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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 nearly ubiquitous presence in clothing from the 8th century on, little to nothing is known about their actual manufacturing and their impact on the material culture of the societies they are found in. Lace tags are items that are in some way used to finish the end of laces (such as shoelaces), thongs, or cords. They function to protect the cord from unraveling, easing passage through an eyelet of some sort, or adding weight to the cord. Later on, lace tags also became a non-functional item that showed the prestige of the person wearing them.<\/p>", "start":"2024", "finish":"2027", "investigator":"Gerald Livings", "level":"9", "updated":"2024-02-12 09:35:47", "type":"Personal research project", "fullname":"Claire Costin", "email":"ccostin@britishmuseum.org", "userid":"50", "fn":"Claire Costin" }, { "id":"966", "title":"Early medieval royal vills in the Kingdom of Northumbria and its precursor states", "description":"
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 evidence from royal vills and wider landscape analysis.<\/p>", "start":"2024", "finish":null, "investigator":"Michael Stevens", "level":"9", "updated":"2024-02-07 09:46:08", "type":"Personal research project", "fullname":"Claire Costin", "email":"ccostin@britishmuseum.org", "userid":"50", "fn":"Claire Costin" }, { "id":"935", "title":"Roman Road in Wiltshire", "description":"
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 its landscape context. As part of this, we would like to analyse and collate the distribution of finds in the area, and visualise using GIS spatial grouping and density techniques.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n I am a GIS Consultant with Ordnance Survey, and an active member of Avon Valley Archaeological Society. I have an MA in Landscape Studies (History and Archaeology) and an MSc in Geographic Information Systems, both from Leicester University.<\/span><\/span><\/p>",
"start":"2023",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Mike Gill",
"level":"9",
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"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
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"id":"928",
"title":"Salters Way (Leicestershire)",
"description":" 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 transport into central England. However, I am finding evidence of linked communities along this track in the early bronze age and even earlier.<\/p>\n\n This is a desk top study and the main sources have to date been from the HER and the ADS data sets. These data are being mapped using GIS on a LIDAR base that demonstrates how the archaeology is linked to the features in the landscape.<\/p>\n\n To date, I have been deriving data from the PAS by individual search. Information at parish level has so far been adequate but I now need to look more closely at the locations of some of the data particularly copper alloy items that seem to be aggregated into certain areas.<\/p>\n\n The work has been ongoing for the last 2 years and it is hoped to write the work up and publish when the study is complete. Estimated time to complete is 2 years from now.<\/p>\n\n Dr Stuart Evans BSc, PhD, MCB, MBA<\/p>\n\n Referee: Matt Beamish (Leics Arch and Nat Hist Soc)<\/p>",
"start":"2023",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Stuart Evans",
"level":"9",
"updated":"2023-03-01 12:42:32",
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":"Sam Moorhead"
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"id":"920",
"title":"Roman Roads in Shropshire",
"description":" My research aims to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n Referee: Peter Reavill (Herefordshire HER)<\/p>",
"start":"2023",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Paul Smith",
"level":"9",
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"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
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"id":"917",
"title":"Old Sarum and Environs",
"description":" 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-assessing the pottery sequences for the excavated areas and undertaking small-scale excavations in the west suburbs (from which a series of small finds are currently in the process of review with Sophie Hawke, Wilts FLO). I am now at the point of bringing to publication some of this work in an edited volume entitled, Tales from Two Cities: 1000 years of Settlement and Suburb in Old Sarum and Salisbury<\/em> (Oxford: Archaeopress, forthcoming<\/em>) - with full Open Access.<\/p>\n\n I would like to request research access to the dataset in order to see the spatial records for finds of medieval date in the region of Old Sarum. In particular, Alix Smith and colleagues conducted a controlled metal-detecting experiment in the fields to the SW of the monument. The fruits of this survey have been published, with Richard Henry, as 'A Controlled metal-detecting survey: Revising the Roman numismatic perspective of Sorviodunum'. This article focussed on the Romano-British period finds and how they relate to the known archaeological evidence (excavated and geophysical) for Roman Sorviodunum. However a body of evidence can be brought together to suggest that this location was also the site of a substantial medieval settlement of 11th-13th century date. As many finds of medieval date have been recovered from the various watching briefs and archaeological evaluations that have been conducted in the area, geophysical survey suggests a settlement morphologically akin to medieval settlements of a type and the toponyms 'Kingsbridge' and 'The Port Way' also suggest activity in the medieval period.