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Northamptonshire Archaeology journals available online
The first 19 volumes of the Society journal (1966-1984) are now available as free downloads through the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) electronic archaeological library, ArchLib, which offers access to a wide range of archaeological journals and books online, enabling you to search and buy the material through one easy website.  This is a developing resource and the CBA are keen for more organisations to join so that it can become a 'one stop shop' for anyone in need of published information about archaeology.  NAS is currently leading the way with the largest collection of journals available, and we intend to add more in the near future.

You can access ArchLib via the CBA website.  Follow the links to Publications and ArchLIB or directly through this link.  Once on the ArchLib site click on the NAS logo (the Desborough mirror shown at the top left of this page) which will take you to the Society page with the option to view all articles in Northamptonshire Archaeology, or follow one of the various other search options.

You will be taken to a full list of all the individual articles from journals 1-19, which are available free of charge to all.  The first eight issues comprise the Bulletins of the Northamptonshire Federation of Archaeological Societies, with the whole of each issue available as a single download, while from volume 9 onward the individual journal articles are available, as well as all the notes and annual round-ups.

For each article you can view the opening page to look at the summary, or you can immediately Add to cart, which takes you to the Download Page.  For the free articles you can open the downloadable file and save or print it.  All articles are in pdf format so you will need Adobe Reader, which is available as a free download through the links on the Download Page.

There is also a Search Term option, so you can select articles from Northamptonshire Archaeology (and any of the other journals available) to suit your particular interests by location, period or theme.  The NAS website also contains a full index to the journals so you can research and select the required articles in advance.

This material has all been supplied to members over the past two years on the CDs attached to the journals, and we are now making it available to all through the CBA website.  All older journals will be free of charge, while for the last five years there will be a charge of �4.00 per article, with any receipts split between the CBA, to contribute to running costs, and the Society, so we may generate a small income when the more recent material is added.

Please have a look at the NAS material and the journals on offer from other societies.

NASNews
A regular newsletter is sent to all members to inform them of meetings, conferences, public lectures and specially arranged visits to sites of archaeological or historic interest. It also publicises the activities of other historical and archaeological groups within the County.

The latest issue (October 2009) is available in pdf format (195Kb).

Contents:
Back Issues available:
June 2009 (pdf, 258Kb) New Stanwick Lakes Visitor Centre, Archaeological Tour of Stanwick Lakes, Northamptonshire Archaeology journals now available online, Whitehall Roman Villa Open Day, Festival of British Archaeology, English Heritage Festival of History weekend, The Medieval Landscape of Nassington: a Guided Walk, NAS Visit to Piddington Roman Villa excavations.
April 2009 (pdf, 55Kb) RESCUE AGM and meeting, Council for British Archaeology (South Midlands) Spring Conference with the theme "Grist to the mill: recent work on windmills and watermills" , feedback on Northamptonshire Archaeology Vol. 35 (2008) and Vol. 36 (2009) in preparation.
October 2008 (pdf, 57Kb) NAS AGM details with public lecture by Professor Stephen Upex ("Roman Settlement and Landscape in the Lower Nene Valley") - Northampton Archaeology Vol. 35 published - subscription reminder - Higham Ferrers Archaeology and Research Society.
July 2008 (pdf, 1Mb) National Archaeology Week - National Archaeology Day report - recent publications.
March 2008 (pdf, 127Kb) Northamptonshire Archaeology Day publicity - upcoming Northampton Archaeology Vol. 35 - Portable Antiquiities Scheme in Northamptonshire and list of surgeries - 2007 AGM minutes.
October 2007 (pdf, 24Kb) NAS AGM details with public lecture by Bill Boismier ("Fear and Loathing in the Middle Palaeolithic") - Northampton Archaeology Vol. 34 - subscription reminder - "A New Museum for Northampton?" article.
July 2007 (pdf, 24Kb) National Archaeology Week publicity - Northamptonshire Archaeology and Northamptonshire Record Office Open Day - archaeological walk and talk by Dewi Morrison - opportunity to help out at Prebendal Manor excavation.
October 2006 (pdf, 24Kb) NAS AGM with public lecture by Andrew Selkirk - recent publications - NAS journal back issues available as well as other older publications.
April 2006 (rtf) "Council Axes Heritage Service" article - new Chair and Journal Editor - back issues of NAS journal available - Northampton Archaeology Vol. 32 out and 33 upcoming - 30th Anniversary photographic competition - Portable Antiquities Scheme newsletter no. 4 available.
October 2005 (rtf) NAS AGM & public lecture by Steve Parry ("Landscapes of Uncertainty. New Questions Conceerning Ancient Settlements in the East Midlands; the View from Raunds") - "The Archaeology of Northamptonshire" book selling well - Northamptonshire Archaeology Vol. 31 in preparation - 30th Anniversary Photographic Competition closing date - Portable Antiquities Scheme newsletter no. 3 available and launch of children's website - 23rd Brixworth lecture ("Music to Adorn the Liturgy of the Anglo-Saxon church") - appeal to save fingerposts and milestones - interactive environmental mapping website - subscription reminder.
February 2005 (rtf) NAS AGM report - appeal to support local museums - new book "The Archaeology of Northamptonshire" - 30th Anniversary Photographic Competition deadline extended - Northamptonshire Archaeology Vol. 31 now out - Portable Antiquities Scheme newsletter no. 2 out and their Annual Report 2003-4 - free English Heritage leaflets. 
October 2004 (rtf) NAS AGM & 30th Anniversary Lecture by Francis Pryor "Life in Prehistoric Flag Fen: 30 Years of Research in a Nutshell" - upcoming book "The Archaeology of Northamptonshire" - 30th Anniversary Photographic Competition - Time Team dig near Grafton Regis (technically in Bucks)  - Portable Antiquities Scheme surgeries - subscription reminder.
April 2004 (rtf) Daventry Museum closure - Northampton Archaeology Vol. 31 under preparation - Hunsbury Hillfort grant - Irchester, Chester Farm & Roman Town - Portable Antiquities Scheme Surgeries - subscription reminder -
November 2003 (rtf) NAS AGM and public lecture by Stephen Young entitled "The Whitehall Villa and its Landscape" and copies of "The Archaeology of Northamptonshire" available - subscription reminder - "Historic Environment Records: Benchmarks for Good Practice" consultation - "Northamptonshire Stone": new book by Diana Sutherland - Heritage Link email digest
September 2003 (rtf) Advance notice of AGM - Northampton Archaeology Vol. 30 under preparation - "The Archaeology of Northamptonshire" publishing delayed - "Protecting Our Historic Environment: Making the System Work Better": review consultation launched in July by the Department of Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) - CBA South Midlands AGM and talk  by Steve Lawrence  "Higham Ferrers" - County Council Historic Environment Services Update - appeal for information on Marked Window Leads - New Northamptonshire Finds Liaison Officer -
January 2003 (rtf) County Council plans savage cuts to Historic Environment Team - State of the Historic Environment Report 2002 (SHER) - South Midlands & Milton Keynes Study - 2002 AGM and talk by Dr Chris Burgess "The Lock Doon Scandal" - NAS excavation backfilling at Stowe Nine Churches.

