Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society

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:
   -The Society Offices, Taunton Castle
            -The Somerset Studies Library, Paul Street
        -The Records Office, Obridge Road       

A full contents index of the complete collection can be seen on Proceedings Contents

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, 1995–6
  - 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 Coate’s barn, Greinton
  - Peter Leach
St George’s 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)