Research in progress using our data

There are 889 projects in progress that you can read about. If you're not listed here, then please do let us know and we'll add you.

Research projects in progress or completed
Primary investigator Title Level End date
Joshua Wain Millefiori studs

I would like to apply for an enhanced account / researcher rights to collect more data on the millefiori stud finds in the PAS for my dissertation at the University of Reading. This work builds upon the work of John Pearce and Sally Worrell.

Referee: Prof Hella Eckhardt

Undergraduate -
Shirley-Anne Clarke The South Chilterns

I am researching the South Chilterns for my MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology with Continuing Education, Oxford University.

Please may I have a higher level of access for my research. I am covering Pre-history and the early historic period and up to 11th century AD. I am lookin…

Masters degree -
Christopher Dyer Bretford

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…

Personal research project -
Charlotte Dawson Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project within Lincolnshire

The creation of a baseline for an archaeological report for a Development Consent Order application for a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project within Lincolnshire.

Referee: Jan Allen, Lincolnshire County Council

Desk based assessment -
Marco Martini The Battle of Stamford Bridge 1066

Research on the Battle of Stamford Bridge

Referee: Andrew Reynolds (UCL)

Masters degree 2023
Peta Fray Roman Villas in Gloucestershire

I am a Phd student at Birmingham University researching the location of Roman rural settlements in Gloucestershire. I am conducting analysis using known and suspected sites, utilising GIS to understand the specifics of site location. To bring in further data, especially around evidence of…

PhD level research -
Ben Jennings Student Supervision

Supervision of an Undergraduate Dissertation by Rhian (Ash) Wishton

Referee: Dr Cathy Batt (Bradford University)

Undergraduate -
Rhian (Ash) Whiston Roman Finger RIngs

I would like to study one of the suggested dissertation topics, regionalised studies of roman artefacts and focus on finger rings and would like to be able to access higher level mapping data to allow for spatial interrogation of differences in finds. The data will not be used outside of …

Undergraduate -
Daisy Bonsall Textile Economy of early Medieval England

I am a PhD student in the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Department at the University of Cambridge where I am researching the textile economy of early medieval England. The textile economy here refers to the process from production to distribution of textiles, including gift-giving and com…

PhD level research -
Paul Seddon Middle Thames Archaeology Partnership Projects

I am coordinating volunteer input into a number of collaborative projects being pursued through the Middle Thames Archaeology Partnership. (see https://research.reading.ac.uk/middle-thames-archaeology/). My input to t…

Archaeology society project -
Gilbert Burleigh Horse and Rider figurine

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…

Personal research project -
Olivia Russell 'In Life, Through Death: Bracteate Biographies and the Polysemy of Bracteates in Migration Period Europe'

I am a full-time PhD student at Newcastle University, and my research project's preliminary title is 'In Life, Through Death: Bracteate Biographies and the Polysemy of Bracteates in Migration Period Europe'. My supervisors are Dr James Gerrard (Newcastle University), Dr Scott …

PhD level research -
Carolyn Barnwell Malpas, Cheshire, Assessment

I am a Co-director of Community Interest Company Chapel Archaeology, based in Chester. We primarily work with community groups and local organisations to investigate, record and interpret their local history and archaeology. We are currently investigating the history and landscape around …

External project (UK only) -
Elisabeth Okasha Old English Inscriptions

Elisabeth is a Professor at the University of Cork who specialises in Old English Inscriptions.

Referee: Kevin Leahy

Desk based assessment -
Wyatt Wilcox The landscape contexts of Viking Age silver hoards in the northwest of England

I am an MSc in Archaeology student at the University of Oxford. I intend to use spatial data from the PAS alongside a range of other geospatial datasets for my dissertation 'The landscape contexts of Viking Age silver hoards in the northwest of England', which examines how and why the hoa…

Masters degree -
David Roberts The Roman South West

David Roberts, Lecturer at the University of Cardiff: I'd like research access to work on a range of research projects and excavations across SW England, especially southern Wiltshire, using PAS data to contextualise sites and finds. This work builds on my research with PAS at the South W…

External project (UK only) -
Helen Thomson Late Iron Age/Roman settlements on the Great Ridge, South Wiltshire

I am currently undertaking research for a Dissertation for my Archaeology MA at Cardiff University. My research project is to carry out a baseline assessment of the assemblages of four large nucleated Late Iron Age/Roman settlements on the Great Ridge, South Wiltshire. This objective is t…

Masters degree -
Liam Ricketts Early Anglo Saxon England

As part of my Master's thesis I am hoping to make use of location data from different types of Brooch's found from between 410-500/600, in concert with linguistic evidence to analyse the Early Anglo-Saxon Period, and more broadly to show what linguistics can provide archaeology and vice v…

Masters degree -
Gail Gibson 'What can PAS finds tell us about Scandinavian influence in Southern England?

I currently studying for the Advanced Diploma in British Archaeology at the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford. The title of my dissertation is, 'What can PAS finds tell us about Scandinavian influence in Southern England?' The historical accounts of the Viking…

Masters degree -
Elizabeth Reid Viking Weights in England

I am a student at the University of York studying for a Master's in Medieval Archaeology. I would like to request researcher access for work on my dissertation. My project looks to assess and determine the location, distribution, and concentration of Viking period weights in Engla…

Masters degree -

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