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- Anglo Saxon and Viking Pottery - Detailed history of pottery making techniques in Britain from Regia Anglorum.
www.regia.org/pottery.htm
- Anglo-Saxon and Viking Glass and Amber Working - Ben Levick and Roland Williamson explain how glass and amber were fashioned into beads and a variety of other objects in this attractively illustrated article from Regia Anglorum.
www.regia.org/glass.htm
- Archaeological Dig Unearths Roman Army Treasures - The Guardian reports the discovery in Carlisle of a Roman armory workshop with weapons and some of the best-preserved armor ever discovered.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4175964,00.html
- Archaeological Objects Thesaurus - Provided by MDA (representing museums) and English Heritage.
www.mdocassn.demon.co.uk/archobj/archcon.htm
- Caerwent Animal Bones - Archaeology student Kevin Smith presents his dissertation on the faunal remains of the late Romano-British period from the forum-basilica at Caerwent. Includes plan, images, bibliography.
archonline.tripod.com/main.html
- Celtic Coin Index - An illustrated introduction to Oxford University's huge collection of images of Celtic coins found in Britain, with bibliography.
units.ox.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/ccindex/ccindex.htm
- Celtic Coin Index on the Web - The Internet version by John Hooker and Carin Perron. The coins of the Atrebatian king Epaticcus are on-line. Further records will be added in order of original cataloguing. Bibliography.
www.writer2001.com/cciwriter2001
- Celtic Inscribed Stones - Online database of all non-Runic inscriptions on stone monuments in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Dumnonia, Brittany and the Isle of Man AD 400-1000. Hosted by University College London.
www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp
- Cleeve Abbey Floor Tiles - Report by Alan Vince on the petrology and ICPS analysis of medieval floor tiles from Cleeve Abbey, Somerset.
www.postex.demon.co.uk/reports/cleeve/frames.htm
- Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture - Durham University hosts this site on the British Academy project. Background information, progress of county volumes, digital grammar of Anglo-Saxon ornament, with bibliography.
www.durham.ac.uk/corpus
- Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture - The British Academy describes its cataloguing of Anglo-Saxon sculpture by area. Lists of volumes published.
www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/cat/casss.html
- Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani - The British Academy describes its cataloguing of Romano-British sculpture by area. Lists of volumes published.
www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/cat/csir.html
- Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi - The British Academy describes its cataloguing of Medieval Window Glass in Britain by area. Lists of volumes published.
www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/cat/cvma.html
- Dig Finds New Kind of Roman Camp - From New Zealand Herald, the remains of a young Roman man who dressed as a woman and probably castrated himself show a previously unknown side of Britain's ancient history.
www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2042615&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
- Early Medieval Corpus of Coin Finds - Searchable database all of the single finds of coins minted 410-1180 found in the British Isles, based at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
www-cm.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/emc
- Gold Coin Hoard Unveiled - BBC News announced that rare mint condition Roman coins found in London go on show at the Museum of London.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1109000/1109308.stm
- Later Prehistoric Pottery Gazetteer for England - Gazetteer of collections and bibliography, maintained by the University of Southampton Department of Archaeology.
www.arch.soton.ac.uk/research/potterysurvey/results.html
- Portable Antiquities - CBA guide to portable antiquities, metal detecting and archaeology.
www.britarch.ac.uk/detecting/index.html
- Portable Antiquities Scheme - A government-backed scheme for the recording of finds in England and Wales. Includes a database containing information on c.9,000 archaeological finds with c.600 images.
www.finds.org.uk
- Potsherd - Online atlas of Roman pottery, listing the wares by class or source, from Paul Tyers, author of Roman Pottery in Britain.
www.potsherd.uklinux.net
- PotWeb - The Ashmolean Museum aims to create an online catalogue of its ceramic collections. Sample images by period. Guide to pottery-making and pottery in archaeology; information on the collectors; bibliography.
potweb.ashmol.ox.ac.uk
- Roman Carving Unearthed at Fort - Archaeologists hail the discovery of a Roman carving at Segontium in north Wales as the most significant find at the site for 30 years. From BBC News.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_1285000/1285204.stm
- Roman Finds Among Most Important - The Newcastle Chronicle reports the discovery by Carlisle Archaeology of hundreds of items of Roman armor on the site of a Roman fort in Carlisle.
icnewcastle.ic24.com/0100news/0100local/page.cfm?objectid=11034330&method=full
- Roman Inscriptions of Britain - Roman expert Guy de la Bédoyère has made available on-line the texts from the standard work 'Roman Inscriptions of Britain', vol.1.
www.bedoyere.freeserve.co.uk/RIB.htm
- Saxon Jewel Fit for Princess Unearthed - The Guardian reports that a late 7th-century brooch made of copper and delicately worked gold, studded with Indian garnets, goes on show at the Museum of London.
www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,442330,00.html
- Sculptured Stones of Early Medieval Scotland - The University of Glasgow records these monuments using traditional and digital techniques, including 3D modeling. Examples on-line require a VRML viewer.
www.gla.ac.uk/archaeology/resources/SSEMS_web
- Spoilheap Archaeology - Illustrated introductions to pottery, burials and human bones from archaeologist Sue Anderson. Also bibliographies and reports on finds from specific sites.
www.spoilheap.co.uk
- St Andrews Database Index of Coins - The electronic index of the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, a series published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press 1958-.
www.st-and.ac.uk/ITS/staff/jfec/stadic/stadic.htm
- Treasure Act 1996 - The law in England, Wales and Northern Ireland relating to the handling of treasure trove. Sets out the meaning and ownership of treasure.
www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1996/1996024.htm
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