Volume 35
Northamptonshire Archaeology Journal Vol. 35

Northamptonshire Archaeology
Every member of the NAS with a current subscription receives a free copy of the annual journal. The Journal includes reports of fieldwork, excavations and other discoveries in the County, with financial support from commercial archaeology. Contributions are welcome from anyone with an interest in Northamptonshire's past. It is distributed nationally and internationally.

From Volume 35, 2008, the society journal is moving to A4 format and digital printing, making possible the direct insertion of colour photographs and colour plans. If you are planning to contribute to the next volume please read "Notes For Contributors" (pdf, 21Kb).

Tables of Contents, with abstracts, are available for the following volumes:

Volume 26 (1995)
Volume 27 (1996-97)
Volume 28 (1998-9)
Volume 29 (2000-01)
Volume 30 (2002)
Volume 31 (2003)
Volume 32 (2004)
Volume 33 (2005)
Volume 34 (2006)
Volume 35 (2008)

Contents & Place-name Index (pdf, 1.93Mb)
Northamptonshire Archaeology Volume 1, 1966 - Volume 34, 2006

The Society has spare back-copies of journals which we would like to give away free to existing members. The copies available are Volumes 9, 26, 27, 29, and 30. If you would like any or all of these, they can be collected from Andy Chapman. Contact him at Northamptonshire Archaeology, 2, Bolton House, Wootton Hall Park, Northampton NN4 9BE Tel. 01604 825845. We can also send out copies in the post but we will have to charge you for postage.

The Archaeology of Northamptonshire
1974 was marked by two important events for the archaeology of Northamptonshire. One was the formation of the Northamptonshire Archaeological Society and the other, the publication of The Northamptonshire Landscape by John Steane as part of the series of works edited by W.G. Hoskins entitled The Making of the English Landscape. Thirty years later the NAS is still going strong and it has decided that a new account of the county's archaeological record should be published.

The new book, "The Archaeology of Northamptonshire" will be available from November 30th 2004. It has 200 pages with 125 illustrations (B&W and colour). The book has been edited by Martin Tingle and contains chapters written by a variety of authors.These include; Sandy Kidd & Greg Phillips (Paleaolithic and Mesolithic), Andy Chapman (Neolithic and Bronze Age), Sandy Kidd (The First Millenium BC), Myk Flitcroft & Jeremy Taylor (The Romans) Tony Brown & Glenn Foard (The Anglo-Saxons), Glenn Foard (Medieval) David Hall (The Post Medieval), Jenny Ballinger (Industrial Archaeology), and Martin Tingle (The history of Northamptonshire's archaeology and its future).

The book is intended to be accessible to a wide readership but is referenced and includes a full bibliography so that it can be used for academic work.

