Many thanks for your continued interest in the River Raiders project focussing on the Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods in the Brecks, which is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and is being delivered by the Breckland Society as part of the wider Brecks Fen Edge and Rivers landscape partnership scheme. This page presents a list of links to various online resources designed to support a training session about the many and varied sources of archaeological and historical information which can be accessed online and used to inform research projects. A recording of the training session which goes with these links can be viewed on the project YouTube channel.
Archaeological Sites and Historic Buildings
- Norfolk Heritage Explorer: http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/
- Suffolk Heritage Explorer: https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/
- Heritage Gateway: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/
- National Heritage List for England: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/
Archaeological Artefacts
- Portable Antiquities Scheme: https://finds.org.uk/
- British Museum Collection: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection
- Norfolk Museums Collections: http://norfolkmuseumscollections.org/
- Colchester and Ipswich Museums Collections: https://cimuseums.org.uk/collections/
Online Journals and Monographs
- Norfolk Archaeology: https://doi.org/10.5284/1078322
- Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute for Archaeology and History: https://www.suffolkinstitute.org.uk/publications
- East Anglian Archaeology Monographs: http://eaareports.org.uk/
- Medieval Archaeology (1–50): https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/med_arch/volumes.cfm
Aerial Photographs and Old Maps
- Britain from Above: https://britainfromabove.org.uk/
- National Library of Scotland: https://maps.nls.uk/
- Old Maps: https://www.old-maps.co.uk/
- The Genealogist (Tithe Maps): https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/
- Norfolk Historic Map Explorer: http://www.historic-maps.norfolk.gov.uk/mapexplorer/
- Google Earth Pro: http://www.google.co.uk/earth/versions/
- Lidar (Environment Agency): https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?Mode=survey
- Lidar (Brecks): http://www.breakingnewground.org.uk/our-projects/a-future-for-all/revealing-the-landscape-lidar/
Historical Documents
- Norfolk Record Office: https://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk/
- Suffolk Archives: https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/
- The National Archives: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
- British Library (Manuscripts): https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/
- Parker Library, Corpus Christi College: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/
- Cambridge Digital Library: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
- The Morgan Library and Museum: https://www.themorgan.org/collection/Life-and-Miracles-of-St-Edmund
- Lydgate’s Life of Edmund: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_2278
- Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People): http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_C_II
- Beowulf: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Vitellius_A_XV and/or http://ebeowulf.uky.edu/ebeo4.0/start.html
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- Parker Chronicle (A-text): https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/wp146tq7625
- Abingdon Chronicle I (B-text): http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_A_VI
- Abingdon Chronicle II (C-text): http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_B_I
- Worcester Chronicle (D-text): http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Tiberius_B_IV
- Peterborough (or Laud) Chronicle (E-text): https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/6272311c-058d-417a-8e21-05e463b4f1f9/
- Bilingual Canterbury Epitome (F-text): https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Domitian_A_VIII
- Domesday Book: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/
Scanned Books and Theses
- The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/
- Google Books: https://books.google.co.uk/
- Academia: https://www.academia.edu/
- Victoria County History: https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history/county-histories-progress
- British Library (Theses): https://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do