The Archaeology Data Service is pleased to announce that the first
installment of the digital archive from the 1996 excavation under the
Royal Opera House in Covent Garden can now be accessed on-line through
ArchSearch.
The archive has been made available by the excavators, the Museum of
London Archaeology Service (MOLAS), - http://www.molas.org.uk/index.html
- through funding provided by English Heritage as part of the Digital
Archiving Pilot Project: Excavation Records (DAPPER) -
http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/archcom/projects/summarys/html98_9/cc2355.htm
Datasets currently available include GIS shape files, databases (as
comma delimited text) and text files(Word, HTML and plain text).
This project was the first major excavation undertaken within the area
of the Middle Saxon port of Lundenwic. Evidence for 63 rectangular
timber buildings was recovered. There was evidence for metalworking,
boneworking and weaving on the site. Imports included grey and black
wares from Northern France and Flanders, Badorf ware from the Rhineland
and Mayen-Niedermendig quernstones. A lot of information about the diet
of 'Londoners' in this period was also recovered.
The archive can be be accessed from ArchSearch catalogue -
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/ - try a keyword search on 'Royal Opera
House' and look for the link in Resource details for records referencing
the 1996 excavation. We have also added a new menu button, 'Project
Archives', to those on the left of the Archsearch screen. Click on this
and follow the links to the archive.
Please note that access and its interface is experimental and that
feedback will be very much appreciated.
Tony
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Tony Austin http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/staff.html
Computing Officer
Archaeology Data Service
The King's manor
York
YO1 7EP
UK
phone +44 (0)1904-433975
fax +44 (0)1904-433939
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/
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