Rescue Archaeology in Hampshire - Reports 1973-1976

Before 'Archaeology in Hampshire' was published, from 1977 by Hampshire County Council and then, from 2004 by Hampshire Field Club, an earlier publication brought together reports on 'Rescue Archaeology in Hampshire'. The series was created as a more suitable outlet for the many rescue reports which may have otherwise inundated the annual field club journal. The journal was published for four years from 1973-1976 and contains within it some of the only reports for many important Hampshire sites, such as the only official publications of work at the significant Mesolithic site of Broom Hill, Braishfield. Within the long-forgotten series are also papers by several big names; Barry Cunnliffe, Richard Bradley, Roger Jacobi and David Johnston. The series is also a unique document of pre-PPG16 rescue archaeology and the great efforts of so many archaeologists to record the county's rich archaeology before its destruction.

Fig. 1 Rescue Archaeology in Hampshire issues 1 – 3

Currently, only the first three publications of Rescue Archaeology in Hampshire have been uploaded with the final publication in the process of being borrowed and scanned. All copies are downloadable as a .pdf and have been fully OCR'ed and are totally searchable. They come from the collection of Emmanuel La O Kirchner who scanned and processed them. If readers know of other elusive and un-digitised Hampshire archaeological publications please get in touch with Emmanuel via manni.kirchner.03@gmail.com.

RAiH Report 1973

RAiH Report 1974

RAiH Report 1975

Fig. 2 Editorial in the first publication of Rescue Archaeology in Hampshire written by joint editors Elizabeth Lewis and Mike Hughes.