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Proceedings
Proceedings
are published annually and are distributed to members without charge.
Below is the list of contents from the most recent volumes.
The highlighted
papers can be read online by clicking on the hyperlink.
The complete collection
of Proceedings and their index volumes may be read at:
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Somerset Studies Library, Paul Street
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Contents
Volume 152 - 2008

John Locke
and Somerset
- Roger Woolhouse
Pehistoric ritual landscapes and other remains at Field Farm, Shepton Mallet
- Peter Leach
Investigations of late prehistoric and Romano-British settlement at Huntworth,
2006
- Andrew B Powell. Lorraine Mepham and Chris J Stevens
An early medieval estate in the Isle valley of south Somerset and the early
endowments of Muchelney Abbey
- Mick Aston
Excavation of an early medieval site at Brent Knoll, Somerset
- Donna E Y Young
Kelston in Domesday Book
- F R Thorn
Former medieval open fields in the eastern Blackdowns
- Roger W Carter
Excavation of an early medieval site at West Wick, Weston-super-Mare
- Kelly Powell
Two recently discovered Civil War hoards from Somerset
- Naomi Payne
Wrought iron windows in Somerset
- John McCann
From Taunton to the Pyrenees: the Revd William Arthur Jones and the early
days of the Society
- David Rabson
Shorter Papers:
The context and significance of a Palaeolithic
hand-axe from Winscombe - Phil Harding and Mick Aston
Prehistoric standing stones in Banwell
- Nick Corcos and Bob Smisson
The story of a stone adze from Winscombe
parish - Mick Aston
The silver siliquae from Green
Cutting, Kingshams, Ilchester - James Gerrard
St Michael's Church, Seavington: archaeologcal
excavation of the nave and chancel - Alan Graham
A Medieval English hand 'reliquary'
from Glastonbury Abbey? - T F Hopkinson-Ball
Building recording in 2008 - The Somerset Vernacular Building Research
Group
Finds reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme in 2008 - Naomi Payne
and Anna Booth
Book reviews edited by Stephen Croad
Somerset archaeology, 2008 edited by C J Webster
Ecology in Somerset:
Tributes to Pat Hill-Cottingham
Hoverfly report - Dave and Ted Levy
Book reviews
Proceedings of the Society
Additions to the Library and articles from non-Somerset periodicals relevant
to Somerset - David Bromwich
Associated Societies 2007-8
Contents of recent SANHS volumes
Index - Peter Ellis
Volume 151 - 2007

Shapwick,
Domesday Book and the Polden Estate
- F. R.Thorn
Iron Age, medieval and recent activity at Whitegate Farm, Bleadon, North Somerset
- Donna E.Y. Young
Woolston Manor Farm, North Cadbury: an outline report of fieldwork in 2006-7
by the South Cadbury Environs Project
- Richard Tabor
The Fransiscan Friary and Civil War defences at Friarn Meadows, Bridgwater
- James Wright and Armour Chelu
The bishop and the guild: the Wells cisis of 1341-3
- Tony Scrase
The Fosse Way and other Roman roads around Bath: excavations and interpretations
since 1997
- Peter Davenport
An early medieval secular and ecclesiastical estate: the origins of the parish
of Winscombe in North Somerset
- Mick Aston and Michael Costen
Clicket, a co-location of habitation
- Richard Sandover
The west Somerset woollen trade, 1500-1714
- Philip Ashford
Shorter papers:
A Carthusian grange at Green Ore on Mendip
- Pip Osborne
A prehistoric wooden artifact from the
Axe valley - Nick Corcos
Lithic finds from Larkbarrow Farm, Exmoor
- Richard McDonnell
A medieval seal matrix from Baltonsborough
- T F Hopkinson-Ball
Building recording in 2007 - The Somerset Vernacular Building Research
Group
Finds reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme in 2007 - Naomi Payne
Book reviews edited by Stephen Croad
Somerset archaeology, 2007 edited by T S Bagwell and C J Webster
Ecology in Somerset edited by Pat Hill-Cottingham
Overlapping footprints: gauging threats
from development - M. Anderson
Monitoring survey of Segmentina Nitida
(Müller 1774) on Catcott North Reserve, August 2007 - Pat Hill-Cottingham
Glow-worm Lampyris Noctiluca: a
study in a Mendip village - Peter Bright
Hoverfly report - D and T Levy
Book reviews
Obituary: Norman Quinnell - Peter Ellis
Additions to the Library 2007 - David Bromwich
Some articles of Somerset interest in non-Somerset periodicals received during
2007 - David Bromwich
Volume 150 - 2006

