Research Reports
Find research reports on specific buildings or sites, our large-area aerial survey mapping programme, and commissioned research.
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Dorset Heaths, South East Mixed (Wooded)
The Dorset Heaths lie to the south of the Dorset Downs and extend south of Poole Harbour to the prominent chalk ridge of the Isle of Purbeck. To the east,...
Report Number: 139/2020Research Report -
The National Mapping Programme: South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project: Results of NMP mapping
This report details the key findings from the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project carried out by staff from Cornwall County Council between September...
Report Number: 127/2011Research Report -
Upper Frome and Sydling Valleys, West Dorset, Dorset, Aerial Investigation and Mapping Project
This report presents the results of a systematic survey of a range of archaeological sites visible as earthworks, cropmarks and structures on aerial photographs...
Report Number: 43/2021Research Report -
MOHUN CASTLE, SOUTH PERROT, DORSET. REPORT ON GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY, JULY 1996
Resistivity survey was undertaken at Mohun Castle, South Perrot, Dorset, in an attempt to locate any surviving buried features associated with the former...
Report Number: 49/1996Research Report -
Dorchester Palisaded Enclosure, Greyhound Yard and Church Street, Dorchester, Dorset: Radiocarbon Dating and Chronological Modelling
Radiocarbon dating and chronological modelling of samples from the Dorchester palisaded enclosure, recovered from excavations at Greyhound Yard and Church...
Report Number: 3/2024Research Report -
Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Phase One Desk-based Assessment for South-West England (South Coast Dorset)
This report forms the first-desk based assessment- phase of a Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey of the historic environment of Dorset's coast. The...
Report Number: 127/2015Research Report -
Broadmayne Bank Barrow Dorset
English Heritage field investigation of a bank barrow and its environs, on Broadmayne, Dorset. The Broadmayne bank barrow forms part of a wider complex...
Report Number: 151/2001Research Report -
Long Barrows on the South Dorset Ridgeway: A Survey by English Heritage and the Ridgeway Survey Group
A survey of the Neolithic long barrows on the South Dorset Ridgeway was carried out in 2006 and 2007 by the English Heritage Archaeological Survey and...
Report Number: 19/2008Research Report -
Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey for South West England - South Coast Dorset: Component One: National Mapping Programme (6673)
This report concerns the methodology and key findings from the SWRCZAS NMP Mapping Project - Dorset (6673). This project was funded by National Heritage...
Report Number: 84/2014Research Report -
Wimborne Showground, Lake Farm, Wimborne Minster, Dorset: Report on Geophysical Surveys, September 2024
Caesium magnetometer (13.06ha) and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) (11.2ha) surveys were conducted over two fields located at Wimborne Showground, Lake...
Report Number: 96/2024Research Report -
The Swash Channel Wreck, Dorset: Tree-Ring Analysis of Ship Timbers
This report summarises work undertaken to assess and sample in situ timbers of a wreck known as the Swash Channel Wreck, lying underwater in the approaches...
Report Number: 106/2010Research Report -
Mount Pleasant, West Stafford, Dorset: Report on Geophysical Survey, March and August 2019
Caesium magnetometer and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys were conducted at Mount Pleasant, West Stafford, Dorset, to address a casework request...
Report Number: 92/2019Research Report -
South Purbeck, Chalk and Limestone Mixed
South Purbeck, also known as the Isle of Purbeck, forms part of the South Coast of Dorset running west from Swanage and including St Albans Head and Lulworth...
Report Number: 140/2020Research Report -
Historic Watercourses: Using Imagery to Support Identification of the Historic Character of Watercourses. A Case Study on the Dorset Stour Catchment
Rivers are a key component of the English landscape and they have fulfilled a vital role in its culture, development and history over the centuries. Many...
Report Number: 85/2018Research Report -
POSSIBLE DUROTRIGIAN POTTERY FROM SOUTH CADBURY CASTLE, SOMERSET
Thin sectioning and heavy mineral separation on a small range of late Iron Age forms from the South Cadbury Castle showed that three of the 10 sherds...
Report Number: 50/1993Research Report -
Blakemore DMV, Cattistock, Dorset: March 1987
Previously unrecorded earthworks of a small deserted hamlet lie on the E side of the Frome St Quintin to Cattistock Road just south of Higher Chalmington....
Report Number: 246/1987Research Report -
Weymouth Lowlands, Chalk and Limestone Mixed
The Weymouth Lowlands lies on the south Dorset coast, stretching from just west of Bridport to Weymouth Bay in the east. The chalk ridge of the Dorset...
Report Number: 142/2020Research Report -
Isle of Portland, Chalk and Limestone Mixed
The area is located off the south Dorset coast, attached to the mainland by the shingle of Chesil Beach. Around half of the Isle of Portland is designated...
Report Number: 141/2020Research Report -
PETROLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ROMAN COARSE POTTERY FROM GREYHOUND YARD, DORCHESTER.
Thin sectioning and heavy mineral analysis allowed the identification of black-burnished ware (BB1)from the Wareham - Poole Harbour Tertiary sands area...
Report Number: 131/1987Research Report -
ST GILES'S HOUSE, WIMBORNE, ST GILES, DORSET
This report was written by John Cattell and Susie Barson of the Historic Buildings and Areas Research Department (HBARD) of English Heritage following...
Report Number: 127/2003Research Report
