Research Reports
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The South East Northumberland Air Photo and Lidar Mapping Project
This project generated a detailed map and records of archaeological and historical features that are visible on aerial photographs and lidar imagery....
Report Number: 79/2022Research Report -
Brocton WW1 Army Camp, Cannock Chase Staffordshire: An Investigation of the Window Glass
The scientific examination and chemical analysis of glass from Brocton Camp WW1 army base located at Cannock Case in Staffordshire was carried out to...
Report Number: 88/2010Research Report -
Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire: Rediscovering Australia - Surveying the 'Lost' Chalk Map
This report describes the research undertaken by Historic England to help our understanding of the ‘lost’ chalk map of Australia at Compton Chamberlayne,...
Report Number: 80/2018Research 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 -
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 -
Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Phase 3
This report documents the final phase of survey, building on previous surveys carried out on Yorkshire and Lincolnshire's coastal historic environment....
Report Number: 99/2015Research Report -
Strategic Assessment of Submarines in English Waters
This report covers a Strategic Desk-based Assessment of Submarines in English Waters. The aim of the project was to inform a policy on future designation...
Report Number: 111/2014Research Report -
UC-6 Thames Estuary: Archaeological Report
This report covers an assessment of the wreck site reported as being the German minelayer UC-21 or possibly UC-6 located in the Thames Estuary, off the...
Report Number: 124/2015Research Report -
UB-31 Folkestone, Kent: Archaeological Report
This report covers an Undesignated Site Assessment of the possible wreck site of UB-31, lost off Folkestone on 2nd May 1918. The work was carried out...
Report Number: 113/2014Research Report -
HMS D5 off Lowestoft, Suffolk : Archaeological Services in Relation to Marine Protection, Undesignated Site Assessment
Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Historic England to undertake an Undesignated Site Assessment of the wreck site of HMS D5, lost off Lowestoft on...
Report Number: 96/2016Research Report -
East Cambridgeshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping Project Report
The East Cambridgeshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project combined the mapping and interpretation of vertical and specialist oblique aerial photographs,...
Report Number: 56/2021Research Report -
Changing Chalk: Downs from Above. Aerial Survey of the South Downs north of Brighton
The Downs from Above project is the aerial survey component of the National Trust-led and National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported Changing Chalk partnership....
Report Number: 16/2023Research Report