Restored Web Archives Field Surveys & Social History  ·  1999–2006

  • 1999-2006 Thetford Forest Archaeology

    Amateur field survey of an East Anglian pine forest. Special reference to late prehistoric lithics; includes surveys of a Roman site and a 12th-century medieval site. Landscape archaeology spanning Norfolk and Suffolk. Modernised in HTML5.

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  • 2004-2007 Portuguese Thetford — Trabalhar

    Thousands of migrant workers from Portugal and Eastern Europe arrived in rural Eastern England in the early 2000s. This contemporary website examined the economic patterns and social issues of that immigration wave, as they were happening, with a focus on Thetford and industrial contract labour.

  • 1999-2002 Wesley's Metal Detector Finds

    My late father's metal detecting records from Norfolk: Medieval, Saxon, and Roman finds set within local landscape history. Kept intact as an unaltered 1999-style relic and a digital testament to his searches.

Deep Time & Ancestry Writing Live Research Blog

These series are published live on Journals of a Time Traveller.

  • Idyllea: Where the Wildwood Fades (Master Index)

    Serialised prehistoric fiction set in Britain c. 4100 BCE, reconstructing the ancient landscape as the terminal wildwood yields to the earliest Neolithic transformations.

  • Time Travel and Haplogroup Ancestry (The Index)

    Master tracking hub for both deep genetic lineages. Features The Odyssey of Y, mapping the ultra-rare branch path L-M20 › M22 › M317 › SK1412 › SK1414 › FGC51041 › FGC51088 › FGC51036; and The Ovum Series, tracing maternal H6a1a8 back to Helena and down to 20th-century Norfolk.

  • The Iceni: Their Land, Their People

    An investigation into Iron Age Britain — the tribal territory, material culture, and landscape of the Iceni in what would become East Anglia.

  • Notes on Medieval Flegg and Broadland in Norfolk

    Social history and landscape studies examining the medieval development of the Flegg hundreds and the changing Broadland environmental systems of East Anglia.

  • Excavation and Recording at Sedgeford, Norfolk

    Fieldwork review of the SHARP BERT programme. Documents practice in Harris matrix stratigraphy, dumpy level surveying, flotation sampling, and fluxgate magnetometer operation at a high-status Middle Anglo-Saxon trench.

  • Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Archive

    Curated articles on the first anatomically modern human material cultures in Europe and Britain: lithic technology, cave art, and palaeogenomic data tracking the deep ancestry of Ice Age and Early Holocene hunter-gatherers.

  • Southwest Asian Neolithic PPNA Archive

    Archaeological evidence from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A horizon (c. 10,000–8,800 BCE): material culture, environmental contexts, and the structural transition from nomadic hunting to complex sedentary food-producing societies in the Levant and Anatolia.

  • East Anglian Ancestry for Far-Away Genealogists

    A research guide helping international family historians navigate records, landscape evolution, and distinct regional lineages native to Norfolk and Suffolk.