GRANTS AWARDED IN 2019
Beatrice de Cardi Awards
Dr Simon Underdown (Oxford Brookes)
SedaDNA Disease, Environment and Demography in Oman
To apply cutting-edge molecular (DNA) analytical techniques to archaeological sequences in Oman for the first time with analysis of archaeological sediments to explore the impact of infectious diseases and climate variability on archaeological populations in Southern Arabia.
£14,907
Professor Paolo Biagi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
The shell middens of Las Bela coast
To continue research along the Arabian Sea coast of Las Bela province of Balochistan where the research promoted by the applicant since 2000 has led to the discovery of ca 100 shell middens along the Bay of Daun, Capes Gadani and Phuari, and the ancient shores of Lake Siranda.
£5,577
Dr Michel de Vreeze (Department of Antiquities and Museums, Ras al-Khaimah)
Understanding Prehistoric Settlement Dynamics at Shimal
To form a better understanding of the prehistoric settlement history at the important area of Shimal by initiating excavations in key identified locations.
£14,940
Margaret and Tom Jones Awards
Professor Andrew Reynolds (UCL) and Oliver Hitchinson (CITIZAN)
The Early Medieval Maritime Landscape of Mersea Island
An extension of the coastal/intertidal focus of the CiTIZAN case-study of this part of Essex in order to understand the relationship between the coast and landscape across the early middle ages, but also in the long duree.
£5,555
Dr Laura Basell (Queen’s, Belfast) and Dr Lee Bray (Dartmoor National Park Authority)
Dartmoor Tor Enclosure Survey: ‘DATES’.
Using multiple, high-specification survey methods, ‘DATES’ will focus on three Neolithic tor enclosures (TE) on Dartmoor to develop understanding of their precise age, function and broader prehistoric landscape context.
£9,963
Janet Arnold Awards
Vangeline, The Vangeline Theater
Recreation of Butoh’s most iconic costume
To research how a legendary costume worn by Tatsumi Hijikata (the founder of Butoh) was designed by recreating it.
£5,000
Dr Mary Brooks (Durham University)
Contextualising the Morton ‘cope’
To contextualise the elements of the Morton ‘cope’ by researching the six surviving vestments associated with Morton and the history of the Auckland ‘cope’.
£4,925
Dr Peter Hommel (University of Oxford)
Beauty of the Beast: Exploring the role of animal skin/leather in the Early Iron Age costume of southern Siberia
A study of the changing role of skin/leathercraft following the introduction of woollen textile technology during the late 2nd Millennium BC.
£4,256
Dr Claire M. Hubbard-Hall (Bishop Grosseteste University)
SOE Spy Clothing: Dress & Deception during the Second World War
To critically examine the ways in which the Special Operations Executive (SOE) clothed and disguised its agents throughout the Second World War.
£3,940
Alison Larkin
Rediscovering a Lost Resource: Lady’s Mag Patterns
To trace, identify and digitally record as many as possible of the extant embroidery patterns published in The Lady’s Magazine between 1770-1819.
£2,500
Research Grants
Dr Zosia Archibald, (University of Liverpool) (Three-Year Award)
The Archaic Domestic Economy of Ancient Olynthos
To reconstruct the resource and human cost of building one of these earlier house units, using information drawn from historical documents, charcoal analysis, and environmental study, as well as excavation data and spatial analysis.
£4,820
Dr Mark Bland (Independent)
The World of Simon Waterson, Stationer
To establish a material basis for calculating the investment of publishers, and of printing-house output, based on a volumetric analysis of composition, and to link it to data about family, geography, trade relationships, legal disputes, wills, and other contemporary records.
£5,000
Dr Rachel Bynoe (Southampton University)
Investigating submerged landscapes at Happisburgh
Systematic targeted searches for locating the source of Pleistocene archaeological material offshore to build on previous diving and geophysical work on recently discovered submerged deposits at Happisburgh.
£4,834
Dr Peter D.Campbell (British School at Rome)
Maritime Archaeological Survey of the Tiber River
A geophysics survey to examine the Tiber from Rome to the sea.
