 485) 1992: A Preliminary Report on the Fish Remains
This preliminary report concentrates on the fish recovered from selected contexts dated to the 11th to mid 14th centuries from excavations in the Round...
Report Number: 21/2018Research Report -
A Catalogue of Archaeological Features on Big Moor and Ramsley Moor, Baslow and Holmesfield, Derbyshire
This Catalogue has been produced to complement the survey report 'An Archaeological Survey of the Landscape on Big Moor and Ramsley Moor, Baslow and Holmesfield,...
Report Number: 98/1998Research Report -
A Causewayed Enclosure on Combe Hill, Eastbourne, East Sussex: An Earthwork Survey by The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England - Enclosure and Industry in the Neolithic
In early March 1995 the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England surveyed the well-preserved earthworks of a causewayed enclosure on Combe...
Report Number: 71/1995Research Report -
A 'Red Hill’ at Canvey Island, Essex – East Thames Corridor Project
During June 1994, staff from the RCIIME Cambridge Field Office surveyed a 'red hill' at NGR TQ 7795 8425, the last known surviving site on Canvey Island,...
Report Number: 76/1994Research Report -
An Archaeological Survey of the Landscape on Big Moor and Ramsley Moor, Baslow and Holmesfield, Derbyshire
The subject of this survey is an area of unimproved moorland (centred at c. 427300 375600), extending from White Edge eastwards and including part of...
Report Number: 99/1998Research Report -
An Earthwork Site on Western Dartmoor, Devon
Earthworks survey of Brentor was carried out in June 2003 and March 2004 using dual frequency proportional GPS. A base station was established on the...
Report Number: 136/2003Research Report -
GEOPHYSICS FROM HEMLEY HILL, PRINCES RISBORO
Report Number: 2258Research Report -
Landscape Assessment at Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire
Desk-top report on the historic environment of Apethorpe Hall was undertaken as part of a much wider and more intensive investigation of the building...
Report Number: 103/2005Research Report -
Archaeological Investigation and Analytical Field Survey on Cawood Castle Garth, Cawood, North Yorkshire
English Heritage took part in an analytical field survey at 1:1,000 scale of earthworks surviving on the Garth and carried out a rapid review of evidence...
Report Number: 104/2005Research Report -
RCHME - Avebury Project Medieval And Post Medieval Assessment: Parish Summary Sheet
Parish Summary Sheets of multiple sites Avebury Wiltshire....
Report Number: 104/1996Research Report -
Badsell Park Farm, Matfield, Kent: An Archaeological Survey by the RCHME
An archaeological survey was undertaken by the RCHME at Badsell Park Farm (TQ 648430) near Matfield in Kent, on the borders of Brenchley and Pembury parishes,...
Report Number: 127/1993Research Report -
Bailiff Wood: Forest Industries Archaeological Survey Report
RCHME Newcastle surveyed at 1:2500 a representative sample of the woods, some 20 hectares in all, centred at SD 304 934, to the north of Hill Gill, largely...
Report Number: 134/1997Research Report -
An Earthwork Survey and Investigation of the Parkland at Battle Abbey, East Sussex
Survey and field investigation was carried out by G Brown, M Bowden. S Connor, and D Field over a period of fifteen days. It was undertaken in two phases:...
Report Number: 157/2002Research Report -
Bellshiel Law Long Cairn
The field investigation was undertaken by David McOmish and Cathy Tuck during winter 2002 and 2003. The measured survey of the Belishiel Law long cairn...
Report Number: 111/2004Research Report -
British Camp Herefordshire Beacon
The present survey was undertaken by Archaeological Investigation, English Heritage, as part of the Malvern Hills AONB Archaeological Survey Project 'British...
Report Number: 124/2000Research Report -
Broadmayne Bank Barrow Dorset
English Heritage field investigation of a bank barrow and its environs, on Broadmayne, Dorset. The Broadmayne bank barrow forms part of a wider complex...
Report Number: 151/2001Research Report -
Burton Hall An Archaeological Survey Report
Survey to establish earthwork remains of further settlement, probably of medieval date, on the south-eastern side of the site of Burton Hall, and surrounding...