<\/p>\n\n Alix Smith informs me that medieval-period finds were recovered from their survey in this area and I understand, historically, that an amateur group have also extensively detected an area on the line of the Roman road (now scheduled) further to the SW (although this material may not be spatially referenced).<\/p>\n\n There remain substantial research questions concerning the nature of medieval settlement at Old Sarum and where exactly the urban focus may have been. There are clearly concentrations of activity within the hill-fort, in 'suburbs' beyond the west and east gates and potentially along the Port Way. My work seeks to archaeological characterise these settlements and may very serve as the basis for extending the Scheduled area in order to protect what are clearly integral parts of an extensive medieval landscape.<\/p>\n\n I would therefore like to assess the distribution of medieval period small-finds around Old Sarum. I have no intention of producing distribution maps of these finds and exposing any locations. Rather, I would like to provide a brief overview of these finds and where they cluster as part of a general discussion. Naturally, a footnote would be provided referencing PAS and links to individual finds would also be provided where appropriate\/relevant. The volume I am producing will have full open-access and, as such, on-line readers will be able to click through to finds.org.uk.<\/p>\n\n I am hoping that the forthcoming publication above (alongside a proposed paper for Anglo-Norman Studies <\/em>and a forthcoming paper for the Antiquaries Journal<\/em>) will bring to a close the research work I have so far conducted on medieval Old Sarum and so would not imagine requiring research access beyond 2023 for this project.<\/p>\n\n Referee: Andrew Reynolds (UCL)<\/p>",
"start":"2023",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Alex Langlands",
"level":"9",
"updated":"2023-01-12 19:05:59",
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":"Sam Moorhead"
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"id":"914",
"title":"Bretford",
"description":" 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 and landscape evidence, it would be useful to know how the find spots relate to the details of the settlement and its inhabitants. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the longer term:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n I am engaged on a series of small projects on the history and archaeology of both rural settlements and towns in the midlands and wish to integrate the PAS finds with evidence from documents, earthwork surveys, fieldwalking, place-names, vernacular architecture etc. These micro studies will feed into a larger overview of the medieval English village. I have some experience of interpreting metal detector material from an overview of 'Peasants and coins' published in 1998, and a chapter on 'Peasants and towns' in a book published in 2022. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n Referee: Michael Lewis<\/p>",
"start":"2022",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Christopher Dyer",
"level":"9",
"updated":"2022-12-14 09:43:44",
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":"Sam Moorhead"
},
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"id":"904",
"title":"Horse and Rider figurine",
"description":" 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 archaeological landscape of relevant find-spots, sites and monuments. I am looking also at comparable finds both in Berkshire and beyond. I am in contact with West Berkshire Historic Environment Record, Newbury and the Ashmolean museums. My co-author is Emerita Professor Miranda Aldhouse Green of Cardiff University. I am thinking that Britannia <\/span><\/em>will be a suitable journal in which to publish this find.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n With Researcher status on the PAS database I will be able to study other finds I am involved with for publication in future.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n Dr Gilbert Burleigh, BA(Hons), PhD, DipMA, AMA, MCIfA, FSA<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n Referee: Sam Moorhead<\/span><\/span><\/p>",
"start":"2022",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Gilbert Burleigh",
"level":"9",
"updated":null,
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":null
},
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"id":"876",
"title":"Various Prehistoric Projects",
"description":" 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 include a a book on the Prehistory of the Severn Estuary, an area where I have been doing excavations and fieldwork since 1983. In my earlier monograph The Bronze Age in the Severn Estuary (2013, CBA Research Report) I included maps of Bronze Age metalwork distribution in the region alongside distributions of intertidal archaeology, settlement and field systems etc evidence. For the synthetic prehistory book I am planning I want to update these maps using PAS data. I appreciate the need to send draft of any maps, which will be at a small scale since my study area is 100 by 70km to the FLO's for the area in advance of submission for publication. I am also doing a smaller scale study of the archaeology of the river Cuckmere in Sussex, this was originally instigated as a contribution to the work of the Sussex Wildlife Trust in adding an archaeological and heritage dimension to the Trusts developing plans for nature conservation enhancement and managed realignment in the valley. There has been no previous synthesis of the archaeology of this river valley, though a previous project in the 1980s by the UCL field unit ended with limited publications. I am not sure yet how this project may develop, it depends partly on the future requirements of the Sussex Wildlife Trust, it might develop into a book or a paper for Sussex Archaeological Collections. I am also writing up work on the Long Man of Wilmington, Sussex for which PAS data will be helpful. Again I appreciate the need for any maps of distributions to be submitted to the FLO in advance of any submission for publication. Other roles that I have currently for which PAS academic access may be useful include President of the Sussex Archaeological Society (which provides a base for the Sussex FLO), Advisory Committee for Leverhulme Project Ebb and Flow on the Archaeology of river valleys, Advisory Committee of CitIzan Community Coastal Archaeology project based at MOLA, Trustee of Bexhill Museum. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n Referee: Duncan Garrow (Reading University)<\/p>",
