Online E-Journals, Downloads & Research tools

 

The following references are generally links to commercial on-line storage and retrieval systems for academic e-Journals that arrange downloads of individual articles in a range of castle-related Journals, following credit card payment. Examples are JSTOR (not for profit), WS Maney with Ingenta Connect, Science Direct, Blackwell-Synergy (now Wiley Interscience), High Beam, High Wire etc.

 

e-Journals:

 

Cambridge Journals online (The Antiquaries Journal): journals.cambridge.org

Maney / Ingenta (Journal of the British Archaeological Ass): www.ingentaconnect.com

Maney / Ingenta (Journal of the Society for Medieval Archaeology): www.ingentaconnect.com

Society of Medieval Archaeology Journal Archive (1-50): Archsearch Libary

[A list of articles that relate to castle studies in the SMA Journals is available here]

British History Online : www.british-history.ac.uk

Cambrian Archaeological Society Journal - Content of recent editions: www.cambrians.org.uk

Archaeological Data Services - ARCHway Journal Locator: //ads.ahds.ac.uk

 

Specific Articles:

 

Charles Coulson: Cultural Realities and Reappraisals in castle study - 1996: Journal of Medieval History Vol 22 Issue 2, 1996: ScienceDirect.com   

Sarah Speight: British castle studies in the late 20th and 21st centuries: www.blackwell-compass.com

Creighton & Higham: Castle studies and the ‘Landscape’ Agenda - 2004: www.exeter.ac.uk

Philip Davis’s Gatehouse: papers/lists/maps/essays, on licences to crenellate & statistical analysis, defining the castle, minor castles, earth mounds, Northumberland, etc http://homepage.mac.com/philipdavis/other.html

 

Monuments Databases - England & Wales:

 

Archaeology Data Service - ArchSearch: //ads.ahds.ac.uk/index.html

 

Archaeology Data Service has the databases of:

Conwy Sites and Monuments Record

Denbighshire Sites and Monuments Record

Flintshire Sites and Monuments Record

Powys / Brecon Beacons National Park Sites and Monuments Record

Powys Sites and Monuments Record

Wrexham Sites and Monuments Record

Durham SMR

Greater London Sites and Monuments Record (of very limited use)

Lake District National Park HER

National Trust SMR

Northumberland Sites and Monuments Record

Shropshire Sites and Monuments Record

Somerset Historic Environment Record

South Gloucestershire SMR

Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record

Yorkshire Dales National Park Historic Environment Record

English Heritage NMR Excavation Index for England

English Heritage National Inventory (NMR)

 

Wales:

Coflein (Royal Commission on Ancient & Historical Mo. in Wales): www.coflein.gov.uk/

CARN: (Royal Commission - Wales): www.rcahmw.gov.uk/HI/ENG/Home/

Archwilio: www.archwilio.org.uk

 

Heritage Gateway: www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/

 

The Heritage Gateway is a facility sponsored by English Heritage,  working in collaboration with ALGAO and IHBC in a five year project to build a Heritage Gateway to England's local and national Historic Environment Records. A key objective is to develop the flexibility to provide integrated access to local and national heritage information resources as part of the programme of reforms proposed by Government 'Heritage Protection for the 21st century.  Planned to be the ultimate database for archaeology in England. Has the National databases; the listed building index, PastScape and the NMR excavation index and a several county HER's available (Bedfordshire HER; Cambridgeshire HER; Canterbury UAD; Cheshire HER; City of York HER; Colchester UAD; Cornwall & Scilly HER; Devon & Dartmoor HER; Dorset HER; Essex HER; Exmoor National Park HER; Herefordshire SMR; Hertfordshire HER & St Albans UAD; Lake District National Park HER; Leicestershire and Rutland HER; Lincolnshire HER; Milton Keynes HER; Norfolk HER; North Yorkshire HER; Shropshire HER; Somerset HER; Southampton HER; South Gloucestershire HER; Staffordshire HER; Suffolk HER; Tyne and Wear HER (Sitelines); Warwickshire HER; Winchester HER & Winchester UAD).

 

Historical Environment Record holders that have developed their own sites are as follows:

Unlocking Buckinghamshire's Past - The Sites and Monuments Record for Buckinghamshire.

Revealing Cheshire's Past - The Sites and Monuments record for the county of Cheshire.

Discover Cumbia - The Cumbria HER.

Keys to the Past - The online SMR for County Durham and Northumberland.

SEAX Archaeology - Unlocking Essex's Past - The online SMR for Essex.

Hampshire Treasures Online - The online Hampshire Treasures record. (Those natural or man made features of the county which are of public interest by reason of their aesthetic, archaeological, historic, scenic, scientific, sociological or traditional interest, and whose deterioration or destruction would represent a serious loss to our heritage.)

Hampshire AHBR - The online Archaeological and Historic Building Record.

Historic Herefordshire On-Line - The online SMR database for Herefordshire.

Exploring Kents Past - the online version of the Kent Historic Environment Record.

Milton Keynes intelligence Observatory -  A mapping site that has some details of the HER

Norfolk Heritage Explorer - The online version of the Norfolk Historic Environment Record (NHER) – a database of archaeological sites, finds and buildings in Norfolk.

Oxfordshire Heritage Search - a moderate search engine that make identifying sites hit and miss and provides only basic information, not including bibliographical references.

Somerset Historic Environment Record - The online SMR database for the modern authority of Somerset (which excludes the north of historic Somerset). A good, solid, searchable database although long scrolling monument type menus are irksome.

Discovering Shropshire's History - The Shropshire HER. Good search engine, and detailed results with good, full, description, including bibliography. Nice link to Microsoft's Virtual Earth air photo showing nearby HER entries, which can be useful in reconstructing the medieval landscape.

Exploring Surrey's Past - The Surrey HER provides only basic information, not including bibliographical references.

SiteLines - The online HER for Tyne and Wear. Searchable but gives basic site information only.

Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record - The online SMR for Warwickshire. Good, solid searchable database.

Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record - No gloss, reasonable search engine, good detail (including the underlying geology of sites!) and ok bibliography (date of publication often not given).

Out of Oblivion: A landscape through time - Is the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority Archaeological services website. This does have pages with details of many of the archaeological sites but the full HER is also available online through the Archaeological Data Service

 

Scotland

RCAHMS - Canmore: www.canmore.rcahms.gov.uk

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/ARCHway/volumeSelector.cfm?rcn=1340  

Dumfries & Galloway Natural History & Antiquarian Soc: http://users.quista.net/dgnhas/

Glasgow Archaeological Society: http://www.glasarchsoc.org.uk/page.php?1

Glasgow Archaeological Society Proceedings: www.archive.org

Scottish Castles Association: www.scottishcastlesassociation.com

 

Primary Sources:

Calendar of Charter Rolls: www.archive.org/details/calendarcharter00stamgoog

Calendar of Patent Rolls: www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/patentrolls

Rotuli Litterarum Patentium in Turri Londinensi Asservati (1201-16):            http://neolography.com/timelines/JohnItinerary.html

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle: //omacl.org/Anglo/

The Domesday Book: www.domesdaybook.co.uk/