While substantial progress has been achieved in the research of clothing, textiles, and associated items over the last century, it has been the case that the body of research on the manufacturing, use, and impact of lace tags on material culture remains rather impoverished. Despite their …

My research is on early medieval royal vills in the Kingdom of Northumbria and its precursor states. Analysing the material signatures of these places as well as enabling comparison with the assemblages from the surrounding landscape. The PAS data will be examined alongside excavated evid…

I have recently discovered, through LiDAR analysis, the line of the Roman road between Donhead St Mary and East Knoyle in Wiltshire. I am collaborating with David Roberts (Cardiff University) on a paper that will describe the route of the road, and attempt to put the road into…

I am researching the prehistoric origins of the Leicestershire Salters Way that runs along the northern county border of Leicestershire with Nottinghamshire and onto the fen edge in Lincolnshire. This track is associated with the iron age production of salt at the fen edge and its transpo…

My research aims to:

use the PAS to try to confirm the Roman road network in Shropshire and the surrounding area explore postulated Roman routes in the area

Referee: Pet…

In 2016/17 The Society of Antiquaries awarded me funds to undertake a review of the archaeological and historical evidence for Old Sarum in the medieval period. The work as involved bringing together a digital archive of all unpublished archive material (inc. past excavations), re-assessi…

I am preparing a publication on the Warwickshire medieval town of Bretford dealing with a number of new sources of evidence in collaboration ith Michael Lewis. These include PAS finds, and as the topography of the town has been established from documentary an…

I am currently researching for publication a Romano-Celtic copper-alloy horse and rider figurine found by a metal detectorist in West Ilsley, Berkshire, in 1990. I want to try to place the object in an archaeological context by locating the find-spot in its wider archaeologica…

I am Emeritus Professor of Archaeological Science at Reading University and am involved in a number of archaeological research projects and have written 11 books and monographs and over 100 papers on archaeological research. Those for which PAS academic access is most relevant…

I'm looking to write a landscape scale history of Littleover in Derby and then publish it as a book. I've chosen to centre my research on St Peter's Church in Littleover, and outwards in a 12 km radius, concentrating initially on the period from the earliest finds in this area until 1100 …

To update my Masters dissertation from 2009 on the Roman bells from Britain, and increase our knowledge of their spatial and social distribution within the UK, comparing the range of sites to those from the greater Roman Empire and the Barbaricum that were previously looked at. Fu…

Colonisation and Community in the Vale of Pickering: exploring medieval settlement and lordship in Brompton, North Yorkshire

Looking out across the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, it is hard to imagine that it once comprised a diverse landscap…

Checking location of finds of Roman lead slingshots

Referee: Sam Moorhead

I am a Lecturer in Archaoelogy at Cardiff University. I am currently undertaking research on the Iron Age of South-east Wales amongst other projects. I am specifically researching a article on the Silures and a broader landscape study of Iron Age activity and material around the hillfort …

I am a professor of archaeology and art history, specialising in Roman religion and small finds, especially bronzes.

My 2009 book was on miniature votive offerings, and my most recent book on Roman cult images.

I used to have full access to the database, but have not used …

I am a private researcher working on a die study of Durotriges quarter staters. I am requesting upgraded access in order to get access to more accurate find spots to improve my GIS distribution analysis.

Referee: Dr John Talbot

I am a PhD student at the University of Birmingham researching Carceral Geography. I am also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Over the past 20 years, in my spare time, I have been researching some interesting earthworks in the south of the Isle of Wight in the Parish of…

I am Steve Hartgroves; I developed and managed the Cornwall and Scilly HER for Cornwall Archaeological Unit in Truro for 30 years until my retirement a few years ago. I am currently Chair of the Roman Cornwall Research Group, a sub-committe of the Cornwall Archaeological Socie…

Following the discovery of a Francisca (throwing axe) near Frome, I need to access all features of the database to locate other franciscas on the PAS and add these to known museum provenances to produce a distribution map, and do further analysis on francisca fabrication and use. I expect…

Some time ago I did research on typology and the big picture of regionalised buckle and belt fitting distribution during the late Roman-controlled period, but now want to examine some distribution on a much more localised scale.

Referee: Dr Sam Moorhead (B…