A statue of Licoricia has been unveiled in Winchester. This is the culmination of work which has built on evidence discovered by Derek Keene and colleagues during the course of their research for Winchester Studies 2, Survey of Medieval Winchester, in which brief details appear.
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The first of our Winchester Studies volumes to be digitised is now available with Oxford based publishers, Archaeopress. You can read WS 3.ii The Roman Cemetery at Lankhills online (free of charge), or purchase a print on demand copy. Both options can be accessed via Archaeopress’ website. The full backlist of Winchester Studies volumes will be available in this way shortly, subject to funding being secured.
This marks a milestone in our long-time goal to digitise our published volumes, and enable the results of our excavations to be more widely accessible. We have been exploring options for digitisation since the early stages of technology development, but the large scale and complex nature of our results, especially of our illustrations (many of which run across long fold-out sheets) were not immediately amenable to digital reproduction.
Our collaboration with Archaeopress has overcome these obstacles, as they have handled all complexities innovatively and with care, ensuring important facets like scale and pagination are maintained throughout.
To find out more about WS 3.ii The Roman Cemetery at Lankhills see our publications page here.
On the 1979 edition of WS 3.ii The Roman Cemetery at Lankhills:
The excavation and report on the Lankhills cemetery is something of a landmark. It is a lesson to Roman archaeologists about what they have been missing through neglect of their cemetery sites, and also a lesson to every-one engaged in cemetery site studies, whatever their period, in how to analyse and present their evidence to maximum advantage. This model publication will be an indispensable work of reference for many years to come. – Dr Sonia Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement (1980)
We are very pleased that Hampshire County Council has awarded a substantial grant of up to £200,000 to go towards the completion of our publications on the city of Winchester.
This grant will support our team to finish writing up and preparing the results of our decade-long programme of archaeological excavation in Winchester, for publication in the acclaimed Winchester Studies volumes.
So far, we have nine published volumes, with eight to go (two currently with our publishers). These volumes document the development of the city of Winchester from Roman times through to post-medieval, drawing on archaeological, historical, literary, architectural, and artistic evidence. More information on our volumes can be found here.
Courtesy of the Hampshire Chronicle
Winchester City Council will be hosting an Archaeology Day on the Central Winchester Regeneration (CWR) site, on Wednesday 6 October. This is a great opportunity to join in on a site visit led by Keith Wilkinson and ask questions of the panel of experts gathered to discuss the archaeology report and recommendations produced by CWR. The panel will be chaired by our director, Martin.
10am–Midday: join in on this informal drop in session on site with Keith Wilkinson for your chance to hear about some of the work that’s been undertaken so far. Location: Winchester Bus Station, behind the site of the old Friarsgate Medical Centre.
2–4pm: join in online (via MS Teams) for a presentation highlighting some of the findings so far and a Q&A session with the CWR Archaeology Advisory Panel. If you would like to join the session, please email CWRegen@winchester.gov.uk who will send you the link and instructions on how to join the meeting. If you have a question you would like to ask, please include this in your email.
