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From: Archaeology Data Service Superlist [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Stuart Jeffrey
Sent: 05 November 2008 16:36
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Subject: ASKED resource launched online.
**** Apologies for Cross Posting ****
The ADS, the AHRC and the Leverhulme Trust are pleased to announce the
online launch of the Anglo-Saxon Kent Electronic Database (ASKED):
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/asked_ahrc_2008/
This database was created by Stuart Brookes and Sue Harrington to
facilitate
their respective PhD researches at UCL Institute of Archaeology, from
1998-2000. This online subset of the data acts as the pilot for a larger
corpus of material currently being gathered under the aegis of the
'Beyond
the Tribal Hidage Project'
(http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/project/tribal-hidage/index.htm) - a
Leverhulme funded research project undertaken at UCL Institute of
Archaeology by Martin Welch with Sue Harrington. This further dataset
will
also be deposited with the Archaeology Data Service in late 2009, in the
same fully searchable online format as this version of ASKED.
The resource at the heart of ASKED is the archaeological evidence for
the
Anglo-Saxon populations of east and west Kent AD 400-750. The evidence
consists of the human skeletal remains, the grave goods and the burial
structures from inhumation cemeteries. ASKED brings together various
sources
in one unified and accessible dataset. A subset of 53 cemetery sites are
prioritised here together with isolated burials, settlements and find
spots.
Whilst the user may not find, for example, a complete list of every
artefact
found in Kent, they will find all coherently published examples.
This database already represents a fantastic new resource for the study
of
Anglo-Saxon Kent and England more broadly, and it will continue to grow
both
in size and usefulness with further deposits of data in the coming
months.
Regards,
Stuart.
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Dr Stuart Jeffrey
Archaeology Data Service
Department of Archaeology
University of York
The King's Manor
York, YO1 7EP, UK
Tel: +44 1904 434990
Fax: +44 1904 433939
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk
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