Report Number: 100/1998Research Report -
MEDIAEVAL SHELL TEMPERED POTTERY FROM LINCOLN
Report Number: 2260Research Report -
Caesar's Camp, Bromley, Greater London
In July 1997 the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England undertook an archaeological survey in the grounds of Holwood House, Bromley,...
Report Number: 102/1998Research Report -
Rural Settlement in England: Analysing Environmental Factors and Regional Variation in Historic Rural Settlement Organisation Using Regression and Clustering Techniques
This report shows how it is possible to collate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data for historic settlement nucleation and dispersion with a range...
Report Number: 72/2014Research Report -
Richmond Castle and Environs: Aerial Investigation & Mapping Report
This report summarises the results of a landscape analysis of Richmond Castle and its wider setting from aerial photographs held in the Historic England...
Report Number: 78/2018Research Report -
Bouldnor Cliff, Isle of Wight: Tree-Ring Analysis and Radiocarbon Wiggle-Matching of Subfossil Oaks
Analysis of all samples taken from Bouldnor Cliff between 2000–5 has led to the construction of two site means, Bouldnor_T11 and Bouldnor_T3. These site...
Report Number: 73/2015Research Report -
Verlucio and Environs Project, Bromham House Farm and Villa, Bromham, Wiltshire: Report On Geophysical Surveys, January and March 2018
Caesium magnetometer and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys were conducted over a series of cropmarks at Bromham House Farm and the presumed location...
Report Number: 64/2018Research Report -
Low Ham Roman Villa, High Ham, Somerset: Report on Geophysical Survey, July 2018
Caesium magnetometer and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys were conducted at Low Ham Roman villa, High Ham, Somerset, to address a casework request...
Report Number: 72/2018Research Report -
A Review of Historic Environment Records: Enhancement Projects for the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
This report presents a review of seven Historic Environment Record (HER) enhancement projects funded under the National Heritage Protection Plan (NHPP)...
Report Number: 71/2018Research Report -
GEOPHYSICS FROM LAKE FARM, DORSET
Report Number: 2262Research Report -
Developing an Ecosystems Approach: Dry Stone Walls
Dry stone walls are an integral part of the landscape and cultural heritage of the PDNP and other upland areas of England, marking routeways, territorial,...
Report Number: 43/2018Research Report -
Burghley Park, St. Martin’s Without, City Of Peterborough: Report on Geophysical Survey, April 2018
A Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey was conducted at Burghley Park, St. Martin’s Without, City of Peterborough, as part of the “Going Over Old Ground”...
Report Number: 76/2018Research Report -
Rotherley, Cranborne Chase, Wiltshire. Analysis of wood charcoal remains from the Pitt Rivers Archive, The Salisbury Museum
During excavations in the late 1880s led by General Pitt Rivers at the Romano-British villa of Rotherley, Wiltshire, wood charcoal was recovered; examination...
Report Number: 58/2018Research Report -
Woodcutts Common, Cranborne Chase, Dorset. Analysis of wood charcoal remains from the Pitt Rivers Archive, The Salisbury Museum
During excavations in the late 1880s led by General Pitt Rivers at the Romano-British villa of Woodcutts Common, Dorset, wood charcoal was recovered;...
Report Number: 57/2018Research Report -
Ramsgate, Kent: Historic Characterisation of Ramsgate
A historic characterisation of Ramsgate and its land and sea environs has been undertaken as part of this Ramsgate Historic Character project, funded...
Report Number: 48/2018Research Report -
REPORT ON POLLEN ANALYSIS OF PEAT NEAR HOUSESTEAD FORT, HADRIAN'S WALL NORTHUMBERLAND
Report Number: 2263Research Report -
First World War National Factories: An Archaeological, Architectural and Historical review
The First World War National Factories were under the direct control of the Ministry of Munitions producing vital war material, everything from wooden...
Report Number: 76/2015Research Report -
Historic Watermill Landscapes: A National Overview
Note that this report summarises the position at the end of 2017 and makes no attempt to anticipate changes in legislation or guidance. Rather than watermill...
Report Number: 17/2018Research Report -
A Survey of Fees for the Transfer of Archaeological Archives in England
This is a report from an Historic England funded project focused on identifying, collating and exploring the setting, calculation and use of deposition...