A Bronze
Age field and figure from Hillfarrance
- Timothy Gent and Stephen Reed
Excavations at Ham Hill quarry, Hamdon Hill, Montacute, 2002
- Matt Leivers
An archipeligo in central Somerset: the origins of Muchelney Abbey
- Mick Aston
Excavation and building study at Cleeve Abbey, 1995-2003
- Richard Parker, Tony Ives and John Allan
Building recording in 2006 - The Somerset Vernacular Building Research
Group
Shorter papers:
A collection of lithic artifacts from
Ash Priors near Taunton - Christopher Norman
Archaeological recording at the Kings
Wessex School playing fields, Cheddar - Janice C Grove with Lorraine Mepham
and Rob Goller
Piscina in All Saints' curch Trull - Mark
McDermott
Book reviews edited by Stephen Croad
Somerset archaeology, 2006 edited by T.S. Bagwell and C.J. Webster
Ecology in Somerset edited by Pat Hill-Cottingham
A practical assessment of the limitations
of the Predictive System for Multimetrics ((PSYM) approach to pond classification
- Pat Hill-Cottingham and Anthony Godwin Smith
Uresiphita reversalis (Guenee, 1854)
(LEP: Pyralidae) new to British Isles and possibly Europe - Tony Davis
and Doug Miller
Book reviews
Obituaries:
Mrs S Rawlins - R W Dunning
John R B S Penoyre - Mark McDermott
Additions to the Library 2006 - David Bromwich
Some articles of Somerset interest in non-Somerset periodicals received during
2006 - David Bromwich
Volume 149 - 2005

Medieval
domestic and church roofs in Somerset
- Mark McDermott
Excavation of a Romano-British farmstead at RNAS Yeovilton
- Julie Lovell
Polydore Vergil's hangings in the quire of Wells Cathedral
- Oliver Harris
Excavation and geophysical survey of the Roman settlement at Charterhouse
on Mendip
- Alex T Smith and Richard Brown
The Somerset Dendrochronology Project: phases 5 and 6
- Mark McDermott
Building recording in 2005
- Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group
Romano-British, late Saxon and medieval remains at Cheddar: excavations in
2001
- Derek Evans and Annette Hancocks
Keynsham Abbey excavations 1961-91 Final Report. Part II: summary and review
- Barbara Lowe
The Introduction of the Brown Rat (Ratus Norvegicus)
- John McCann
A late medieval screen fragment from Glastonbury Abbey
- T F Hopkinson-Ball
Medieval remains at Downs Farm, Walton
- Peter Leach
Priddy Hill, Mendip
- Brian Hack
Book Reviews
- edited by Stephen Croad
Somerset Archaeology
- C J Webster and T L Bagwell
Ecology in Somerset
- edited by Pat Hill Cottingham
The changing flora of Somerset: the retreat of cold-climate plants
- Linda Carter
Native Orthopteroids in Somerset: risk of loss
- Mark Anderson
Freshwater Mollusca in Somerset: risk of loss
- Pat Hill Cottingham
Climate change and the Long-winged Cone-head
- Mark Anderson
Hoverflies
- Ted Levy and Dave Levy
An alien flatworm kontika ventrolineata recorded in Somerset
- Pat Hill Cottingham
Book Reviews
Professor Leslie Alcock - memories of Cadbury Castle: an obituary
Volume 148 - 2004

Bradley Hill,
Somerset, and the end of Roman Britain: a study in continuity?
- James Gerrard
Evidence for the medieval hamlets of Pykeash and Ash Boulogne: archaeological
excavations at Ash
- Alan Graham
John Spreat, steward at Chipley, Somerset from 1689 to the 1720s
- Bridget Clarke
Keynsham Abbey excavations 1961-85: final report. Part 1 The architecture
- B Lowe, S A Harrison and M Thurlby
Somerset Archaeology, 2004
- C J Webster
Building recording in 2004
- Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group
Book Reviews
- edited by Stephen Croad
Ecology in Somerset
- edited by Pat Hill Cottingham
Taming a wetland wilderness: Romano-British and medieval reclamation in the
Somerset Levels and Moors
- Stephen Rippon
Unique, unrivalled and disappearing. What hope for Somerset's wetland heritage?
- Richard Brunning
The irrigation of the Levels
- Francis Farr-Cox
Water and wildlife on the Levels
- Martin Drake
The plant life of ditches on the Levels
- Stephanie Greshon
Ecology and conservation of the Lesser Silver Water Beetle Hydrochara Caraboides
on the Levels
- David Boyce
Conservation of a rare snail Segmentina Nitida Shining Ram's Horn:
problems and possible solutions
- Pat Hill-Cottingham
What future for the Somerset Levels and Moors?
- Christopher Hancock
Volume 147 - 2003

