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• Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from Eastgate, Beverley 1984
  04 June 1990

  Timbers from structures excavated at Eastgate, Beverley, during 1984 were sampled for tree-ring analysis with a view to providing a precise dating framework...

  Report Number: 48/1990
  Research Report
• Report on the Slags Recovered from Two Excavations in Gloucester
  31 July 1991

  The ironworking slags and other residues from two excavations in Gloucester are described and listed. Site 9/83 produced only background levels of slag....

  Report Number: 71/1991
  Research Report
• Roman Amphorae from the A5 and A49 Shrewsbury Bypass Archaeological Project 1989 to 1990
  04 December 1991

  A group of 358 amphorae sherds were examined. The majority were made up of the commonly found Spanish olive-oil vessel Dressel 20, with much lesser amounts...

  Report Number: 113/1991
  Research Report
• A Note on the Petrology of Iron Age Pottery from Preston Farm, Attingham, Shropshire
  07 January 1992

  Ten sherds of Iron Age pottery were thin sectioned and these displayed quite a variety of fabric types: sandstone, organic, quartz sand, mudstone, Malvernian...

  Report Number: 127/1991
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• Stanway, Essex: Plant Remains from Late Neolithic, Early Bronze and Middle Iron Age Pits and Late Iron Age Burials
  17 June 1992

  Early prehistoric pits produced only charcoal though one pit tentatively dated to the MIA included charred hazel nutshell, sloe and hawthorn fruitstones,...

  Report Number: 29/1992
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• A Note on the Petrology Of Some Late Saxon / Early Mediaeval Pottery From West Cotton, Northamptonshire
  19 October 1992

  Thin section analysis of a number of samples of pottery that are also being examined as part of the organic residue project by the Department of Biochemistry,...

  Report Number: 59/1992
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• Stansted Airport Car Park, Essex : Carbonised Plant Remains from Late Bronze Age And Early and Middle Iron Age Contexts
  19 October 1992

  This E/MIA enclosure, (with one Late Bronze Age pit) was one of a series of later prehistoric and Roman settlements excavated in advance of the construction...

  Report Number: 60/1992
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• Palynological Analysis of Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman Waterlogged Features from Slough House and Chigborough Farms, Near Heybridge, Essex
  19 February 1993

  Sequences of sediments from water holes and/or wells were subjected to palynological analysis. Description is made of changes in vegetation as the features...

  Report Number: 12/1993
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• PETROLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF IRON-AGE AND SAXON POTTERY FROM HARTIGAN'S GRAVEL PIT,CALDECOTTE AND BRADWELL ROMAN VILLA
  01 October 1977
  Report Number: 2369
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• Report on Geophysical Survey, March 1995: Raunds Area Project: Cropmark, Near Glebe Farm, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire
  26 July 1995

  A geophysical survey was carried out over the cropmark of a suspected barrow at Glebe Farm near Higham Ferrers, Northants in response to a request from...

  Report Number: 37/1995
  Research Report
• Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from Church Road, Croydon, Greater London
  07 September 1998

  The remains of an early crown-post truss, a rare survival in urban Croydon, were studied dendrochronologically. Previous study of the typology of this...

  Report Number: 52/1998
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• Tewitfield, North Lancashire: Report on Geophysical Survey, February and March 1998
  16 October 1998

  A geophysical survey was conducted over a site at Tewitfield, Lancashire, where finds of Viking hack silver had been found by metal detector. The aim...

  Report Number: 57/1998
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• Tower Hill, Goodmans Yard: The Animal Bones
  01 June 1980

  Tower Hill, Goodmans Yard: The Animal Bones...

  Report Number: 3122
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• Greyfriars, Dunwich, Suffolk: Report on Geophysical Survey, March and April 1994
  07 August 2000

  Coastal erosion at the village of Dunwich in Suffolk has led to the precinct of the Franciscan priory of Greyfriars being threatened with collapse into...

  Report Number: 43/2000
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• Deansway Archaeology Project, Worcester, Worcestershire: Archaeomagnetic Dating Report 1988 and 1989
  13 June 2001

  Between June 1988 and November 1989 the site of Deansway in central Worcester was excavated by the Hereford and Worcester Museums Service prior to redevelopment...

  Report Number: 45/2001
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• Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from Manor House, High Street and Kings Street, Fordwich, Kent
  20 January 2003

  Analysis undertaken on seventeen samples from beams at this property resulted in the construction of a single site sequence and two individually dated...

  Report Number: 7/2003
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• Evidence of Leather on Finds from Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries at St Stephen’s Lane and Buttermarket, Ipswich, Suffolk 1987 and 1988 and Boss Hall, Ipswich 1990
  26 February 2004

  Study of mineralised leather remains from two cemeteries of sixth- and seventh-century date sets new standards for recording this type of evidence....

  Report Number: 23/2004
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• CHESTER-LE-STREET EXCAVATIONS 1982-1983. A REPORT ON A SAMPLE OF CATTLE HORN CORES.
  01 May 1986

  Excavations in Chester le Street, 1982-1983, produced small quantities of animal bone. A number of trenches were excavated and recorded deposits from...

  Report Number: 4864
  Research Report
• Palaeolithic Archaeology of the Sussex and Hampshire Coastal Corridor: Amino Acid Racemization Analysis
  21 September 2004

  This report documents the attempts to conduct amino acid racemization analysis for age estimation. It is concluded that while Pennington is clearly younger...

  Report Number: 63/2004
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• Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dating of Quaternary Deposits from the Sussex/Hampshire Coastal Corridor
  27 March 2006

  A total of 43 samples were collected from different sites across the West Sussex coastal plain, the Western and Eastern Solent, the Test Valley, and the...

  Report Number: 20/2006
  Research Report