| Publications & Archive: |
The Medieval Settlement Research Group holds back numbers of the Annual Reports for the following:
The Medieval Village Research
Group (MVRG)
The Moated Sites Research Group
(Moated SRG)
The Medieval Settlement Research Group (MSRG)
Backnumbers still available:
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MVRG: |
15 |
(1967) |
£0.50 |
28 |
(1980) |
£2.00 |
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21 |
(1972-3) |
£1.00 |
29 |
(1981) |
£2.00 |
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22 |
(1974) |
£1.00 |
30 |
(1982) |
£3.00 |
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23 |
(1975) |
£1.00 |
31 |
(1983) |
£3.00 |
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24 |
(1976) |
£1.00 |
32 |
(1984) |
£3.00 |
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25 |
(1977) |
£1.00 |
33 |
(1985) |
£3.00 |
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27 |
(1979) |
£2.00 |
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| Index | 1-33 | £2.00 | |||||
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Moated SRG: |
Bibliography (1982) |
£2.00 |
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| MSRG: | click here for contents lists | ||||||
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1 |
(1986) |
£5.00 |
12 | (1997) | Out of print | ||
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2 |
(1987) |
£5.00 |
13 | (1998) | Out of print | ||
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3 |
(1988) |
£5.00 |
14 | (1999) | £5.00 | ||
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4 |
(1989) |
£5.00 |
15 | (2000) | £5.00 | ||
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5 |
(1990) |
Out of print |
16 | (2001) | £5.00 | ||
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6 |
(1991) |
Out of print |
17 | (2002) | £5.00 | ||
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7 |
(1992) |
£5.00 |
18 | (2003) | £5.00 | ||
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8 |
(1993) |
£5.00 |
19 | (2004) | £5.00 | ||
| 9 | (1994) | £5.00 | 20 | (2005) | £5.00 | ||
| 10 | (1995) | £5.00 | 21 | (2006) | £5.00 | ||
| Index | 1-10 | £2.00 | 22 | (2007) | £5.00 | ||
| 11 | (1996) | Out of print | |||||
| Special Offers: | Set of available MVRG Reports and Index | £15.00 | |
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Set of available MSRG Reports and Index |
£65.00 |
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Postage in UK: |
For Orders under £10.00 add £2.00 p&p |
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For Orders between £10.00 and £64.00 add £8.00 p&p |
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Orders of £60.00 or over postage free |
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Postage outside UK: |
Payable (will be included on an invoice) |
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Paid-up members of the MSRG can deduct 10% from the final total. |
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These can be ordered with the appropriate remittance from:
Dr. R. E. Glasscock,
St John's College, CAMBRIDGE CB2 1TP
Cheques to be made payable to the "Medieval Settlement Research Group".
When ordering please include your name and address, including postcode (block capitals please).
Also available:
"Seasonal Settlement: Papers presented to the December meeting of the Medieval Settlement Research Group, 1993".
Published in the Vaughan Papers Series by the Department of Adult Education, University of Leicester, this contains the following articles:
| Introduction: transhumance and seasonal settlement | H.S.A. Fox |
| Transhumance in medieval Cornwall | Peter Herring |
| Seasonal settlements in medieval Gloucestershire: sheepcotes | Christopher Dyer |
| Medieval shielings on the Isle of Man: fact or fiction? | Gillian Quine |
| Aergi names as indicators of transhumance: fact or fiction? | Mary C. Higham |
Obtainable for £4.00 (including p&p) from
the Department of English Local History, Marc Fitch House, 5 Salisbury Road,
Leicester LE1 7QR. Cheques to be made payable to the "University of Leicester".
This guide to the Medieval Village Research Group's archive was published in the Medieval Settlement Research Group's Annual Report No. 5 1990, pp.5 - 6. The archive is deposited with National Monuments Record at Swindon (address and contact details below)
If you have an enquiry relating to specific sites or counties, this may be a good starting point.
