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Nicole

PhD in Cultural Heritage & Web at @websciencetrust & @ArchCRG,@unisouthampton. Co-run #musetechphd. With @CommunityRTI,@SotonDH, @SotonDE. Promoting #opendata Southampton, UK · http://theculturalheritageweb.wordpress.com

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Plotting the trench

This morning some of our team travelled up to Basing House to finalise plans with the staff at the site, and to look again at some of the things we’ll be working on while we’re digging later this month. First of all though, we couldn’t resist going to look at the recently discovered Tudor fireplace, found by the building contractors whilst they have been working hard to fix brickwork issues on the standing remains. Continue reading →

Our 1960s excavation

The excavation this Summer, we’re reinvestigating excavations carried out by Aldermaston Archaeological Society 1962-3 at Basing House. Reported in the Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club (Pike & Combley, 1964: 11-20), the excavations consisted of a long trench (c.1m x 30m) which ran from the bank and ditch at the back of the earthworks of the main house at a right angle, towards the Basingstoke Common. Continue reading →

Meet the Team – Kris Strutt

What will you be doing at Basing House? Kris Strutt, working on the EES Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Project – http://eestheban.tumblr.com/ Hopefully some survey, geophysics, and exploring the amazing landscape of the area. What you are hoping to experience at Basing House? A good, strong, eclectic team of people doing what they do best. What’s the unique thing that attracts you to Basing House? The amazing archaeology, and definitely the tea and biscuits. Continue reading →

Meet the Team – Adam Chapman

What will you be doing at Basing House? Adam Chapman Hopefully, what I’ll be doing at Basing is to try and relate some of the historical accounts to what we can see on the ground and to provide some historical context to the archaeology, particularly with regard to the period before the Civil Wars. What you are hoping to experience at Basing House? Er? Rain, cold, sunshine, tea and biscuits. Continue reading →

Meet the Team – Dave Allen

Dave Allen, Keeper of Archaeology Dave’s Biography Dave began his digging career in Wales, working on Iron Age hillforts at the Breiddin and Moel y Gaer, and a range of sites in the BrenigValley.  Forays into England included Gussage All Saints and a season at Hambledon Hill.  He also fitted in four years fieldwork in his native Buckinghamshire. He has been looking after the Hampshire County archaeology collections for more than 30 years. Continue reading →

Meet the Team – Nicole Beale

What will you be doing at Basing House? Nicole, one of the project co-directors. I am lucky to be one of the co-directors of the project. I worked at Basing House a couple of years ago, helping with the Heritage Lottery Funded project, and I have been dying to return to the site, and to work again with the excellent Hampshire County Council Museums Service team. Continue reading →

Meet the Team – Peter Driver

What you are going to be doing at Basing House? Peter, our talented Artist in Residence I will be ‘Artist in Residence’ during the excavation. I am not certain yet about what kind of work I will make in response to the project. I imagine it will involve a lot of drawing, possibly making woodcut prints and generating a set of ‘zines’ reflecting the activities and progress of the project. Continue reading →

Meet the Team – Jude Jones

What will you be doing at Basing House? Jude, with a hungry hawk, in Hungary! I’ll be managing finds and training students in finds processing. I also hope to be able to assist Gareth in archive digitisation. What you are hoping to experience at Basing House? I specialise in early modern archaeology and have done various analyses of local Tudor, Stuart and Georgian gentry houses, although my most recent work has been on post-medieval parish churches. Continue reading →

Meet the Team – Gareth Beale

What will you be doing at Basing House? Gareth looking very ‘Indiana Jones’ indeed… As well as helping to manage the every day running of the excavation I am also going to be responsible for high tech digital recording. I am going to be showing people how we use high tech recording technologies such as RTI, photogrammetry and laser scanning in archaeological fieldwork. Continue reading →