Archaeology Data Service

The Aim of the ADS (Archaeology Data Service) is to collect, preserve and provide user support for thousands of digital reports and files produced through archaeological research.

It is a not-for-profit organisation based at The King’s Manor at the University of York. It was established in 1996 by a consortium of Departments of Archaeology within the universities of Birmingham, Bradford, Glasgow, Kent at Canterbury, Leicester, Newcastle and Oxford along with the Council for British Archaeology. and English Heritage.

Alongside the main data service runs OASIS which is a library of grey literature, the unpublished fieldwork reports from both professional and amateur organisations. .

It is this library that we were invited to join by Mark Barratt from English Heritage when he visited the University of Leicester. We now hold a licence and are able to deposit our reports on excavation and field walking etc..

These reports and the many thousands of other deposits in the library are available for anyone to access. It provides a safe archive for our material.

Over the past few years most of our excavation reports and all of the larger ones, have been deposited along with all our field walking and field earthwork reports.

Under the umbrella of Access Cambridge Archaeology you can also find the thirty test pits we excavated during 2013-4.

Professional archaeological reports on local development sites are also deposited in this library.

How to access our reports:

Search: Oasis grey literature library choose Browse by contractor click on here to gain access to the list of contractors or, type Great Bowden Heritage or Access Cambridge Archaeology in the box and then click on GO

For our reports choose either Great Bowden Heritage or Access Cambridge Archaeology

You can then download the reports you wish to read.