Early ecclesiastical
sites in Somerset: three case studies
- Michael Calder
TABOR, Richard, Prehistoric Pottery distribution in the surrounding landscape
- Richard Tabor
Excavation at Charterhouse on Mendip, 1994-6: Mesollithic and early Neolithic
settlement
- Malcolm Todd
Sir Thomas Gurney of Englishcombe in the county of Somerset: regicide?
- Roy Martin Haines
Hill Farm,Kingston St Mary
- Mary Ewing
A late medieval timber frame at nos 21-22 High St Bath
- Michael Heaton and Peter Davenport
Roman and Medieval remains at Manor Farm, Castle Cary
- Peter Leach and Peter Ellis
The geography of Regilbury Manor, 1730
- Richard Dunn
Archaeological investigations at Templecombe, 1995
- Phil Harding and others
A medieval packhorse bridge at Dowlish Wake, near Ilminster
- Alan Graham
Pensford and the growth of the cloth industry in late medieval Somerset
- John Hare
Further information on the life of Charles Moore (1815-1881), Somerset geologist
- H M Torrens and Michael Taylor
The Barwick Park follies
- Hugh Prudden
Saxon timber from Porlock Marsh
- Richard McDonnell
Roman Pottery from the Charterhouse valley
- Malcolm Todd
Somerset Archaeology, 2003
- Edited by C J Webster
Building recording in 2003
- Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group
Ecology in Somerset: forward
- Pat Hill-Cottingham
The use of Vascular plants as indicators of ancient woodland in Somerset
- R J Thompson and others
Handedness in the British Planorbiidae
- Pat Hill-Cottingham
Effects of mechanical clearing, and its cessation, on the strandline at Sand
Bay
Hazel Willmott and Tony Smith
Volume 146 - 2002

Joseph Clark
III's reminiscences about the Somerset fossil reptile collector Thomas Hawkins
(1810-1889): " Very near the borderline between eccentricity and criminal
insanity"
- Michael A. Taylor
Stoney Littleton long barrow: archaeological investigations and observations
1999- 2000
- Alan Thomas
Archaeological survey work at Larkbarrow Farm
- Elaine Jamieson
Somerset Building Stone - a guide
- Hugh Prudden
Medieval archaeological features at Church Street, Milborne Port
- Alex T. Smith
Excavations at a Saxo-Norman settlement, Bickley, Cleeve, 1982-89
- Michael Ponsford
A resistivity survey on the site of the residence of the medieval bishops
of Bath and Wells at Blackford
- Naomi Payne
Sixteenth-century enclosure at Ston Easton
- G.A.J. Loxton
Somerset Archaeology, 2002
- edited by C.J. Webster
A new sea dragon From discovery to
display
- Dennis Parsons
Cynosorus cristatus caltha palustris grassland at West Sedgemoor
- Hilary L Wallace, Mike V Prosser
Northern yellow cress at Clatworthy reservoir
- I.P. Green, S.J. Leach, E.J. McDonnell, S.J. Parker
The ornate hoverfly
- E.T. Levy & D.A. Levy
Somerset Hoverfly Report 2002
- E.T. Levy & D.A. Levy
Book Reviews
Volume 145 - 2001

Scholars
in our Society's Past
- R W Dunning
Mesolithic to Bronze Age activity at Parchey Sand Batch, Chedzoy
- Christopher Norman
Archaeology and the M5 Motorway: the gazetteer of sites in Somerset
- David Dawson, Madge Langdon, Brian Murless, Marion Newsom, Michael
Ponsford, and C J Webster
Iron Age material from Charterhouse on Mendip
- Malcolm Todd
Excavations at Hillyfields, Upper Holway, Taunton
- Peter Leach
The great rood of Glastonbury
- Julian M Luxford
The Victorian and Second World War artillery batteries on Brean Down
- C J Webster
The Somerset population prior to the census of 1801
- John Oswin
Yatton Armorial glass
- Nicholas A Deas
Somerset Archaeology, 2001
- edited by C J Webster
Book Reviews
Ecology in Somerset - edited by Pat Hil-Cottingham
Colonisation by saltmarsh of former agricultural
land - Simon J Leach et al.
Predation of freshwater snails - Graham M Rix
and Pat Hill-Cottingham
The HIstory of Sharpham Moor Plot - Graham
M Rix
Somerset hoverfly report 1999-2001 - E T Levy
and D A Levy
Book Reviews
Volume 144 - 2000