"start":"2022",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Martin Bell",
"level":"9",
"updated":"2022-02-14 13:43:44",
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":"Sam Moorhead"
},
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"id":"837",
"title":"Littleover, Derbyshire",
"description":" 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 AD. Whilst Littleover has some Bronze Age and Iron Age archaeology, I hope that there will be much more found in this area, based on the distance that's walkable in a day.<\/p>\n\n Referee: Ian Mitchell, Chairman of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society<\/p>",
"start":"2021",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Tony Brookes",
"level":"9",
"updated":null,
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":null
},
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"id":"832",
"title":"Bells from Roman Britain",
"description":" 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. Further study will also increase the Corpus of Roman bells that was originally created.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n The orignal research looked at archaeological excavation reports as well as utilising the finds data from the PAS, and this update will follow the same pattern to see if there are any differences to the established type of patterning in relation to functionality of the site on which the bells were discovered.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Referee: Hella Eckardt<\/strong><\/p>",
"start":"2021",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Sandie Williams",
"level":"9",
"updated":null,
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":null
},
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"id":"829",
"title":"Colonisation and Community in the Vale of Pickering",
"description":" Colonisation and Community in the Vale of Pickering:<\/strong> exploring medieval settlement and lordship in Brompton, North Yorkshire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Looking out across the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, it is hard to imagine that it once comprised a diverse landscape of wetlands, woodlands, drylands and heathland: an environment that has been intensively exploited and occupied from the Romano-British period and before. The area around Brompton, on the northern edge of the Vale, appears to have been a favoured location, a place of transition where contrasting environments converged and offered a range of opportunities. This research seeks to unlock the history of settlement and lordship in Brompton from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. It will build on previous archaeological investigations carried out by the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society (SAHS) at Castle Hill and use this as a starting point for exploring wider issues concerning the nature, morphology and scope of medieval settlement practices in North Yorkshire (Evans et al.<\/em> 2016; Pearson, & Woods 2017; Pearson et al.<\/em> 2018, 2020). It will consider on how Scandinavian settlement in the late ninth and tenth centuries and Norman colonisation in the eleventh and twelfth centuries impacted on the existing rural landscape of the Vale, and the communities who occupied the land.<\/p>\n\n Referee:<\/p>\n\n Steven Mithen FBA<\/p>\n\n Professor of Early Prehistory<\/p>\n\n Department of Archaeology<\/p>\n\n University of Reading, UK<\/p>",
"start":"2021",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Elaine Jamieson",
"level":"9",
"updated":"2021-11-22 14:42:42",
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":"Sam Moorhead"
},
{
"id":"828",
"title":"Roman lead slingshots",
"description":" Checking location of finds of Roman lead slingshots<\/p>\n\n Referee: Sam Moorhead<\/p>",
"start":"2021",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Andrew Fitzpatrick",
"level":"9",
"updated":null,
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":null
},
{
"id":"816",
"title":"Iron Age South-East Wales",
"description":" 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 of Caerau, Cardiff.<\/p>\n\n Referee: Mark Lodwick, NMGW, Cardiff<\/p>",
"start":"2021",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Oliver Davis",
"level":"9",
"updated":"2021-04-29 13:43:09",
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":"Sam Moorhead"
},
{
"id":"814",
"title":"Roman cult offerings",
"description":" I am a professor of archaeology and art history, specialising in Roman religion and small finds, especially bronzes.<\/p>\n\n My 2009 book was on miniature votive offerings, and my most recent book on Roman cult images.<\/p>\n\n I used to have full access to the database, but have not used it in a while. Some recent research on Roman fingerrings would make it useful again.<\/p>\n\n Referee:<\/p>\n\n Dr Emma-Jayne Graham<\/strong> | Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr> School of Arts & Humanities, FASS, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>",
"start":"2021",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Philip Kiernan",
"level":"9",
"updated":"2021-06-22 16:23:28",
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":"Sam Moorhead"
},
{
"id":"813",
"title":"Coinage of the Durotriges",
