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Archaeology UK - the home of ARCHI, the archaeological sites index,map,history,tithe,ancient,earthwork, ngr, database
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ARCHI History
Archaeology UK has been created as a portal around the "ARCHI" database which we have developed over the past eight years.
The database was initially constructed to address the lack of easily available information relating to the distrubution of archaeological sites. This was particularly evident during my time as a student of archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
A well presented assignment would require a knowledge of the distribution of UK archaeological sites and how the landscape / geology / availability of materials etc could influence that distribution. However, one could not begin to discuss the latter without a knowledge of the former and as it was very difficult at the time to find the precise site locations within the literature, it was necessary to create my own database holding this information.
