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Webster Wroxeter Excavation Archive Project - Now Online
The fruits of a project to organise and document the excavation archive from Graham Webster's 30 years of work at Wroxeter have now been made available to researchers on the Archaeology Data Service wesbite.
The Origins of the Project
The Webster Excavation Archive had been returned to the English Heritage store at Atcham over an extended period by the many different specialists and bodies responsible for the post-excavation work, and this piecemeal process resulted in a fragmented archive that was difficult to use.
In 2009, when the complete archive was gathered together in a single place for the first time, an opportunity arose to document and unify the different elements. Following the preparation of a project outline in December 2009, Barbican Research Associates was commissioned by English Heritage to carry out the work. The principle research aim was to organise and document the archive to provide an effective curatorial and research tool.
The Material made available by the Project
The paper archive (including photographs, plans, X-radiograph plates etc) was sorted, re-organised and re-packed.
Duplicate material was removed
A document entitled "Guide to the Wroxeter (Webster) Archive" was produced which describes the material available at Atcham and the boxes in which it is stored.
An Access database was created that can be used as a curatorial and research tool.
This includes
病 stratigraphic table
病 complete small find table using material from the original finds records, the published specialist reports and other information in the archive
病 vessel glass table that provides the concordance between the different published catalogues and the archive catalogue
付he archive coin catalogue;
病n index to the X-radiograph plates
病n index to the photographs of objects taken by the Ancient Monuments Laboratory;
品ndexes to various of the original paper records relating to the site narrative
It should be noted that the database does not include the pottery records.
The database is fully described in the document "Introduction to the Wroxeter (Webster) Archive database".
These Guides, and the database tables listed above, can all be downloaded from the Archaeology Data Service via the link below.
It is hoped that the database information and the guides to the archive will help people wishing to use the material from the archive to quantify their requests and to provide precise references to the items and elements they might wish to see.
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