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I'm the Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Durham University working on the Leverhulme funded Project Ancient Tin. Part of our project is mapping prehistoric finds in Cornwall and Devon.<\/p>\n\n
Referee: Ben Roberts (Durham University)<\/p>", "start":"2021", "finish":null, "investigator":"Alan WIlliams", "level":"8", "updated":"2022-01-07 12:17:56", "type":"Major research (Leverhulme funded)", "fullname":"Sam Moorhead", "email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org", "userid":"491", "fn":"Sam Moorhead" }, { "id":"790", "title":"Did British Tin Sources and Trade make Bronze Age Europe", "description":"
Chemical and Isotopic analysis of tin ores from across South-West Britain to compare with bronze objects to see to what extent it helped power massive technological and cultural change across Europe.<\/p>\n\n
Dr Ben Roberts and Dr Alan Williams (Durham University)<\/p>\n\n
Referee: Sam Moorhead (British Museum)<\/p>", "start":"2020", "finish":null, "investigator":"Ben Roberts", "level":"8", "updated":null, "type":"Major research (Leverhulme funded)", "fullname":"Sam Moorhead", "email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org", "userid":"491", "fn":null }, { "id":"642", "title":"Later Prehistoric Metalwork in Britain", "description":"
I am working on a Leverhulme Trust funded research project based at Bristol University investigating later prehistoric metalworking in Britain (approximate duration of research: until end 2018). This includes study of the landscape context of metal objects related to metalworking.
\nI am an honorary research fellow at Bristol and Leicester Universities and Head of Post-Excavation at Oxford Archaeology (South)<\/p>\n\n
Referee: Dr Joanna Bruck
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"title":"\u2018Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households, 1300-1600\u2019",
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I am currently working as an Associate Researcher on a Leverhulme Trust Funded Project (here is a link to our blog: medievalobjects.wordpress.com - Cambridge and Cardiff Universities) during which we will be using PAS data to look at the distribution of medieval objects at particular sites where we have identified potential compatabilty between excavated and metal detected evdience. The project is running over three years (Nov 2016 - Nov 2019), and we are just coming to the end of the first year (end of Nov).<\/p>\n\n
Referee: Dr Ben Jervis (Cardiff University)<\/p>", "start":"2016", "finish":"2019", "investigator":"Alice Forward", "level":"8", "updated":null, "type":"Major research (Leverhulme funded)", "fullname":"Sam Moorhead", "email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org", "userid":"491", "fn":null }, { "id":"529", "title":"Flood and Flow: Place-names and the Changing Hydrology of River Systems", "description":"
'Flood and Flow: Place-Names and Changing Hydrology of River Systems'.
\nThe work will draw initially from place-name evidence, and the project is the first to study river flooding and water\/land management during the period c.700-1100AD, the last major episode on record of rapid warming and weather extremes. This critical period of climate change is targeted because it offers the closest parallels for our own times, since this was when most now-occupied centres of population were first established, and when these places gained their names.
\nThis project will also assess how historic place-names, archaeology, and palaeoenvironmental evidence might be effectively marshalled to map riverine landscapes during periods of rapid climate change. It will be questioned as to whether these names, laden with environmental information, in known locations still occupied today, remain valuable guides to understanding the nature of modern river flows, floodplain and wetland environments, and human responses to living with and managing water across whole river catchment basins.
\nExtensive use of the Portable Antiquities Scheme databases and archives, specifically cartographic and Early Medieval artefactual information, will be essential to maximise the understanding of these landscapes on local and regional scales, and integrate critically with environmental and place-name evidence.<\/p>\n\n
(Dr Richard Jones, University of Leicester)<\/p>", "start":"2016", "finish":null, "investigator":"Susan Kilby", "level":"8", "updated":null, "type":"Major research (Leverhulme funded)", "fullname":"Sam Moorhead", "email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org", "userid":"491", "fn":null }, { "id":"527", "title":"Flood and Flow: Place-Names and Changing Hydrology of River Systems", "description":"
'Flood and Flow: Place-Names and Changing Hydrology of River Systems'.
\nThe work will draw initially from place-name evidence, and the project is the first to study river flooding and water\/land management during the period c.700-1100AD, the last major episode on record of rapid warming and weather extremes. This critical period of climate change is targeted because it offers the closest parallels for our own times, since this was when most now-occupied centres of population were first established, and when these places gained their names.
\nThis project will also assess how historic place-names, archaeology, and palaeoenvironmental evidence might be effectively marshalled to map riverine landscapes during periods of rapid climate change. It will be questioned as to whether these names, laden with environmental information, in known locations still occupied today, remain valuable guides to understanding the nature of modern river flows, floodplain and wetland environments, and human responses to living with and managing water across whole river catchment basins.