Sigwells,
Charlton Horethorne: the identification, interpretation and testing of Bronze
Age to early medieval landscapes by geophysical survey and excavation
- Richard Tabor and Paul Johnson
A Bronze Age decorated cist from Pool Farm, West Harptree: new analyses
- John Coles, Hildur Gestsdóttir, and Stephen Minnitt
A charter for Abbascombe
- M. Pallister, J. Eastaugh, and F. Milton
Excavations on Iron Age and Romano-British settlements at Cannards Grave,
Shepton Mallet
- Vaughan Birbeck
Bourne and Burrington: a Burnantun estate?
- Nick Corcos
Excavations at the County Hotel, Taunton, 19956
- Andrew Hutcheson and Phil Andrews
The fairs and markets of Norton
St Philip
- Colin J. Brett
Somerset millennium books
- Mark McDermott
Two aspects of sampling
- Pat Hill-Cottingham
Notes:
A statuette of Mercury from Ilchester
- Martin Henig and Stephen Minnitt
A late-Saxon comb handle from Bawdrip
- C. and N. Hollinrake
A Roman burial at Coates barn, Greinton
- Peter Leach
St Georges churchyard, Hinton St George
- Alan Graham
Somerset Archaeology, 2000
- edited by C.J. Webster
Book reviews
Volume 143 - 1999

Iron Age
and Romano-British sites along the Bowden reservoir link pipeline, south-east
Somerset
- Caron Newman and Elaine L Morris, with David Bonner
Thomas Kytson and Somerset clothmen, 1529-1539
- Colin J Brett
Excavations at Newton St. Lowe Castle, 1975-1984
- Christopher J Arnold
The Whitmarsh Family, carriers and coachmasters of Taunton and Yeovil, 1685-1848
- Dorian Gerhold
A columbarium at Compton Martin church
- John McCann, Mark McDermott and Frank Pexton
A survey of the mid C19 buildings of the Chard canal basin and wharves
- Alan Graham
Charterhouse on Mendip: interim report on excavations in 1995
- Malcom Todd
Wells Cathedral: west front excavations, 1987-1989
- Charles and Nancy Hollinrake
Somerset Archaeology
- edited by C J Webster
Somerset County Museums Service: summary list of accessions 1997-1999
Book reviews
Volume 142 - 1998

The excavations
at the reredorter at Cleeve Abbey
- C J Guy
Cleeve Abbey: The Pottery
- J Allan
Excavations at Ham Hill, Montacute, Somerset, 1994 and 1998
- J J McKinley
Ilchester Great Yard archaeological excavations 1995
- R A Broomhead
Somerset Archaeology 1998
- C J Webster
Brays and Laceys: a Crewkerne affair and its C16 context
- M Barrett
Memories of the Anglo-Saxon past at Wells Cathedral, 1175-1230
- M M Reeve
Mr Newcomen's friend
- A P Woolrich
A Decoy Town on Blackdown
- J Schofield
The Somerset estates of the Vicars Choral of Wells
- R G Hill
Somerset Dendrochronology, phase 3
- J & J Penoyre
King Eadred of Wessex
- P A Goold
Supplementary notes on bench-ends in Trull Church
- M McDermott
Puckington in the Middle Ages
- E Ellerington
Excavations at Dod Lane, Glastonbury, 1993
- Wessex Archaeology
Botany notes, 1998
- I Green
Volume 141 - 1997

The two Lions
at Milborne Port
- Rita Wood
Geological impacts on coastal wetland landscapes: sea level rise, with illustrations
from the River Banwell
- J R L Allen
Ilchester Archaeology: a watching brief and salvage excavations at Ivel House,
1997
- Peter Ellis and Peter Leach
Economy and society in
C18 Somerset: evidence from neglected sources
- James H Thomas
Medieval Somerset roofs
- Jane Penoyre
The Bishop's Palace at Wookey
- John H Winstone
The building of a barn, byre and carthouse in the Manor of Street between
1340 and 1343
- M G Thomson
Leigh Court, Thomas Hopper and Pythouse
- William Evans
Sir James Thornhill, Dorothy Luttrell and the Chapel in Dunster Castle, 1721-1723
- Jeremy Barker
Garnival's Week: a late C13 base-cruck house in Milverton
- Mark McDermott
Somerset County MPs, 1832-1885: a profile
- Brian Elvins
French emigres at Bath,
1789-1815
- Trevor Fawcett
Somerset Archaeology, 1997
- C J Webster and R A Croft
Medieval effigies at Bawdrip and Huntspill
- Mark Downing
A possible foundry at Ash Priors
- Laurie Walker
The Maltwood Fund
The Treasure Act, 1996
- David Dawson
Botany Notes, 1997
- Ian Green
Book Reviews
Ceramic finds from Glastonbury Abbey (reprint)
Volume 140 - 1997

