Archaeology
project: The evolution of Rome's maritime facade: archaeology & geomorphology at Castleporziano
Grant Holder: Prof Amanda Claridge
Arising from questions raised by the excavations at the Vicus in the 1990s, the project investigated the nature and chronology of physical changes affecting the litus Laurentinum before, during and immediately after the Roman period. A GIS database for current and future archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research in the area was created to integrate different categories of data and provide an understanding of the spatial development of the area through time. [read more]
project: Carrlands: mediated manifestations of site-specific performance in the Ancholme valley, North Lincolnshire
Grant Holder: Professor Michael Pearson
The aim of Carrlands is to create a series of related site-specific musical and spoken-word performances over a period of twelve months, for three locations in the agricultural valley of the river Ancholme in North Lincolnshire . Such performances represent both an innovative mode of enquiry and a research output, within the field of Performance Studies. The soundworks are disseminated and publicly distributed in the form of streamed; free-to-listen; podcasts, initially available through specially designed, dedicated pages on the University of Wales, Aberystwyth website. [read more]
project: Technologies of Enchantment: Celtic Art in Southern Britain in the Middle and Late Iron Age
Grant Holder: Dr Duncan Garrow
This project aims to investigate the artefacts found in Britain between about 300 BC and 150 AD which have come to be known as ‘Celtic Art’. The project seeks to understand why Celtic Art objects were made in the first place, how they were used and why they often seem to have been intentionally deposited in rivers or under the ground. The first task has been to compile a comprehensive database (in Excel, downloadable from the website) of all Celtic Art ever found in Britain. [read more]
project: E-Curator: 3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment
Grant Holder: Ms Sally MacDonald
The E-Curator research project "3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment" is a project at UCL Museums and Collections.
This project draws on UCL's expertise both in curatorship and in e-Science. It takes advantage of the presence at UCL of world class collections across a range of disciplines and of a state of the art colour scanner, the quality of which is unequalled in the UK. [read more]