Report Number: 3/2019Research Report -
SOME SKULL FRAGMENTS FROM BILLINGBOROUGH, LINCOLNSHIRE - AN ADDENDUM TO AML REPORT NO 3021
SOME SKULL FRAGMENTS FROM BILLINGBOROUGH, LINCOLNSHIRE - AN ADDENDUM TO AML REPORT NO 3021...
Report Number: 4261Research Report -
Soft Capping on Ruined Masonry Walls
The motivation for initiating this research in the 1990s was to find an answer to the extremely high costs of repairing and maintaining hard caps, a number...
Report Number: 88/2018Research Report -
Marden Henge, Marden, Wiltshire: Optical Dating of Sediments
Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of the organic-poor sands immediately adjacent to the late Neolithic henge bank at Marden demonstrated...
Report Number: 75/2018Research Report -
Breckland: Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey of part of the Norfolk and Suffolk Breckland Region (Stage 1)
Breckland is a distinctive region of East Anglia straddling the Norfolk and Suffolk border. It has long been known as an area of high archaeological potential...
Report Number: 66/2018Research Report -
TARRABY, CUMBRIA: ROMAN GRASS CUTTINGS
Report Number: 2264Research Report -
ANIMAL BONES FROM EXCAVATIONS AT ANNETWELL STREET, CARLISLE, 1982-4 PERIOD 3: THE EARLIER TIMBER FORT
Approximately 9,000 hand-recovered and 4,000 sieved fragments of animal bone from a Roman (Flavian) timber fort were recorded and analysed in detail....
Report Number: 132/1991Research Report -
SOUTH YORKSHIRE DENDROCHRONOLOGY. A PROGRESS REPORT
Report Number: 2511Research Report -
TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF TIMBERS FROM CHIGBRORUGH FARM, ESSEX
Tree-ring analysis of seven oak samples from a Roman well produced no dates because the timbers had insufficient rings. Two out of three samples from...
Report Number: 105/1991Research Report -
Hungerford Common, Freeman’s Marsh and Environs: Aerial Survey and Investigation Special Project
The Hungerford Common project involved the transcription, interpretation and recording of all archaeological features visible on aerial photographs for...
Report Number: 105/2005Research Report -
Conserving Stained Glass Using Environmental Protective Glazing
Because stained-glass windows form part of the building envelope – separating the internal and external environments – they are uniquely vulnerable to...
Report Number: 43/2017Research Report -
Baker's Hole SM and SSSI Field Survey (Area B) closure report: Temperate Bed vulnerability, management priorities and collation of specialist analyses
This report is the final project closure report for the Historic England project "Baker's Hole Field survey". The primary aims of the project were to...
Report Number: 86/2018Research Report -
Rievaulx Abbey, Helmsley, North Yorkshire: Archaeological Survey and Investigation of the Precinct
This report is based upon the results of unpublished fieldwork at the medieval Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx in North Yorkshire undertaken in 2015 by Historic...
Report Number: 7/2019Research Report -
CRAWLEY EDGE, STANHOPE, WEARDALE: BOTANICAL
Report Number: 2265Research Report -
Eden Petteril Caldew Transect Air Photo and Lidar Mapping and Interpretation
The Eden Petteril Caldew Transect Air Photo and Lidar Mapping and Interpretation Project (EPC) was funded by Historic England and undertaken by Alison...
Report Number: 5/2019Research Report -
East Farm, Bradford Abbas, Dorset. Report on Geophysical Survey, September 2018
Caesium magnetometer and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys were conducted at East Farm, Bradford Abbas, Dorset, to assist in the re-assessment of...
Report Number: 12/2019Research Report -
Little Doward, Ganarew, Herefordshire: Analytical Earthwork Survey of the Hillfort and Rapid Landscape
The earthworks of Little Doward hillfort and its associated landscape were surveyed in January to March 2009, at the request of and with the assistance...
Report Number: 72/2009Research Report -
Wood identifications and recording of wooden remains recovered from the London wreck between 2014 and 2016
Nearly 300 wood identifications were carried out on wooden artefacts recovered from the wreck of the London during phases of surface recovery and archaeological...
