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NEWSLETTER OF THE ENGLISH HERITAGE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT Inside this issue... RESEARCH Introduction ...............................2 NEW DISCOVERIES AND NEWS INTERPRETATIONS East Harptree ...........................3 Audley End Stables ..................6 The vernacular buildings in Tony Wilmott, © English Heritage Wilmott, Tony the North Pennines AONB ...10 The former Drill Hall, York Hall, Great Yarmouth ............ 14 Birdoswald Roman cemetery .................. 16 RETROSPECTIVE Archaeology & Illustrators: a history of the Ancient Monuments Drawing Office ..20 Over half a lifetime in ancient technology ................ 22 NOTES & NEWS ................. 25 RESEARCH DEPARTMENT REPORTS LIST ....................... 27 Excavating a cremation at the Birdoswald Roman cemetery, Cumbria – see story page 16 NEW PUBLICATIONS ......... 28 NUMBER 14 SPRING 2010 ISSN 1750-2446 RESEARCH THEMES AND PROGRAMMES A Discovering, studying and defining historic assets and English Heritage’s Research Department embodies skills and expertise that have long their significance been central to the organisation and to its predecessors in the Department of the A1 What’s out there? Defining, Environment (DoE) and before that the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works. In characterising and analysing the historic environment this general issue of Research News we take a retrospective look at two areas where A2 Spotting the gaps: Analysing this long-term public investment in heritage expertise has generated an international poorly-understood landscapes, areas and monuments profile and influence. Justine Bayley, recently retired as Head of Technology in A3 Unlocking the riches: Realising the Archaeological Science & Archives, recounts the changes both organisational and potential of the research dividend methodological that she has witnessed over a long career beginning when she B Studying and establishing the joined the former Ancient Monuments Laboratory in 1973. Complementing this, socio-economic and other values and needs of the Trevor Pearson reports on a project to capture the development of practice in historic environment and those concerned with it archaeological graphics by the Ancient Monuments Drawing Office and its successor B1 Valuing the historic environment: the Archaeological Graphics Team. Quantifying the economic and social value of historic assets Archaeological Projects is another part of the organisation with a heritage that B2 Gauging the mood: Establishing perceptions and attitudes to the goes back to the early 1970s. Two recent projects have shown the way forward in historic environment partnership working and training. At East Harptree, excavation tested the results B3 Understanding the needs: Delivering sector intelligence of geophysical survey undertaken by local groups with English Heritage support. Excavation training for the local volunteers honed fieldwork skills, and has provided C Engaging and developing diverse audiences a network of contacts that will be used as the local groups develop and implement C1 Opening Doors: Understanding their own research projects. At Birdoswald, on Hadrian’s Wall, excavations were public participation in the historic environment mounted to recover the archaeology of a Roman cremation cemetery threatened in C2 Making Friends: Building the short and medium term by erosion of the river cliff. The work was undertaken in understanding and appreciation through education and outreach partnership with the Archaeology Department of the University of Newcastle, which provided the resources to undertake student training in all aspects of excavation, and D Studying and assessing the risks to historic assets and in finds and environmental processing. devising responses D1 Heritage at risk: Quantifying and analysing the historic environment Architectural Investigation and Archaeological Survey & Investigation are Research D2 Measuring threat: Studying the Department teams whose history lies in the former Royal Commission of Historic reasons for risk and developing Monuments for England. Their diverse work is represented in this issue by buildings responses D3 Keeping it safe: Protection and research as part of the Miner-Farmer Landscapes project in the North Pennines conservation AONB (Research News 11), by the research undertaken on the stables of Audley D4 Rescue! Threat-led last resort analysis End house to inform their future public display, and by the investigation of a notable E Studying historic assets and Victorian drill hall in Great Yarmouth. improving their presentation and interpretation E1 Presenting the past: Research to Christopher Scull inform the presentation to the public of historic places Research Director F Studying and developing Research and Standards Group information management F1 Navigating the resource: Developing standards for Historic Environment Records F2 Wired! Studying and developing information management G Studying and devising ways of Research News appears three times per year. making English Heritage and Published June 2010 © English Heritage 2010. 