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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear all, The Society of Antiquaries of London and the Archaeology Data Service are pleased to announce the joint publication of the monograph and digital archive for the Fyfield and Overton Down Project by Prof. Peter Fowler. This exciting joint venture, funded by English Heritage, explores the boundaries of traditional archaeological monograph publication through the use of a large online digital archive (http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/ - look under Project Archives). The digital archive serves two purposes: 1. To support the monograph Landscape Plotted and Pieced: Landscape History and Local Archaeology in Fyfield and Overton, Wiltshire by Peter Fowler (published in 2000 by The Society of Antiquaries of London, distributed by Oxbow Books), and the popular book The Land of Lettice Sweetapple. An English Countryside Explored, by P. Fowler and I. Blackwell, 1998, published by Tempus, Stroud and the online excavation reports * Excavation within a later prehistoric field system on Overton Down, West Overton, Wilts: land-use over 4,000 years * Excavation of a Settlement of the Fourth and Fifth Centuries AD on Overton Down, West Overton, Wilts * Excavation of the Medieval Settlement of 'Raddun', Wroughton Mead, Fyfield Down, near Marlborough, Wilts * Seven Small Excavations on Fyfield and Overton Downs, with summaries of eighteen other excavations in and near Fyfield and West Overton Parishes, Wiltshire 2 .to offer an insight into the intellectual processes involved in the execution of a large and complex project by offering essentially everything from jotted down thoughts to full site reports. The archive consists of 100 Fyfod Working Papers (FWPs) each of which consists of from one to over 40 word processed documents. Each file making up the Fyfod Working Papers may be downloaded in a variety of file formats. If you have any questions or comments about the archive please don't hesitate to contact us! Damian -- Dr Damian Robinson Collections Development Manager, Archaeology Data Service Department of Archaeology University of York e: [log in to unmask] The King's Manor m: + 44 (0) 7970 862369 YO1 7EP, UK t: + 44 (0) 1904 433954 http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ f: + 44 (0) 1904 433939