\nExtensive use of the Portable Antiquities Scheme databases and archives, specifically cartographic and Early Medieval artefactual information, will be essential to maximise the understanding of these landscapes on local and regional scales, and integrate critically with environmental and place-name evidence.<\/p>\n\n
(Dr Richard Jones, University of Leicester)<\/p>", "start":"2016", "finish":null, "investigator":"Ben Pears", "level":"8", "updated":null, "type":"Major research (Leverhulme funded)", "fullname":"Sam Moorhead", "email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org", "userid":"491", "fn":null }, { "id":"491", "title":"People and Place: The Making of the Kingdom of Northumbria AD 300-800", "description":"
Together with Dr Sarah Semple and Dr Brian Buchanan, I am working on a Leverhulme funded project at Durham University. Our project title is People and Place: The Making of the Kingdom of Northumbria AD 300-800. We will work primarily with burial data and GIS mapping and wish to use PAS data for reflection on finds distribution and in order to maximise the amount of data available - within a rather sparsely covered area. The project runs from September 2015 to August 2018.<\/p>", "start":"2015", "finish":"2018", "investigator":"Susan Harrington", "level":"8", "updated":"2016-08-09 13:52:24", "type":"Major research (Leverhulme funded)", "fullname":"Sam Moorhead", "email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org", "userid":"491", "fn":"Sam Moorhead" }, { "id":"490", "title":"Life in Early Medieval Wales", "description":"
I have just begun a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2015\u201318) to write a book, Life in Early Medieval Wales, to be published by Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n
Nancy Edwards is Professor of Archaeology at Bangor University.<\/p>", "start":"2015", "finish":null, "investigator":"Nancy Edwards", "level":"8", "updated":"2016-08-09 13:52:31", "type":"Major research (Leverhulme funded)", "fullname":"Sam Moorhead", "email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org", "userid":"491", "fn":"Sam Moorhead" }, { "id":"461", "title":"Travel and Communication in Anglo-Saxon England", "description":"
I am a Research Associate at the Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham, working on the project 'Travel and Communication in Anglo-Saxon England'. The project, a three-year interdisciplinary research project funded by The Leverhulme Trust, is a collaborative venture between the Institute of Archaeology at University College London and the Institute for Name-Studies, and runs from November 2014. The project team, which consists of archaeologists, historians, and place-name scholars, is working to reconstruct Anglo-Saxon England's overland route-system (and its intersections with the riverine route-system) using textual, landscape archaeological, and place-name evidence.<\/p>\n\n
I am primarily working with place-name and textual evidence (especially Anglo-Saxon charter boundary clauses) and recording this in a GIS. Access to accurate findspot data will allow further investigation of these routeways. Besides helping identify the courses of routeways that are only recorded at intervals along their routes in textual sources, interrogating the PAS database might allow further questions to be resolved. For instance, can destinations (trading sites etc.) that routeways served be identified? Can associated finds help us identify periods when routeways were in use? What can finds associated with routeways reveal about the type(s) of travellers who used them?<\/p>", "start":null, "finish":null, "investigator":"Eleanor Rye", "level":"8", "updated":null, "type":"Major research (Leverhulme funded)", "fullname":"Daniel Pett", "email":"dejp3@cam.ac.uk", "userid":"56", "fn":null }, { "id":"394", "title":"The PAS as a tool for archaeological research", "description":"
The PAS database provides a rich and detailed source of information that is increasingly being used by academic and professional archaeologists to study the past and to inform planning decisions. However, although there are numerous research projects that using the PAS database, the data is not being used to its full potential because there has been little detailed research on the nature of the data and some archaeologists do not use it for this reason.<\/p>\n
This project will explore the biases that are inherent in the PAS data, and investigate the extent to which the distribution of finds is representative of the historic distribution of activity. By providing a clear analysis of the factors underlying the dataset, this project will enable the rapidly growing PAS database to be exploited to the full in future research on the archaeology of the UK.<\/p>\n
The results of the project will be published as a report and a web resource, which together will enable the many researchers who use the data to understand the biases in the dataset.<\/p>", "start":"2012", "finish":"2015", "investigator":"Katie Robbins", "level":"8", "updated":null, "type":"Major research (Leverhulme funded)", "fullname":"Daniel Pett", "email":"dejp3@cam.ac.uk", "userid":"56", "fn":null }, { "id":"345", "title":"The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain", "description":"
The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain<\/p>\n
PPG 16 (Planning Policy 16) was implemented in 1990. It embedded the principle of developers paying for the mitigation of any damage, or loss to the archaeological heritage, that might result from their proposals by means of preservation by record. It was superseded by PPS 5 (Planning Policy Statement 5) in 2010 (which in turn has been superseded by the National Planning Policy Framework). As a consequence of PPG 16 a great deal of excavation has been carried out on the archaeology of Roman Britain, particularly on the rural settlement of England, but the majority of that work has not been published (the 'grey literature'), but is archived in local authority Historic Environment Records. The aim of the Leverhulme project is to research both unpublished and published sources to write a new account of the rural settlement of Roman Britain. The results will be published on an interactive web-site in collaboration with the Archaeology Data Service, University of York and in a book-length study.The project will run from April 2012 to September 2015.<\/p>", "start":null, "finish":null, "investigator":"Tim Evans", "level":"8", "updated":null, "type":"Major research (Leverhulme funded)", "fullname":"Daniel Pett", "email":"dejp3@cam.ac.uk", "userid":"56", "fn":null } ] }