Projects
Recent Projects are listed below in alphabetic order. Where further online information is available, links will be provided to those details. A database of reports is currently in preparation, and can be searched using the form to the right (note: currently searches report text for the exact phrase or word typed - this facility will be upgraded in the near future). |
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Brighton: Sussex Arts Club
Sussex: Desk Based Assessment
Desk Based Assessment and Historic Building Appraisal on the property of 7 Ship Street, Brighton, in advance of a planning application to refurbish the building.
No further details currently online
Immingham: Queen's Road
Lincolnshire: Desk Based Assessment
Desk based assessment of a rural site on the Lincolnshire Marshes, previously used as a gypsum lagoon
A desk based assessment was undertaken on this site on the Lincolnshire Marshes. A trawl of various archives produced little evidence for any potential archaeology, and the site seems to have been marginal land until relatively recently.
No further details currently online
London: Fox & Anchor
: Historic Building Appraisal
Historical appraisal and initial assessment of the Fox and Anchor Public House, Charterhouse Street, Islington.
The desk-based assessment has indicated that a Fox and Anchor public house was present on the site prior to the construction of the facade in 1898 and that some elements of an earlier 19th century structure may survive within the current fabric. The assessment also highlighted the significance of the building's facade and the contribution by its designer, W.J. Neatby, to the listing of the building in 1972.
No further details currently online
Newcastle: Allan House
Northumberland: Historic Building Appraisal
Detailed report on Allan House, previously warehousing for the Tyne Tees Steam Shipping Company
Mike Griffiths & Associates were commissioned by Hotel du Vin to undertake an archaeological building survey and desk-based assessment of the Allan House building on City Road, Ouseburn, Newcastle.
Normanton: Normanton Golf Course
West Yorkshire: Excavation
Field report on the excavation and evaluation at Normanton, West Yorkshire.
Activity from the Neolithic to post-medieval periods has been encountered. A Neolithic flint knife was recovered from topsoil at the site and is the earliest indicator of activity. The investigation was concentrated on a substantial rectilinear enclosure dated by pottery and radiocarbon dating to between the 5th C BC and the 2nd C AD.
Timms, S. 2005. Normanton Golf Course, Normanton, West Yorkshire. Excavation & Evaluation
Nosterfield: Nosterfield Quarry
North Yorkshire: Watching Brief
Ongoing large scale watching brief at this quarry near the Thornborough Henges, North Yorkshire.
Mike Griffiths & Associates have been involved in a watching brief at the Nosterfield Quarry since 1995. Over this period the fieldwork has been undertaken by a number of organisations, and has revealed aspects of an immensely rich prehistoric landscape around the Thornborough Henges.
Poole: The Mansion House
Dorset: Desk Based Assessment
Desk based assessment on behalf of the Hotel Du Vin for the Mansion House, Poole, Dorset
The desk based assessment identified the potential for below ground archaeological deposits relating to the medieval waterfront within the boundary of the site. The current buildings are of a 18th and 19th century date and are all listed.
The western boundary of the site comprises a Scheduled Ancient Monument and is listed as Town Walls West of Thames Street . It would appear more likely that the walls are the standing remains of a boundary wall related to a large house in the 16th century referred to in archive documents of the period. It is likely that archaeological deposits relating to this building are present within the boundary of the site
No further details currently online
Sheffield: 74 Edmund Road
South Yorkshire: Historic Building Appraisal
Report on a historic building in Sheffield, also known as Clough Lodge
Mike Griffiths & Associates were commissioned by Unite Group to undertake a historic building appraisal of a single existing building on Clough Road, Sheffield. This building, Clough Lodge, is set back from the northern street frontage, approximately twenty metres west of Edmund Road.
Hopkinson, G. 2006. 74 Edmund Road, Sheffield: Historic Building Appraisal
Sheffield: Klaussners Site
South Yorkshire: Desk Based Assessment
The investigation of cartographic and documentary sources identified a number of historic metal trade buildings and associated structures that once stood within the boundaries of the site between the 18th and 20th centuries. These included the Chantrey Works (later known as Crown Steel Works), the Porter Foundry and the southern range of the Sylvester Works. In addition to metal trade buildings the desk based assessment also identified former lines of the Porter Brook which had been excavated and remodelled on a number of occasions in the 19th century. At least two backfilled goits relating to this work have been identified within the site boundary.
No further details currently online
Sheffield: Portland Works
South Yorkshire: Desk Based Assessment
Examination of the Ordnance Survey evidence shows that the plan of the current Portland Works, and hence much of its structural configuration, remains essentially unchanged from the original late 19th-century building. This is confirmed by visual assessment of the site. For this reason it has been assigned a Grade II listing.
Limited examination of the building indicates that few if any fittings/machinery or other devices related to the original function of the works survive in situ. The significance of the building lies in its persisting historical layout and plan form.
No further details currently online
Shrewsbury: Battlefield Farm
Shropshire: Heritage Management
Providing archaeological and heritage consultancy
Archaeological investigation and heritage mangement of a battlefield site in Shropshire
No further details currently online
Syningthwaite: Priory Farm
North Yorkshire: Evaluation
Ongoing evaluation work around a listed building on English Heritage Buildings at Risk register
The various areas of the site evaluated have encountered a range of archaeological survival. Within the courtyard area no archaeological features were present. To the south of the farm buildings the evaluation revealed the presence of a well preserved sequence of archaeological features dated to the medieval and post medieval period.
No further details currently online
Thornborough
North Yorkshire: Watching Brief
Currently in development, this will eventually replace the Nosterfield section of this site
Synthesis of various investigations around the Thornborough Henges, aiming to present reports and raw data via an online GIS.
York: 89 The Mount
North Yorkshire: Evaluation
Evaluation, undertaken by On-Site Archaeology, at 89 The Mount, York.
Various investigations have taken place between 1991 and 2002, and work is now underway on further excavation. The previous work suggests that archaeological potential varies across the site. No evidence of burial rites had previously been identified, but the current phase of work has unearthed a Roman inhumation.
York: Bluebridge Lane & Fishergate House
North Yorkshire: Excavation
Publication report on the excavations at Bluebridge Lane, Fishergate.
Post-excavation work is now complete following the excavation of a number of sites at Bluebridge Lane. The on-line publication arising from this work is now available as part of the APC Monograph Series.
York: Heworth Croft
North Yorkshire: Building Assessment & evaluation
A scheme of archaeological evaluation was undertaken for Bellway Homes (Yorkshire) Ltd
Results from the evaluation suggested the presence of a Roman road postulated from the presence of a Roman ditch interpreted as a flanking ditch. Residual Roman pottery and cremated human bone also suggested the presence of a Roman cemetery disturbed by later Roman and medieval activity
York: Mill Mount, The Mount
North Yorkshire: Excavation
Post-excavation Assessment.
Work has revealed part of the Roman cemetery, represented by both cremations and inhumations. A total of two cremations, thirteen coffined inhumations and a stone sarcophagus with gypsum-type burial were encountered. Subsequently, the site appears to have been put to more domestic use. The report is currently available in pdf format.
Spall, C. & Toop, N. 2005. Post-excavation Assessment, Mill Mount, York