"description":" 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.<\/p>\n\n Referee: Dr John Talbot<\/p>",
"start":"2021",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"David Robinson",
"level":"9",
"updated":"2021-04-19 12:45:11",
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":"Sam Moorhead"
},
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"id":"798",
"title":"Earthworks in Niton and Whitwell, IOW",
"description":" I am a PhD student at the University of Birmingham researching Carceral Geography. I am also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.<\/p>\n\n 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 Niton and Whitwell (my local area) and would like to complete this and write up a paper of my findings when commitments allow. Through the support of County Archaeologists Becky Loader and Frank Basford (now retired), I have in the past been able to access the SMR and other resources to see if there is any finds\/archaeology in the area that might help in my research. I am hoping that access to the hidden level of the PAS will also prove useful.<\/p>\n\n The lockdowns and my work have made it impossible for me to attend my local Archaeology Centre on the IoW to conduct research so I wanted to be able to access any records that might be available to me from my home. I totally understand the sensitivities of revealing the sites of finds\/historical interest that require a higher level of protection. I would of course adhere to any stipulations placed upon me to maintain the integrity of the PAS records and would not make specific references to findspots in my report. I would continue to draw upon Dr. Becky Loader's experience and support to make sure my paper presents any information I have drawn from the PAS in the correct way, before submission.<\/p>\n\n Referee: Rebecca Loader (IOW HER)<\/p>",
"start":"2021",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"WIll Thurbin",
"level":"9",
"updated":"2021-02-22 08:47:05",
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":"Sam Moorhead"
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"id":"793",
"title":"History and Archaeology of the parish of Perranarworthal",
"description":" 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 Society, and I also chair the parish's Local History Group.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n I have been researching the History and Archaeology of the parish of Perranarworthal, in order to compile the Historic Environment and Built Environment sections of our Neighbourhood Development Plan. I have drawn extensively on the HER, published sources and the grey literature, but there has been practically no fieldwork or research in the parish to date and information on the prehistoric period is particularly thin - we have just four or perhaps five prehistoric sites, and no evidence at all in these sources for a local Romano-British presence. I suspect that there will have been some detectorist's finds in the past few years which should allow me to make some broad conjectures about what might have been going on, but I have been unable to investigate further because of the limited searching criteria and absence of adequate location information in the Portable Antiquities database.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n I am requesting an upgrade to my account to enable me to extract details of all Romano-British metalwork (and any other artefact types) for my parish (Perranarworthal) and for the contiguous parishes of Feock, Kea, Gwennap, Mylor, Stithians, St Gluvias and Chasewater. A simple listing with Parish Name, Site Name, Site Location (8-fig NGR if poss), Artefact Type(s) and Date, sorted by Parish, would be extremely useful. A distribution map would be a real bonus. If this can be extracted in digital formats, this would be far more convenient than paper. I'm not sure what levels of access to the PAS database are possible, but I am sure that it will be possible to interrogate the data to retrieve this information in a useable format.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n I can't give a precise date for the completion of the project, which would be the official adoption of the neighbourhood plan I suppose, partly because we are dependant on several other organsiations including the County Council to do thier bits. We had hoped to complete in 2020, but Covid shot this target down and we now hope to get it over the line in 2021 - but thats by no means certain. It all depends on how we manage in the coming months.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n Referee: Anna Tyacke<\/span><\/span><\/p>",
"start":"2021",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Stephen Hartgroves",
"level":"9",
"updated":null,
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":null
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"id":"759",
"title":"Franciscas on the PAS Database",
"description":" 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 to continue work through 2020. My geophysical survey of the site is nearing completion, and you already have interim details of that.<\/p>\n\n Referee: Robin Holley (Bath and Counties Arch Soc)<\/p>",
"start":"2020",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"John Oswin",
"level":"9",
"updated":"2020-03-05 10:51:37",
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":"Sam Moorhead"
},
{
"id":"758",
"title":"late Roman Buckles and Belt Fittings",
"description":" 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Referee: Dr Sam Moorhead (British Museum)<\/strong><\/p>",
"start":"2020",
"finish":null,
"investigator":"Stuart Laycock",
"level":"9",
"updated":"2020-02-27 14:51:28",
"type":"Personal research project",
"fullname":"Sam Moorhead",
"email":"smoorhead@britishmuseum.org",
"userid":"491",
"fn":"Sam Moorhead"
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