Charles Moore
(1814-1881), Somerset geologist
- C J T Copp, M A Taylor and J C Thackray
The Cupola near Bristol (smelting lead with pitcoal)
- P W King
A geophysical survey of the gardens of West Bower Manor
- Oliver Jessop
Stained glass from Glastonbury
- Anthony Lewis
An iron age shield mount from Meare Village East Lake village
- A P Fitzpatrick
Ceramic finds from archaeological excavation at Glastonbury Abbey, 1901-1979
- Oliver Kent
Dr Joshua Parsons (1814-1892) of Beckington, Somerset general practitioner
- Spence Galbraith
Some Bruton town houses
- Jane and John Penorye
Somerset archaeology 1996
- C J Webster and R A Croft
Abbot Aelred Watkin - an obituary
- Dom Philip Jebb
Dr C A Ralegh Radford - an obituary
- Robert Dunning
Joan Davena Peden - an obituary
- Colin Clements
White-clawed crayfish in the River Tone: status and projections
- R J Thompson
Eel populations in rivers in the Somerset catchment
- Francis Farr-Cox
Hoverflies in wood: an example of management conflict
- Pat Hill-Cottingham
Mollusc atlas project
- Pat Hill-Cottingham
Somerset lepidoptera 1996
- Tony Liebert and Roger Sutton
Volume 139 - 1996

The resident gentry of Somerset in 1502
- Michael Havinden
Excavations at Benedict Street, Glastonbury 1993
- Richard Brunning et al
The South Cadbury environs project
- Peter Leach and Richard Tabor
Archaeological sites along the Ilchester to Odcombe pipeline
- Andrew Crockett
Excavation at West Huntspill, 1993
- Margaret Heslop and Madge Langdon
Roman settlement and salt production on the Somerset coast
- Stephen Rippon
A Romano-British building at Crimbleford Knap, Seavington St Mary
- A H Graham and J M Mills
The restoration of Stocklinch Magdalen church
- Mark McDermott
Examples of imported earthenware
- R J C Coleman-Smith
Somerset archaeology 1995
- C J Webster and R A Croft
The Rt Hon. the Earl Waldegrave, K.G.: obituary
- T W Mayberry
John Frederick Lawrence
- Chris Sidaway
Eileen Mary Davey
- Chris Sidaway
The loss of unimproved
grassland in Somerset, from 1930s to 1990s
- Maree Whyte
Agrostis stolonifera-carex spp. grassland
- Wendy P Cox and Simon J Leach
Diversity or biodiversity? woodland management in a modern context
- Tony Smith
Somerset lepidoptera
1995
- Tony Liebert and Roger Sutton
Volume 138 - 1995

The experience
of the Civil War in the West
- Ronald Hutton
Excavations at Glastonbury Abbey 1987-1993
- Humphrey Woods
Charterhouse on Mendip: interim report on excavations in 1994
- Malcolm Todd
A medieval farmhouse at Meadow Vale Farm, near Wincanton
- Caron Newman, Lorraine Mepham and David Bonner
Lancin Farmhouse, Wambrook
- John Dallimore
Burrow Mump: a revision
- Robert Dunning
Early bench-ends in All Saints' Church, Trull
- Mark McDermott
Nineteenth century Bath-stone walled graves at St Nicholas's church Bathampton
- Margaret Cox and Gwynne Stock
The landed estates of Somerset since 1873
- Peter Dale-Thomas
Note: field survey and excavation of two linear wooden features at Hooper's
Ground, Westhay Heath. 1992
- Margaret Cox
Somerset archaeology 1994
- C J Webster and R A Croft
Somerset County Museums Service: summary list of accessions 1994
Test management project, Catcott Parish Plot: a suggested method for the control
of Molinia caerulea
- Pat Hill-Cottingham and Dennis Hill-Cottingham
The native black poplar in Somerset, particularly in Taunton Deane
- M Anderson and J Crampin
Atlas flora of Somerset project 1994
- Ian P Green, Paul R Green and Geraldine A Crouch
The mollusc atlas project
- Colin Gillard
Reports from specialist groups: Somerset Bat Group
- Ed Wells
Reports from specialist groups: Somerset Moth Group
- Keith Brown
Reports from specialist groups: Somerset Invertebrates Group
- Pat Hill-Cottingham
Reports from specialist groups: Somerset Lepidoptera1994
- Tony Liebert
Reports from specialist groups: Somerset Hoverfly Records 1994
- E T Levy and D A Levy