Historic Archaeology Research Group

The common focus is research centred on studies of individual and group identity, social relations and relations between the social, built and natural environments, bringing together a variety of diachronic perspectives. Major themes correspond with international quality research flagged in the RAE 2008 submission.

Key areas

• Historic settlement, urban & rural
• Religious Landscapes
• Gender, the Body & Material Culture
• Diaspora and Colonisation
• Human-animal-environment Relationships

Projects

• Glastonbury Abbey Excavations
• Landscapes of the Anglo-Saxon Conversion: Excavations at Lyminge, Kent
• Bartlow Hills Roman burial mounds
• Silchester Roman town 
• Bordesley Abbey
• Norwich Cathedral Archaeology
• The medieval monastic cemetery in Britain
• Klin Yar
• Inclusive, accessible archaeology