Annual Review of Post-Medieval Fieldwork in Britain and Northern Ireland
Every year the Society produces a summary Review of post-medieval archaeology in the UK (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) for publication in the Society’s journal Post-Medieval Archaeology. Summary reports of excavations and fieldwork undertaken during the past calendar year are requested for inclusion in our annual review. Material for the preceding calendar year should be sent to the compiler by the end of March.
1. The summaries should be limited to post-medieval material although you may need to give sites a context in an earlier period, e.g. medieval monastery.
2. They should be concerned with actual fieldwork (including survey) and not include large elements of historical research, desk-based assessments or unproductive watching briefs.
3. All features should be dated and assigned functions. This is to avoid the meaningless ‘post-medieval material/pit/surface/wall’ etc. Finds of post-medieval pottery on their own without reference to type or source of manufacture are equally unhelpful.
4. We would like the summaries to be about 100 words and no more than 300 words. Phasing 1, 2, 3, is often a shorter way of writing than continuous prose and clearer. Summarise landscape survey projects in a short paragraph. Name the area and provide a central grid ref. List the site types found, or give a brief freehand description of the archaeology. Another way to shorten your piece is to include a reference to a more detailed report or a website address. If you are bursting to get a piece of research of national importance off your chest, consider writing a short note for the journal.
5. Please follow the format conventions used in the latest volume with double spacing and wide margins,
·County or region, place and/or site name (IN CAPS, in the order town, street, place)
·National grid reference (presented as above - please tell compilers if you are withholding it)
·Brief report to include nature of work, reference to any recent work on the site, reference to previously published reports, location of disposition of finds and archive report, intended full place of publication. (Measurements should all be in metres and millimetres rather than centimetres, and compass points should be N, S, E, W, etc.)
·Name of excavator, group or unit and funding bodies.
·For editorial purposes: availability of plans and illustrations and name, address and telephone number of someone able to answer queries arising from contributions. Acknowldge copyright in illustration captions.
·Colour images are welcome and should be sent as jpegs to: john.allan@exeter.gov.uk. These will be published as half-tones in the Journal but presented in colour in the on-line version.
Please send entries on CDs or floppies together with your hard copy and any suitable illustrations to:
Dr Marit Gaimster
9 Cranfield Road
Brockley
London SE4 1TN
or as attachments by e-mail to mgaimster@pre-construct.com |