THE AUTHORS

Jenny Ballinger
Jenny has worked for the curatorial arm of Northamptonshire's Heritage / Historic Environment Team since graduating in 1993. She has worked in a number of positions including Technical Assistant, Sites and Monuments Record Assistant, Project Officer and Senior Conservation Officer. Jenny's background is in Landscape Archaeology and Architectural History. She developed an interest in the industrial period during her work on the English Heritage funded Extensive Urban Survey, when she undertook a survey of 16 industrialised settlements in Northamptonshire. I have since taken the lead role in the County in promoting the conservation management and understanding of the historic environment of the industrial period. Her current role involves promoting and monitoring the recording of historic buildings of all types and periods, including the industrial period.

Tony Brown
Tony Brown was for some years the Staff Tutor in Archaeology in the Department of Adult Education of the University of Leicester, and before that the Organising Tutor for Northamptonshire. Retiring in 2001, he is now a University Fellow. His teaching interests have been in field survey and landscape studies, with particular reference to the English Midlands, with the recent addition of an interest in the archaeology of warfare.

Andy Chapman
Andy Chapman has spent most of the past 30 years and is currently a Senior Archaeologist at the County Unit. Beginning as site supervisor for the Northampton Development Corporation at the Briar Hill causewayed enclosure in the 1970s, he has subsequently worked for, the County Council archaeology unit. He has directed numerous excavations , including a long-running involvement with the work of the Raunds Area Project, particularly at the major prehistoric monument complex which underlay the deserted medieval hamlet of West Cotton. His more recent work includes excavations in Northampton of the medieval town defences, at Green Street, and of the cemetery of St James's Abbey, at the old Express Lifts site.

Glenn Foard
Glenn is currently a Project Officer working for the Battlefields Trust. Previously he was County Archaeologist for Northamptonshire. He is a specialist in landscape archaeology with particular experience in aerial archaeology and field survey, documentary research and the application of information technology to the mapping and interpretation of the historic environment and has written extensively on the English Civil War

Myk Flitcroft
Myk's introduction to Roman archaeology began as a volunteer on excavations at the Lunt Roman Fort near Coventry and later worked in Northamptonshire on the Raunds Area Project. He then spent 10 years , working as a field archaeologist in Hertfordshire, London & Norfolk before becoming a curatorial archaeologist in Coventry & for English Heritage. He returned to Northamptonshire in 1999 to work as the county council's planning archaeologist and he now leads the team responsible for the management and protection of the county's archaeology and historic environment.

David Hall
David is an Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter University although he has worked for many years on the English Heritage Fenland Project and has conducted numerous landscape surveys within Northamptonshire. He has published extensively on medieval settlement and their open fields and is also currently the Editor of Northamptonshire Past and Present, the annual journal of the Northamptonshire Record Society.

Sandy Kidd
Sandy started his archaeological career in 1985 as an excavator on a Bristol City Museum job creation scheme. After taking an MA in Archaeology at Nottingham University he returned to the Bristol area working on several excavations and the Avon County SMR. In 1991 Sandy was appointed to the post of planning archaeologist at the Northamptonshire Archaeology Unit taking on the challenge of implementing the newly issued planning guidance for archaeology at time when both archaeologists and developers were still coming to terms with the system. During this time Sandy was involved in initiating and monitoring numerous archaeological projects, many with an emphasis on his main interest of later prehistory. After eight years in Northamptonshire Sandy hopped south across the county boundary to become County Archaeologist for Buckinghamshire, taking on responsibility for rebuilding a service decimated by cuts. He is now engaged in a wide range of projects in strategic planning, historic landscape characterisation and public archaeology as well as taking a leading role in the national Association of Local Government Archaeologists.

Greg Phillips
After graduating from Nottingham and a further year and a half digging, Greg worked for Northamptonshire County Council in the curatorial archaeology team (Northamptonshire Heritage), carrying out various roles within the SMR and in Development Control from 1993 until 2001. He is now self employed as a GIS and Cartography Consultant.

Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy is a Lecturer in Landscape Archaeology at Leicester University. His research interests centre on rural settlement and social change in Iron Age Britain and the Roman provinces, and on survey-based archaeological technique. He has conducted fieldwork in Spain, Portugal, France and Italy as well as in Britain.

Martin Tingle
Martin is a Honorary Research Fellow at The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at Birmingham University as well as being the former Chair and Editor of the N.A.S. Prior to this he has worked on the landscape archaeology of Wessex, Devon and Brittany. He is currently working on archaeological projects in Northamptonshire, Devon and Croatia with a specialist interest in prehistoric lithics.

The Archaeology of Northamptonshire is currently on sale in bookshops with a recommended retail price of £21.00 (local discounts may apply). It is available by post from the NAS at £14.50 plus £2.50 postage for non-members and to NAS members at £12.99 plus £2.50 postage.

Please make cheques made payable to: N.A.S and send them to:
Andy Chapman, Northamptonshire Archaeology, 2, Bolton House, Wootton Hall Park, Northampton NN4 9BE Tel. 01604 825845.