Research Reports
Find research reports on specific buildings or sites, our large-area aerial survey mapping programme, and commissioned research.
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Kitchener’s Camps at Seaford: The Aerial Survey of a First World War Landscape
Two First World War army camps at Seaford, East Sussex, were identified on 1940s and 1950s aerial photographs during the South Downs National Mapping...
Report Number: 27/2011Research Report -
Lodge Hill Battery, Cooling, Medway, Kent: An investigation of the first world war anti-aircraft battery
The First World War batteries on Lodge Hill (1442424) and Beacon Hill (1474255) were the first permanent anti-aircraft gun sites in Britain. In January...
Report Number: 55/2010Research Report -
First World War Wireless Stations in England
First World War Wireless Stations have been little studied from an archaeological or historical perspective and most research had been technological in...
Report Number: 116/2015Research Report -
East Coast War Channels in the First and Second World Wars
The East Coast War Channels are the carefully defined routes that were swept of mines between the Thames and the border with Scotland in both the First...
Report Number: 103/2014Research Report -
First World War National Factories: An Archaeological, Architectural and Historical review
The First World War National Factories were under the direct control of the Ministry of Munitions producing vital war material, everything from wooden...
Report Number: 76/2015Research Report -
First World War Fieldworks in England
This thematic study on First World War fieldworks in England has been prepared by Martin Brown, Principal Archaeologist, WYG, on behalf of the Historic...
Report Number: 61/2017Research Report -
The Home Front (1914-1918) and its Legacies: a pilot study for a national public archaeology recording project of First World War legacies in Britain: 2014-2018
This report covers the results of a pilot project into the methodology of recording the legacies of first World War sites by researchers, especially volunteers,...
Report Number: 102/2014Research Report -
BULL SAND FORT Easington East Riding of Yorkshire
Bull Sand Fort is the larger of two island forts built between 1915 and 1919 to defend the mouth of the Humber during the First World War. The fort was...
Report Number: 120/1998Research Report -
BULL SAND FORT Easington East Riding of Yorkshire
Bull Sand Fort is the larger of two island forts built between 1915 and 1919 to defend the mouth of the Humber during the First World War. The fort was...
Report Number: 124/1998Research Report -
UB-78 off Folkestone Kent: Archaeological Report
This report covers archaeological investigation of First World War German submarine, UB-78, which was lost off Folkestone in April 1918. English Heritage...
Report Number: 125/2015Research Report -
South Downs Beachy Head to the River Ouse: Aerial Investigation and Mapping Report
This report describes highlights from a survey of archaeological features seen on aerial photographs. The project area included the coast from Peacehaven...
Report Number: 22/2013Research Report -
Browndown Ranges (north), Gosport, Hampshire
As part of the Gosport Heritage Action Zone Historic England’s Archaeological Investigation Team undertook a detailed study of Browndown Ranges (north)....
Report Number: 49/2023Research Report -
UB-41 and UB-75, off Robin Hood's Bay: Marine Geophysical Survey Report
This report covers geophysical surveys and associated archaeological assessments of the wreck sites reported as those of UB-41 (UKHO No. 62887) and the...
Report Number: 112/2014Research Report -
UB-109 off Folkestone Kent: Archaeological Report
This report covers a condition survey of the wreck of UB-109, a First World War German type UB III submarine. It was lost off Folkestone late in the war...
Report Number: 123/2015Research Report -
UB-12 off Ramsgate: Marine Geophysical Survey and Archaeological Report
This report covers a geophysical survey carried out at a location off Ramsgate thought to be the potential point of loss of First World War German Submarine...
Report Number: 98/2016Research Report -
Gosport Heritage Action Zone (HAZ): An Assessment of Aerial Photographs and Lidar
The town of Gosport owes its origins and development to its association with the Royal Navy and the Naval dockyards at neighbouring Portsmouth established...
Report Number: 244/2020Research Report -
Curtis’s and Harvey Ltd Explosives Factory, Cliffe and Cliffe Woods, Medway: Archaeological Survey and Analysis of the Factory Remains.
Between November 2010 and January 2011 English Heritage undertook detailed archaeological survey and analysis of a former chemical explosives factory...
Report Number: 11/2011Research Report -
Dover Sector 1914-18 and 1939-45
This project provides a ‘landscape’ approach to understanding the marine area of the Dover Sector in the First and Second World War. The Dover Sector...
Report Number: 48/2021Research Report -
U-8 Off South Varne Buoy, English Channel: Undesignated Site Assessment
This report covers the investigation of a wreck, which fitted the position in the English Channel, where a First World War German Submarine U-8 was lost....
Report Number: 97/2016Research Report -
A National Planning Overview for 19th Century Forts and Associated Fortifications
The fortifications of the 19th and early 20th centuries are some of our coast’s most distinctive monuments. Architecturally and topographically, they...
Report Number: 87/2018Research Report