Report Number: 15/2019Research Report -
CHARRED AND MINERALISED PLANT MACROFOSSILS FROM PADDOCK HILL, OCTON, THWING, YORKSHIRE
Seven samples from the Late Bronze Age Ring Fort at Thwing produced early evidence for the cultivation of spelt wheat, in addition to emmer, bread-type...
Report Number: 14/1993Research Report -
Mapping Pests and Diseases in Historic Parks and Gardens
The UK’s treescapes face huge challenges with the invasion of new pests and diseases brought about by increased global trade and travel. We need to understand...
Report Number: 30/2018Research Report -
ANALYSIS OF THE WINDOW GLASS FROM EYNSHAM ABBEY, OXFORDSHIRE
856 fragments of window glass, of which 132 were painted, were recovered during the excavation of Eynsham Abbey in Oxfordshire. 74 samples of the window...
Report Number: 13/2002Research Report -
CANONS ASHBY, Northamptonshire An archaeological survey by the RCHME
An archaeological survey of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire SP 55 SE...
Report Number: 92/1992Research Report -
Castle Neroche, Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset: An Earthwork Survey by English Heritage
Castle Neroche is a complex defended earthwork site, situated in the north-eastern sector of the Blackdown Hills AONB in Somerset. The earthworks comprise...
Report Number: 137/2003Research Report -
BERWICK-UPON-TWEED: BOTANICAL
Report Number: 2266Research Report -
REPORT ON GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY CHARLTON VILLA
Geophysical survey of Charlton St Peter, survey techniques would help ascertain whether there is any evidence for buildings associated with the artefactual...
Report Number: 128/1993Research Report -
CHILWORTH GUNPOWDER WORKS, SURREY
English Heritage to undertake an archaeological survey of the former Chilworth Gunpowder Works site. Survey work was carried out over two seasons, between...
Report Number: 138/2003Research Report -
CLARE CAMP, CLARE, SUFFOLK; AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY BY THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE HISTORICAL MONUMENTS OF ENGLAND
Archaeological earthwork survey of CLARE CAMP, CLARE, SUFFOLK....
Report Number: 129/1993Research Report -
COBHAM HALL, COBHAM, KENT THE NORTH PLEASURE GROUNDS
English Heritage (EH) carried out survey and analysis of earthworks in the North Pleasure Grounds at Cobham Hall (Kent). The investigation, which forms...
Report Number: 106/2005Research Report -
LADY DARNLEY'S GARDEN AND THE SOUTH PLEASURE GROUNDS
English Heritage (EH) carried out survey and analysis of earth works in two areas of the post-medieval gardens at Cobham Hall (Kent). The investigations,...
Report Number: 139/2003Research Report -
REPORT ON GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY COMPTON
Gradiometer and resistance surveys were carried out to try to locate building remains and areas of domestic activity within the earthwork complex immediately...
Report Number: 130/1993Research Report -
REPORT ON GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY COOMBE DOWN Wiltshire
To investigate the area beyond the visible earthworks with a view to assessing the original extent of the Romano-British settlement and hence the degree...
Report Number: 93/1992Research Report -
Cosgate Hill, Countisbury, Devon An archaeological survey by English Heritage
Fieldwork carried out by English Heritage in partnership with the Exmoor National Park Authority (ENPA) has recorded a small but interesting group of...
Report Number: 158/2002Research Report -
BOTANICAL REPORT ON SILT FROM A MEDIEVAL CASTLE DITCH, BLACKGATE, NEWCASTLE, 1976
Report Number: 2267Research Report -
COTHELSTONE MANOR AND COTHELSTONE HILL, SOMERSET: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY
The archaeology of Cothelstone Hill. Cothelstone Manor, Terhill Park and Cothelstone Park was considered as part of the English Heritage survey of the...
Report Number: 112/2004Research Report -
COURT HOUSE, EAST QUANTOXHEAD, SOMERSET A Jacobean manor house and its surrounding landscape
Cowl House, East Quantoxhead was the focus of a detailed archaeological investigation and a brief architectural assessment carried out by staff from English...
Report Number: 113/2004Research Report