Project Title: The (re-)making of the North Sea world: politics, trade and long-distance interactions between Anglo-Saxon England and Merovingian Gaul in the 'long' seventh century

My project investigates interactions between Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Gaul in the seventh century th…

I previously worked for the scheme as an intern in both Suffolk and Lancashire/Cumbria and am currently working on my PhD, looking at small metal artefacts from the early Medieval period in Suffolk. I am looking at whether changes in the material expression of identity can tell us about t…

The proposed research will examine metalwork, principally brooches, from Viking-Age England to provide new insights into the impact of Scandinavian settlers on Anglo-Saxon society and economy. Over the last 20 years, metal-detected finds reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme have tr…

I am about to begin my PhD at the University of Cambridge. My research focuses on comparable societal developments in the LIA and early Roman periods in East England and areas across the North Sea (the Netherlands, Belgium, and Northern France).

Higher level access to the PAS data…

I am currently undertaking PhD research at University of Chester under the supervision of Dr Caroline Pudney. My research focuses upon localised variance and hybridity within the Roman Empire in Britain, the Rhine/Danube and Syria. Acccess to components of your database at 'research level…

My working title is Bronze Age Metal in North Wales.

My ‘database’ is being built at http://bametal.drserv.org

To-date I have recorded metal finds reported by antiquarians as well as those recorded in archaeological journals and…

I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Leicester working on medieval peasant seals with the working title of 'Peasant Seals and Sealing Practices, c.1200-c.1500'. The overarching aim of my thesis is to socially and culturally e…

I am a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford researching the movement and distribution of polished Neolithic stone axes originating from sources in Cumbria and North Wales. Langdale (Group VI) and Graiglwyd (Group VII) are the most numerous and widely-distributed Neolithic ston…

Canterbury Christ Church University research in the area around Wroxeter, Shropshire which involves digitising a number of landscape features identified through the use of colour infra-red aerial imagery, to help associate a possible date and function for these features, investigati…

Rachel Wilkinson is carrying out a PhD at Leicester looking at non-coin Iron Age Hoards in Britain.

I am researching Anglo-Saxon settlements incorporating the name-element worth primarily in Mercia. These places seem to survive at proportionally higher level than other settlement names.

They cluster near the junctions of major historic and prehistoric boundaries or on strategic …

Stephanie Smith (former Sussex FLO) will be exploring the connection between ancient coastal and island communities and the English Channel with a PhD project titled, ‘Settlement and Connectivity in the English Channel: the Isle of Wight and its setting in the Iron Age and Roman period…

Warwick University

Samantha Rowe is currently researching the condition of metal artefacts in ploughsoils across England and Scotland. Her PhD is based at the University of Huddersfield, funded by AHRC and sponsored by Historic England.

Many archaeological sites consist of material residing in ploug…

David Swan is doing a PhD in Iron Age Numismatics at the University of Warwick. His current project evaluates Iron Age coin imagery and use in the Eastern and Southern Kingdoms, with comparisons to coin types throughout the rest of the UK included. While previous explanations have been pr…

~~Brief Synopsis of D. Lawrenson’s PhD research work and need for access to the PAS data base.

I have been studying part-time for a PhD at the University of East Anglia since January this year. My research topic is the history of markets in England in the long duree, from the ea…

Alson Bazley is hoping to extend her MA thesis (Royal Holloway, University of London) on Medieval mirror cases in the Museum of London, to a PhD looking at their distribution across Britain.

I am a PhD student at the University of East Anglia and I my research topic is: religious identity in East Anglia c.800-1100. Due to the scarcity of documentary evidence for this period, one of my main sources is the St Edmund Memorial coinage. As part of my thesis I am hoping to produce …

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I'm currently the holder of a Collaborative Doctoral Award with the University of Southampton and The British Museum. My research is entitled Pattern and Purpose in Iron Age East Yorkshire and looks at a wide variety of different plain and patterned objects from the region dating to 400BC…