£5,000
Dr Paul Everill (University of Winchester)
Archaeology for improved wellbeing among veterans
To systematically collect and analyse qualitative data from participants of veteran-focused archaeological initiatives in order to assess the strengths, weaknesses, and potential risks of using archaeology as a vehicle for the recovery/ rehabilitation of military veterans.
£4,505
Professor Robert Foley (University of Cambridge)
Late Acheulean and the MSA in Botswana
To survey and excavate newly discovered localities in the Inner Kalahari, Botswana.
£5,000
Dr Bisserka Gaydarska (Independent)
DATES and FRUITS: new data from the Varna cemetery
To obtain 10 AMS dates from the newly-discovered graves from the Varna cemetery in Bulgaria and apply FRUITS methodology to reconstruct past diet.
£4,920
Dr Katie Hemer (University of Sheffield)
Amber trade and the Kingdom of Lindsey
Application of Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy to provenance amber recovered from burials at the 5th- 6th century AD cemetery of Scremby, Lincolnshire in order to identify the principal sources of amber used and exchanged in eastern England and use of strontium and oxygen isotope analysis to identify the place of origin of those buried with amber in order to consider the role of population mobility in the amber trade network.
£4,783
Emeritus Professor Gary Lock (University of Oxford)
Nescliffe Hill, Shropshire
Small-scale excavations as part of a larger project by Historic England and Shropshire Council to understand the site and present it to the public.
£1,500
Dr Lisa Lodwick (University of Oxford)
Isotopic investigation of cereal grain germination
To establish whether germination affects carbon and nitrogen isotopic values of cereal grains thus affecting the interpretation of past crop husbandry practices from δ13C and δ15N
£2,400
Dr Stephen Mills (Cardiff University)
Human-river interactions in the lower Danube valley
To advance archaeological and palaeo-environmental research on human-river interactions within the lower Danube valley with a specific chronological focus on the period of transformation from hunter-gatherer to farming communities at c. 6000 cal BC
£4,025
Professor Harold Mytum (University of Liverpool)
Les Blanches Banques Jersey POW Camp Survey
A 7-day survey, combined with documentary and artefactual study, will record and analyse the complete site layout, and how those interned adapted to their incarceration.
£2,200
Dr Nicolas Naudinot (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis)
Blades with flat retouch in the Creswellian
Study of blades with flat retouch in British collections and comparative analysis with materials in France.
£5,000
Dr Philip Nigst (University of Cambridge)
Geoarchaeological and microstratigraphic studies at Grub-Kranawetberg (Austria)
Excavation and analysis of a newly excavated section to conduct geoarchaeological, microstratigraphic and environmental analyses of a Gravettian site in Austria.
£4,230
Mr Justin Prim (Independent)
Preservation of Traditional British Lapidary Knowledge
An informal two-month apprenticeship with Chas Matthews Ltd, the last British master gem cutters, as a means of preserving and recording the knowledge and teachings of the British lapidary tradition.
£3,826
Professor Julian Richards (York University)
Tents to Towns: Torksey after the Vikings
Investigates the Viking impact on urbanism and industry in Anglo-Saxon England.
£5,000
Dr Simon Roffey (University of Winchester)
The Archaeology of Medieval Hermitages
To investigate, interpret and record a diverse range of archaeological and architectural evidence for the eremitic life.
£4,375
Lambarde Travel Awards
Dr Cailah Jackson (University of Oxford)
Research trip to Leiden University Library to examine a recently-discovered medieval almanac from 1369.
£470
Mr Matthew Payne (Westminster Abbey)
Travel to Florence to study four ledgers of banks established by members of the Bardi family of Florence in London.
£490
Dr Caroline Shenton (Independent)
Research trip to the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth) and Bangor University Archives
£500
Professor Bonnie Effros (University of Liverpool)
Travel to Poitiers to work at the Archives Départmentales de la Vienne, which house the correspondence of Camille de la Croix.
£500
Wheeler Student Travel Award
Miss Petra Jones (University of Cambridge)
For flights, to and from Budapest, Hungary to participate in fieldwork and museum work in Szazhalombatta.
£350
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