75% the sector more effective Edited by Tony Wilmott. Designed by Vincent Griffin. G1 Sharpening the tools: Developing new techniques of analysis and Printed by The Colourhouse understanding Product code 51607 G2 Defining the questions: Devising research strategies, frameworks and Comment should be sent to Tony Wilmott at: English Heritage, agenda Fort Cumberland, Fort Cumberland Road, Eastney, Portsmouth, PO4 9LD. G3 Impact and effectiveness: Measuring Cert no. SGS-COC-003231 outcomes and effectiveness of Telephone: 023 9285 6700. Fax: 023 9285 6701. English Heritage and the sector Email: [email protected] 2 NEW DISCOVERIES AND INTERPRETATIONS RESEARCH THEMES AND PROGRAMMES Community-centred training A 1 excavation at East Harptree Local volunteers and professional archaeologists work together to investigate the buried history of a Mendip village. In April and May 2009, the Archaeological settlement. HHS volunteers helped identify Projects and Archaeological Science & and secure the agreement of householders in Archives teams undertook excavations the village who were willing to have test-pits at East Harptree (Bath and North-East dug in their gardens. Somerset), providing training for members of the Harptrees History Society (HHS) Initially, two trenches were located to and other local history/archaeology groups. investigate the earthworks in Haydon’s Field. The training covered not just excavation HHS members carried out an interpretative and recording, but the whole range of tasks hachure survey of the earthworks in 2007. entailed in taking an excavation project In broad terms, the earthworks apparently from inception through fieldwork, archive consist of two raised platforms, sub-divided completion, assessment, analysis and archive by a number of linear depressions. These deposition. The aim was to create a skills were interpreted as representing abandoned base among the volunteers, enabling them to tenements, consisting of dwellings and continue work in the future. English Heritage associated plots, with possible streets or is also helping establish a network of contacts trackways running between them. The same between HHS and other local groups on area was surveyed by English Heritage’s the one hand and relevant organisations Geophysics Team in July 2008, also as a and individuals on the other, to support training exercise for local volunteers. Results the volunteers in carrying out further appeared to enhance the interpretation of the archaeological research to a high standard. recorded earthworks, suggesting the location The project capitalised on and helped TM develop links already established between English Heritage staff and local volunteers in the context of the Mendip Hills AONB project (see Research News 5, 8 and 11). The overall research aim was to obtain through Next Perspectives information regarding the origins of the settlement of East Harptree and how the © English Heritage Andrew Lowerre, village and activities carried out there developed over time. The nature of the project enabled targeted excavation in a currently occupied rural settlement, an avenue of settlement studies which has, until recently, been neglected. The focus on investigating still-occupied – as opposed to deserted –settlement was modelled on work undertaken in East Anglia by Carenza Lewis Licensed to English Heritage PGA, for Aerial Photography: with the Higher Education Field Academy (University of Cambridge). The excavations comprised three trenches Locations of excavation in Haydon’s Field – an area of pasture in trenches and test-pits in the village containing earthworks – along East Harptree, with general with four test-pits at various locations in the location map (inset) 3 of property boundaries, the layout of tracks and possible building remains. The pattern of anomalies seemed to indicate that there was earlier, possibly medieval, settlement in Haydon’s Field, aligned to the same street plan as the modern village. Jonathan Webster, © English Heritage Webster, Jonathan Somewhat surprisingly, the first two trenches in Haydon’s Field (A and B) demonstrated that the original interpretations of the earthworks and geophysical survey were incorrect. Where evidence of boundary fences or ditches, building remains, pits and tracks had been expected, only ploughsoil merging into undisturbed natural subsoil was encountered. Very small amounts of highly abraded pottery were recovered from these two trenches,
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