Somerset Historic Environment Publications

We are endeavouring to rebuild our publications pages but in the meantime some reports can be downloaded from the list below.

General Publications

• Heritage Service Archaeological Handbook

• Heritage Service Annual Report for 2002

• Heritage Service Annual Report for 2006/7

• Guide to the Somerset Historic Landscape Characterisation

Project Reports

Fairfield Project

• Fairfield 2009

RAF Culmhead

• Report on RAF Culmhead (screen version)
  Report on RAF Culmhead (print version)

Aerial Photographic Surveys

• Report on the Claylands Survey 1 (1984-5)
  Report on the Claylands Survey 2 (1985-6)

• Report on the Quantock Hills AONB Survey (1989)

• Report on the Mendip Hills AONB Survey (1992)

Online Book Publictions

Somerset Archaeology: Papers to Mark 150 Years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. Edited by CJ Webster

A collection of papers on all aspects of the archaeology of Somerset arising from a conference held at Dillington in 1999 to celebrate 150 years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. Published as a book in 2000 and online in 2007 - the book is now out of print.

• Front Matter

• 150 years of Somerset Archaeology: looking backwards and into the next millennium by Philip Rahtz

• Aerial reconnaissance in Somerset by Frances Griffith and Bill Horner

• Finding our past: the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Somerset and Dorset by Ciorstaidh Hayward Trevarthen

• The skill of the Neolithic bowyers: reassessing the past through experimental archaeology by Stuart Prior

• Cadbury Castle: focusing the landscape by Richard Tabor

• The Shapwick Project 1989-99 by Christopher Gerrard

• The Quaternary mammal collections at the Somerset County Museum, Taunton by Andrew Currant

• The Late Pleistocene Archaeology of Somerset by Roger Jacobi

• Early humans in the Vale of Taunton: a new perspective by Chris Norman

• A consideration of Somerset's holocene environments by Vanessa Straker

• Neolithic and Bronze Age Somerset: a wetland perspective by Richard Brunning

• The Iron Age wetlands of central Somerset by Stephen Minnitt

• The Dark Ages by Chris Webster

• Clayland colonisation: recent work on Romano-British and medieval reclamation in the Somerset Levels by Stephen Rippon

• Medieval Rural settlement by Mick Aston

• Monasteries in Somerset by Mick Aston

• Somerset parks and gardens after the Middle Ages: the archaeology of the formal garden, c.1540-1730 by James Bond

• Whither (or wither?) Somerset's industrial heritage by Brian Murless

• The notable 1990s: an important decade for the historic environment of Exmoor by Veryan Heal

• Post-Medieval pottery studies in Somerset by John Allan

• Twenty-five years of planning and archaeology in Somerset by Bob Croft

• Bibliography