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Framlingham Castle: The Landscape Context. Desk Top Assessment
Framlingham is identified as the caput of an Anglo-Saxon estate. A Norman precursor to Framlingham Castle was probably deliberately located where the...
Report Number: 106/2007Research Report -
Countering the ‘deadliest of foes’: public houses of the Central Control Board and the State Management Scheme, 1916-73
At the height of the war in 1916, the excessive consumption of alcohol amongst workers was considered to be having a debilitating effect on the war effort,...
Report Number: 89/2018Research Report -
Buildings of the Radio Electronics Industry In Essex
In November 1998, Essex County Council commissioned a brief assessment survey of the surviving structures relating to the radio electronics industry in...
Report Number: 119/1998Research Report -
Warbstow Bury, Warbstow, Cornwall: Archaeological Survey Report
Warbstow Bury is a multivallate hillfort in Warbstow, north Cornwall. It affords substantial views overlooking north Cornwall and the coast, and is one...
Report Number: 3/2014Research Report -
Stockton and Darlington Railway Heritage Action Zone – Aerial Investigation and Mapping
The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) opened in 1825, establishing a legacy of rail transport that remains today. The railway was chosen as one of...
Report Number: 28/2019Research Report -
Nine Thousand Miles of Concrete: A Review of Second World War Temporary Airfields in England
This is a review of the legacy of changing military airfield design and massive construction during the Second World War that served British, Commonwealth...
Report Number: 75/2016Research Report -
Stonehenge Aerodrome and the Stonehenge Landscape
Between 1917 and 1921, Stonehenge had an aerodrome for a near-neighbour. Initially a Royal Flying Corps training establishment, from January 1918 it became...
Report Number: 7/2014Research Report -
Inner-London Schools 1918-44: A Thematic Study
The subject of this report is school building between the 1918 and 1944 Education Acts, with a focus on inner London. The period 1918-44 saw a movement...
Report Number: 43/2009Research Report -
Fort Halstead, Dunton Green Sevenoaks, Kent: A brief assessment of the role of Fort Halstead in Britain’s early rocket programmes and the atomic bomb project
The late 19th century Mobilisation Centre, Fort Halstead, is a Scheduled Monument, Kent 303. It fulfilled its original role as a Mobilisation Centre,...
Report Number: 49/2010Research Report -
The Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Orford Ness, Suffolk: Cold War Research & Development Site. Survey Report
The Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Orford Ness, Suffolk, was operational between 1956 and 1972. Its primary task was environmental testing to...
Report Number: 10/2009Research Report -
RAF Langtoft, Langtoft, Lincolnshire
The Radar Station at Langtoft was established during the Second World War as a Ground Control Intercept (GCI) station. It was retained after the end of...
Report Number: 129/1998Research Report -
A History of the National Heritage Collection, Volume Three: Stonehenge
This is Volume Three in a series of eight reports, which describe the formation of the national collection of ancient monuments and historic buildings...
Report Number: 47/2014Research Report -
Old Oswestry, Selattyn and Gobowen, Shropshire: Analysis of Earthwork Report
Analytical survey of the earthworks at Old Oswestry indicates that the hillfort began as a univallate enclosure crowning the summit of the hill, to which...
Report Number: 82/2010Research Report -
A History of the National Heritage Collection, Volume Four: 1913-1931 The Ancient Monuments Branch under Peers and Baines
This is Volume Four in a series of eight reports, which describe the formation of the national collection of ancient monuments and historic buildings...
Report Number: 48/2014Research Report -
The Garrison Defences, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly : The Development of its Defences 1500 - 1945
The Garrison, linked by a sand bar to the main landmass of St. Mary’s, forms the principal site in the island’s defences, on which stand the remains of...
Report Number: 39/2011Research Report -
Stonehenge World Heritage Site Landscape Project: Stonehenge Down and the Triangle, Amesbury, Wiltshire
Survey of the earthworks on Stonehenge Down, including those in the immediate environs of Stonehenge, an area here termed the Triangle, was undertaken...
Report Number: 105/2011Research Report -
The Western Heights, Dover, Kent. Report No. 7: North Centre and Detached Bastions: 19th-century Fortifications. Survey Report
Between April and July 1998 the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) carried out an archaeological survey and investigation...
Report Number: 132/2001Research Report -
Belhus Park, Thurrock: Report on Aerial Photography and Lidar Analysis
Analysis and mapping of aerial photographs and lidar were undertaken at Belhus Park, Thurrock to assist with further research by local volunteers and...
Report Number: 19/2022Research Report -
Cooling Radio Station, Hoo Peninsula, Kent: An Archaeological Investigation of a Short-Wave Receiving Station
In August 2010, English Heritage’s Archaeological Survey and Investigation team carried out an investigation of the remains of Cooling Radio Station....
Report Number: 110/2010Research Report -
All Hallows, Kent: A Second World War Oil QF Bombing Decoy
Situated in the Allhallows Marshes Hoo Peninsula, Medway, Kent are the well preserved remains of a Second World War QF P-Series oil bombing decoy. This...
Report Number: 8/2014Research Report