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We plan that this section will provide an opportunity for a wide range of organisations and individuals to publish research reports or discussion documents about archaeology in the South West. All will be freely available and downloadable. We hope to be able to provide the main articles from past issues of our own Journal, as well a full excavation reports and other documents. Please email us if you have something to offer. You can do this by clicking here or using the following address in your prefered email client: cbasw@britarch.ac.uk
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The Last of the Britons - Kings, thugs or Saints? This title is a collection of papers by leading experts of the field, harvested from the 2005 syposium held in Taunton Castle by the Council for British Archaeology South West and the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society.
It is essentially a summing up of current knowledge concerning the position of Somerset and its adjoining counties during the 'dark ages' and contains an interesting mixture of opinions and data from the disciplines of both archaeology and history.
Contributors include Mick Aston, Simon Draper, Peter Leach, Susan Pearce, Barbara Yorke, Chris Webster, James Gerrard, Anthea Harris, Keith Gardner, Richard Sermon, Gill Swanton, Larissa Fry and Andrew F. Smith.
Available in paperback priced £9.75 (inc. P&P), or as a free PDF download. All proceeds go to the CBA-SW. |
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The Land of the Dobunni is a collection of papers by some of Britain’s leading archaeologists.
Presented over the course of two symposia, this collection explores the transformation of the Iron Age territories of the Dobunni into Anglo-Saxon Gloucestershire and Somerset. Featuring contributions from leading experts in the period, this is fascinating material for anyone with an interest in transitional periods.
The collection features contributions from Mick Aston, Tim Darvill, Barry Cunliffe, Philip Rahtz, Michael Fulford, Peter Fowler, Teresa Hall, Carolyn Heighway, Martin Welch, Della Hooke, Richard Sermon and Tamara Rome.
Available in paperback priced £9.75 (inc. P&P), or as a free PDF download. All proceeds go to the CBA-SW. |
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The contents of the latest CBA-SW Newsletter are now available in Scribd format. Click here to view online. If you'd like to keep it as a PDF, you can also choose to download it to your computer.
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The contents of the latest CBA-SW Newsletter are now available in Scribd format. Click here to view online.
The full report of the 'new' Roman road in the Lox-Yeo valley featured in the Spring Newsletter is available here.
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John Matthews reports that a geophysics survey by ALERT in May 2009 identified a linear feature over 100m long and about 12m in width which has been interpreted as the remains of an agger of a Roman road.
Click here for report. |
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The contents of the latest CBA-SW Journal, with a selection of full articles. Each of the full articles can be viewed online, or can be downloaded as a PDF.
Click here to go to the Journal page. |
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Field survey and excavation located a probable Q-pit or whitecoal hearth; a first in Somerset?
Click here or on the image for the full report, or here to download the PDF directly. |
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Fieldwork and documentary research have demonstrated that 60 acres of Westbury Moor were drained by a bishop of Wells in the medieval period.
Click here or on the image for the full report, or here to download the PDF directly |
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Field investigation of over 90 old trees revealed that the park had been cleared of trees by 1700, creating a new farming landscape.
Click here on on the image for the full report, or here to download the PDF directly. |
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Magnetometry on Furlong Farm failed to locate a suspected Roman building.
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A discussion paper by the late Keith Gardner concerning a western extension to the Wansdyke and it's possible builders.
First published in Bristol and Avon Archaeology 1998.
Click here or on the image to go to the first page, or here to download the PDF directly.
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Fieldwork and resistivity identified a possible Bronze Age platform cairn and prehistoric field system.
Click here or on the image for the full report, or here to download the PDF directly.
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The Charterhouse Environs Research Team undertook earthwork and geophysical
surveys of three barrows in a small liner group.
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