Sender: |
|
X-To: |
|
Date: |
Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:50:58 +0100 |
Reply-To: |
|
Message-ID: |
|
Subject: |
|
From: |
|
Content-Transfer-Encoding: |
8bit |
In-Reply-To: |
|
Content-Type: |
text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed |
MIME-Version: |
1.0 |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Hi,
Historically in England Oxford and Cambridge Universities are collegiate
entities based in the city centre, so they aren't ‘campuses’ and the
archaeology is mixed in amongst the urban fabric. This means that the
archaeology of the university isn't a discrete entity and that
university related material is found on a wide range of sites.
There has been some work done in Oxford, where published this is mostly
in the local county journal Oxoniensia, http://oxoniensia.org/
There is also an article in Post-Medieval Archaeology 2003 ‘The
excavation and analysis of an 18th-century deposit of anatomical remains
and chemical apparatus from the rear of the first Ashmolean Museum (now
The Museum of the History of Science), Broad Street, Oxford’
It is also worth looking at the relevant sections of the Oxford
Archaeological Plan
http://www.oxford.gov.uk/PageRender/decP/OxfordArchaeologicalPlan.htm
There has been a fair amount of work in Cambridge since the advent of
developer-funded archaeology, but I am not aware of much that has
actually been published to do with the 17th-18th century University. One
thing is ‘Investigating the site of Newton’s laboratory in Trinity
College, Cambridge’ in the South African Journal of Science 101.
I am currently conducting some research on university related material
culture in Cambridge, so if you had a more specific query I might be
able to help more.
Some websites it might be worth running queries for British archaeology
are:
http://www.biab.ac.uk/
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/greylit/
Craig Cessford
> Hey Histarchers,
>
> I'm trying to find any information or sources about archaeological
> investigations of historic university/college campuses in the US and
> the
> UK-specially with a focus on the 17th and 18th cen. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Dessa Lightfoot
|
|
|