Q&A with Sari Altschuler, Author of The Medical Imagination
Today at The Junto, Rachel Herrmann interviews Sari Altschuler about her book, The Medical...
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Guest Post: The “Scotch War”: Scotophobia and the War of American Independence
Today at the Junto, guest poster Tim Worth discusses Scotophobia in the American...
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Battlefield Archaeology of Basingstoke Common
This year there were lots of different research projects being carried out on site whilst we were excavating in the New House. Many of these were being carried out by postgraduate students. One of these students has written a blog post about his research.
The Trustees of Basingstoke Common kindly granted us permission to survey the Common using various techniques. Sam, Richard and Colin visited us at Basing House to support the survey of the Common, led by Dom Barker, University of Southampton.
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Magnetometer Survey at Basing Common
After the successes of the surveys and excavation at Basing House in 2014, a second season of work is being conducted by the Basing House CAT project (http://basinghouseproject.org/) directed by Nicole and Gareth Beale. Work on the excavation is ongoing, and can be seen on the project blog. In addition to this work, however, further geophysical survey is also being conducted on Basing Common.
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The 2014 Excavation Season is here!
Goodness me, it has been a busy three days! We have arrived on site and have been busily removing turf and beginning to set out how we are going to work on the archaeology that we are already uncovering. This site is so rich in standing remains and there are thousands of bricks just inches under the surface.
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A ‘17th Century’ Slipware Mug – by Jamie Ingram
Jamie Ingram dug at Basing House in Summer 2013, as part of a team of undergraduate students. This winter, Jamie wrote an essay inspired by an object found at Basing House. Jamie wrote this essay as part of a module that he was taking entitled: The Social Lives of Objects. Delivered by Dr.
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Interim Report 2013 – Finds
This Interim Report will soon be available as a PDF on the Hampshire County Council website for Basing House.
The authors are:
David Allen
Gareth Beale
Nicole Beale
Chris Elmer
Jude Jones
Kristian Strutt
Clare Allen
Daniel Jones
There are three posts that make up this report. The post below describes the excavation and recording methodology and outlines the research question for the dig for 2013.
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Civil War Inspired Music
Each day that we’re digging, we’ll be driving to site from the University of Southampton to Basing House. That means that each day we have nearly two hours to fill. We’ve been putting together a Civil War themed playlist to wile away the time. So far, we only have 8 or so tracks.
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Spring Survey – Week 2 Review
Reblogged from Basing House CAT Project:
The undergraduates have finished working at Basing House for this Spring, and we'll be back on site in a few weeks to collect more data for some of our postgraduate students who are using the site for various projects.
This is the team from Week 2.
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Basing House Survey Final Day – A rain check and some reflections
The second week of survey at Basing House finished on Friday in a spray of mud and rain, hailstones and inky cloud. What had promised to be a reasonable day quickly became unworkable, wet and cold. The teams set out for the final day of survey, focusing on completion of the magnetometry and resistivity in the area of the New House and outer bailey, and GPR over the outer bailey also. We abandoned the magnetic susceptibility to ensure that all hands were working on the res and mag.
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