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New in IA69: Evidencing and ensuring impactful research from developer-funded archaeology by Sadie Watson (MOLA). https://lnkd.in/dCGkgsEd The developer-funded (or contracting) sector of the archaeological profession produces the vast majority of datasets from investigations across the UK, and the formally published outputs from these projects are acknowledged as being of an academic standard. In this paper I examine some examples from my own work and assess their recordable research impact. I also look at the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 submissions and note an almost total absence of datasets showing research collaborations with colleagues from within the contracting sector. This leads me to believe there are perhaps few opportunities for this type of collaborative project, and to think that REF submissions by higher education institutions (HEIs) tend to utilise datasets created by the developer-funded sector, rather than embarking on more meaningfully co-created models of research. I conclude therefore that the developer-funded sector should empower itself to lead the sector in designing a new research and impact landscape whereby new paradigms are established that respond to the environments within which our work materialises. (NB This paper is not about grey literature.) #archaeology #UK #developer-funded #impact #research #socialvalue #publicbenefit #participation

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The A14 Internet Archaeology Monograph is out now! 🏺 280,000 artefacts  ✏️ 119 figures including illustrations, models and videos 📖 120,000 words 🕘 9 years from fieldwork to publication (one of many other resources!) 👨🏫 5 (main) authors and so many other contributing people    Find it all in the one place by following the link 🔗 https://lnkd.in/exQWqmVx   Thankyou to all contributors from fieldwork staff to contributing authors, to specialists and supporters. What an achievement! 🏆

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📊✨ Ever wondered how we track our digital impact? Internet Archaeology uses Matomo to gather insights on journal usage. From visitor numbers to the location of browsers and operating systems, we're able to track the visitors to each of our journal issues and articles. Dive deeper into our analytics here: https://lnkd.in/eE6-p2A6 #DigitalAnalytics #JournalMetrics #UserInsights

❤️ This #ValentinesDay give them what they really want (and it won't cost you a thing)...❤️ That’s right, the A14 Internet Archaeology monograph is now available for FREE From Bronze Age mysteries to Roman dinners and the “elusive 5th century” this is truly the gift that keeps on giving. You can find it all HERE: https://lnkd.in/exQWqmVx And if all of that wasn’t enough, the full digital archive for our A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme excavations is now live on Archaeology Data Service Happy reading! #Archaeology #BritishArchaeology #FindsFriday

I’m thrilled to say that last week the results of the A14 Cambridge-to-Huntingdon Road Improvement Scheme excavations were published. This isn’t any normal archaeological publication, but represents the outcome of nearly a decade’s worth of work by a truly huge team of fieldworkers, specialists, illustrators, managers, and everyone in between. Across a 20km swathe of the Cambridgeshire landscape we excavated and interpreted the remains of palaeolithic megafauna, prehistoric monuments and settlements, a Romano-British landscape, and sites dating throughout the medieval and post-medieval periods including one of the most intensively-excavated Deserted Medieval Villages. The synthetic publication is now available online via Internet Archaeology, with the ADS hosting the digital archive including all of the site reports, specialist reports, and even the site data – a huge resource that we hope will be useful for years to come. Internet Archaeology monograph: https://bit.ly/3ErzZGK ADS archive: https://bit.ly/410ew0m Having managed a team of more than a dozen of the country’s leading pottery experts as part of this project, I want to take the chance to show off some of our achievements, which you can now read all about online. Key among these is an account of the new Roman pottery industry we uncovered around the modern village of Brampton, near Huntingdon. I’m really proud of this piece of work, not least because it allowed myself and the amazing Eniko Hudak to show off what's possible when we apply archaeological theory alongside scientific methods in the study of ancient ceramics: http://bit.ly/4hFWsy6 We called our new industry the Lower Ouse Valley potteries, and the remains uncovered are among the most complete examples of a Romano-British industry of any kind to have been excavated in Britain so far, in no small part because they were dug along with the wider settlement landscape of which they were part. The ancient potters working here appear to have operated largely between about AD 70 and AD 150, and the fact that their kilns were found so closely associated with contemporary farmsteads led us to think that these were probably part-time potters who mostly worked their craft when they weren’t busy farming, with environmental evidence backing up this idea. The potters built at least thirty-three kilns, with some arranged in small groups around workshops and structures designed to dry pots before firing – amazing evidence for the working lives of past craftspeople. While we can’t be sure whether production was on an ‘industrial scale’ (we can never know how many kilns were being worked at any one time) at least one of the potteries had a relatively organised layout, suggesting that the people who worked there might have been more highly organised than elsewhere and possibly producing pottery in considerable quantities.

Several publications on the archaeology of the A14 (and my flints drawings!) are now published on the Internet Archaeology. Pleased to see that the results of this major archaeological excavation are now fully accessible and available for everyone to read!

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