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THE MEDIEVAL VILLAGE RESEARCH GROUP ARCHIVE: AN INTRODUCTION by Elizabeth Man The MVRG archive is a product of thirty five years of archaeological and historical research carried out between 1952 and 1987, principally by Professor M W Beresford, J G Hurst and other members of the group. The archive is now on permanent loan to the National Monuments Record. It is available for public consultation. The archive is organised alphabetically by site name within pre 1974 counties. It contains individual reference cards for over 5000 sites which have been classified, using historical and archaeological evidence, to distinguish wholesale depopulation from population contraction or shrinkage. Individual files are available for many sites, which may contain detailed reports, surveys or photographs. For every pre 1974 county there is also a file containing general information. There is a large collection of aerial photographs, both RAF verticals at a scale of 1: 10,560 and Cambridge University Archaeological Committee obliques, taken by Dr J K St. Joseph. For nearly all DMV sites in the MVRG archive the minimum information includes the National Grid Reference, 1 inch and 6 inch scale OS map sheet numbers, data from standard documentary sources, air photos, printed references, and brief reports of visits to the site to check on location, condition of the earthworks, standing buildings, and other features such as ridge and furrow. The material in the archive is a reflection of the state of research into medieval rural settlement at the time and as such it is heavily weighted towards those areas which then attracted most attention. Historical and archaeological evidence relating to the Midland counties, for instance, occupies a prominent place within the archive. The objectives of the archaeological evaluation of sites undertaken by the group were to gain protection for surviving monuments and to record archaeological evidence prior to its destruction. The archive therefore holds a unique archaeological record; excavation reports, watching briefs, field notes and photographs, earthwork surveys and in the case of ploughed sites, surface debris analysis notes. The documentary material in the archive is substantial and much of it has been integrated into the site files. It consists of extracts from Ancient Deeds, Feet of Fines, Inquisition Post Mortems, Minister's Accounts, Rentals and Surveys, the British Museum Additional Charters, Lay Subsidy Rolls, Poll Taxes and Hearth Taxes. The source material available for an individual site varies in both quantity and quality according to the depth of research carried out by members of the group. The archaeological and documentary material which has been assembled in the archive provides a basis for further research into a wide variety of issues in medieval rural settlement studies. As part of the archive, the MVRG also has a slide collection and various OS 1 inch scale maps: some of this archive has been microfilmed. There is also a small selection of reference books including, for example, "The Lay Subsidy of 1334, Records of Social and Economic History, New Series II", (Oxford University Press), edited by Robin E Glasscock. The former library of the group has now been transferred to the Local Studies Library, Leicester University. Much of the Manuscript material of Professor M W Beresford's published work has also been deposited in the archive. Fieldwork and examination of documentary sources over many years have combined to create a record of wide appeal, of interest not only to students and academics but also to the general public, local authority planning officers, archaeological units and local history societies. In 1987, the Medieval Village Research Group amalgamated with the Moated Sites Research Group to form the Medieval Settlement Research Group in order to address the wider issues of medieval rural settlement. At the same time a project was undertaken to create a computerised index to the MVRG archive. Information from the MVRG records was entered onto a specifically designed database, offering ease of retrieval and simplifying searches of the paper archive. To date it contains 3070 DMV's. For each site on the index there are five main categories of data, giving the following fields of information: 1. Location and Administration
2. Archaeological Information
3. Historical Information
4. Archaeological History
5. Bibliography
When information for a particular field is present within the archive this is indicated by a Yes or No. Specific or general information is retrieved from the database using an enquiry system. Searches can be made, for example, for sites which possess certain features or for DMV's within a county. It is possible to print the records selected in an enquiry in abbreviated or catalogue form. In addition, various reports are available from the index: 1. Summary report of sites by either pre 1974 or new county, containing the following information:
2. Catalogue of sites by either pre 1974 or present county. Full catalogues of all the data can be produced for each site. 3. Catalogue of single site by Primary Record Number (a computer generated number unique to each site) 4. Summary of DMV's (totals per county). The total number of sites in each pre 1974 county is entered onto the database. 5. Summary of DMV's (density per county). A table is produced giving the relative local frequency of DMV sites in the pre 1974 counties. The county acreage (c. 1951), number of sites and density per 10,000 acres are given. |
Reports can be supplied on request from NMR staff for a nominal charge. This may be particularly useful to those unable to make a personal visit to the archive:
National Monuments
Record
National Monuments Record Centre
Great Western Village
Kemble Drive
Swindon
SN2 2GZ
Tel.: 01793 414600
E-mail: info@rchme.co.uk
| To contact the Group | |