My research project is a study of Highlands Farm, Brightwell cum Sotwell Oxon, with particular focus on Brightwell Barrow and its role in the surrounding landscape. This is a dissertation project for the MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology at Oxford University. The project will be compl…

Modelling a spatial and social context for Anglo-Saxon coinage 960-1066 A.D, with an aim of studying and representing currency movement and their supporting institutions in the cultural heritage sectors. Using a small (and manageable) dataset within the PAS in exploring ways the sp…

I would like to become a research level user as I am currently writing a dissertation on bronze age metalwork and occupation areas in southwest England (Devon and Cornwall). In this work I intend on compiling a catalogue to advance on Susan Pearce's 1983 catalogue and discuss the implicat…

I am studying for an MA in Artefact Studies at UCL. For my dissertation I would like to study the distribution of Roman coins using PAS data from Shropshire, Staffordshire, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. This will enable me to complete a regional survey of the…

I am currently studing for an MA in Landscape Archaeology at the Univeristy of Sheffield. My dissertation is centred around locating the Anglo-Saxon village of Dadsley which is recorded in the Domesday book, but disapeared shortly after, following the establishment of the village of Tickh…

I wish to become a research level user to support my research for my MSc Dissertation which explores the relationship between developing tool use during the Bronze Age and the environment and settlement of upland landscapes, particularly Dartmoor, during this period. The work brings toget…

I have a GIS-based project that I wish to complete by May. I am planning to map out and polygonize the township and parish boundaries of Wirral, differentiating between natural boundaries (streams, coastlines, etc) and straight, man-made boundaries such as road-ways. I aim to use this as …

I am attempting to identify possible palace sites of King Edwin in Deira using various forms of both archaeological and historical data. I hoped to use the Portable Antiquity scheme to identify physical remains that could be linked to Edwin in the area. Combining this with other informati…

I will be looking at Bronze Jugs and Pateras focusing specifically on those with animal head decoration from Roman Britain. This is a very understudied area of Roman Britain with only two papers written by Eggers in the 60s and Nuber in the 70s. I intend to gather details of every known e…

I am studying for an MA in Archaeology at Reading University , taking modules in Roman Material Culture and the Archaeology of Money: Coins, Power and Society. Matreial available through research at the PAS will be very helpful for the essays and coursework.

My dissertation will look at the the first ten years or so of the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the impact the scheme has had on the Archaeology of the West Midlands region and its contribution to our understanding of the historical landscape, from its inception in 1997 to the last majo…

I am currently a Landscape Archaeology MA student at the University of Bristol. I am currently researching a number of sites for this course and will research more in the future. At present I am researching a site of a possible house platform in Middle Hope, Kewstoke and the Southmead Rou…

I am an MA student in Landscape Archaeology at Bristol University and need to access the PAS in connection with two of my assignments - a desk based assessment of Westbury Camp in Somerset and an HER enhancement of Woodspring Priory also in Somerset. For for both I need to see if there a…

I am researching Bronze Age hoards and important individual finds, and plan to place them in their social and landscape contexts to try and better understand them. I would like to have greater access to the database to analyse the spatial relationships between hoards and topographic and c…

I am doing a dissertation for an MA (Medieval History) at York University, on Anglo-Saxon and Viking assembly-places in the wapentakes of Agbrigg, Morley, and Osgoldcross. The deadline for submission is 19 September 2011. Precise identifications of findspots of material culture (such as t…

Survey of Papal Bullae around the West Midlands region and Wales - University of Exeter student volunteering with Shropshire and Herefordshire branch of PAS scheme. 

I am currently doing the MSc course in Applied Landscape Archaeology at Oxford University. I am engaged in producing a dissertation on the Bronze and Iron ages in East Surrey and West Kent. I would like as part of this to produce an updated distribution map of Celtic coins in this area br…

My research focusses on pilgrimage in the Medieval British landscape, examining hw the pilgrim utilised ther Medieval route network, distribution of pilgrim related material culture, and the sensory narrative of travel across the Medieval environment.

For MSc dissertation at UCL (completion Sept 2011) - a spatial analysis of iron age coin distribution in England. I'm investigating whether there is a link between iron age hill forts and coins, whether these coins are clustered around certain hill forts (eg. do the larger hill for…

I wish to become a research level user while undertaking research for my Master's dissertation. In brief, this is looking at Chalk Hillfigures (especially the Uffington Horse) in a landscape context. The data from the PAS database is of considerable importance in attempting understand the…