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Mike Allen

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Journal Articles

  • Allen, M.J. and Lievers, M., 2008. Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures and Later Prehistoric Farming; Duality, Imposition and Predecessors at Kingsborough, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 74.
  • Allen, M.J., 2007. Prehistoric and Medieval Environment of Old Town, Eastbourne: Studies of Hillwash in the Bourne Valley, Star Brewery Site. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 145, 33-36.
  • Gardiner, J., Allen, M.J., Powell, A.B., Harding, P., Lawson, A.J., Loader, E., McKinley, J.I., Sheridan, A. and Stevens, C.J., 2007. A Matter of Life and Death: Late Neolithic, Beaker and Early Bronze Age Settlement and Cemeteries at Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester. Proceedings of Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 128, 17-52.
  • Lovell, J., Wakeham, G., Timby, J. and Allen, M.J., 2007. Iron Age to Saxon Farming Settlement at Bishop’s Cleeve, Gloucestershire: Excavations South of Church Road, 1988 and 2004. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 125, 95-129.
  • Birbeck, V. and Allen, M.J., 2006. [Discussion] Middle-Late Bronze Age Linear Earthwork. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 99, 98-101.
  • Macphail, R.I., Cruise, G.M., Allen, M.J. and Linderholm, J., 2006. A Rebuttal of the Views Expressed in “Problems of Unscientific Method and Approach in Archaeological Soil and Pollen Analysis of Experimental Floor Deposits; with Special Reference to Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire, UK by R.I. Macphail, G.M. Cruise, M. Allen, J. Linderholm and P. Reynolds” by Matthew Canti, Stephen Carter, Donald Davidson and Susan Limbrey. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33, 299-305.
  • Allen, M.J., 2006. The land snail evidence, in Andrews, P., A Middle to Late Bronze Age settlement at Dunch Hill, Tidworth. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 99, 64-66.
  • Allen, M.J., 2006. Land snails, in Birbeck, V., Excavations on the old ditch linear earthwork, Breach Hill, Tilshead. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 99, 91-95.
  • Allen, M.J. and Chadwick, A.M., 2006. "Charred Apples": In Bronze Age Burials and Settlement and an Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Claypit Lane, Westhampnett, West Sussex by A.M. Chadwick. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 144, 39.
  • Allen, M.J. and Chadwick, A.M., 2006. "Radiocarbon Dating Programme": In Bronze Age Burials and Settlement and an Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Claypit Lane, Westhampnett, West Sussex by Adrian M.Chadwick. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 144, 41-42.
  • French, C., Lewis, H., Scaife, R.G. and Allen, M.J., 2005. New Perspectives on Holocene Landscape Development in the Southern English Chalklands: The Upper Allen Valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset. Geoarchaeology, 20, 109-134.
  • Allen, M.J., 2005. Beaker Settlement and Environment on the Chalk Downs of Southern England. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 71, 219-245.
  • Allen, M.J., 2005. Beaker Occupation and Development of the Downland Landscape at Ashcombe Bottom, nr Lewes, East Sussex. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 143, 7-33.
  • Allen, M.J., 2005. Beaker and Early Bronze Age Activity, and a Possible Beaker Valley Entrenchment, in Cuckoo Bottom, near Lewes, East Sussex. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 143, 35-45.
  • Powell, A.B., Allen, M.J., Chapman, J., Every, R., Gale, R., Harding, P., Knight, S., McKinley, J.I. and Stevens, C.J., 2005. Excavations Along The Old Sarum Water Pipeline, North of Salisbury. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 98, 250-280.
  • Allen, M.J., Scaife, R.G., Cameron, N. and Stevens, C.J., 2005. Excavations at 211 Long Lane, Southwark Part II: Prehistoric Neckinger-Side Environment in Southwark and its Implication for Prehistoric Communities. London Archaeologist, 11, 73-81.
  • Allen, M.J., 2005. Molluscan remains, in Lovell, J., Excavatons of a Romano-British farmstead at RNAS Yeovilton. Somerset Archaeology and Natural History, 148, 59-60.
  • Allen, M.J., 2005. "The Late Bronze Age Wealden Landscape": In Excavation of a Late Bronze Age Enclosure Site at Gatwick Airport 2001. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 143, 66-68.
  • Parker-Pearson, M., Richards, C., Allen, M.J., Payne, A. and Welham, K., 2004. The Stonehenge Riverside Project. Research Design and Initial Results. Journal of Nordic Archaeological Science, 14, 45-60.
  • Macphail, R.I., Cruise, G.M., Allen, M.J., Linderholm, J. and Reynolds, P., 2004. Archaeological Soil and Pollen Analysis of Experimental Floor Deposits; with Special Reference to Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire, UK. Journal of Archaeological Science, 31, 175-191.
  • Allen, M.J. and Gardiner, J., 2004. Neolithic of the Wylye Valley 1: Millennium Re-Investigation of the Corton Long Barrow, ST 9030 4034. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 97, 63-77.
  • Cleal, R.M.J., Allen, M.J., Harding, P. and Newman, C.A., 2004. An Archaeological and Environmental Study of the Neolithic and Later Prehistoric Landscape of the Avon Valley and Durrington Walls Environs. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 97, 218-248.
  • Rawlings, M.N., Allen, M.J., Cleal, R.M.J. and Healy, F., 2004. Investigations of the Whitesheet Down Environs 1989-90: Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure and Iron Age Settlement. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 97, 144-196.
  • Allen, M.J., Moore, C. and Scaife, R.G., 2004. The Geoarchaeology of the Alluvium in the Taw Valley West of Barnstaple. Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society, 62, 41-51.
  • Allen, M.J., Bone, D.A., Matthews, C. and Scaife, R.G., 2004. Tree Trunks, Bronze Age Remains and an Ancient Channel Exposed on the Foreshore at Bognor Regis, West Sussex. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 142, 7-23.
  • McKinley, J.I. and Allen, M.J., 2004. Welcome to Pontibus … Gateway to the West. Surrey Archaeological Collections, 91, 1-69.
  • Ellis, C.J., Allen, M.J., Gardiner, J., Harding, P., Ingrem, C., Powell, A.B. and Scaife, R.G., 2003. An Early Mesolithic Seasonal Hunting Site in the Kennet Valley, Southern England. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 69, 107-136.
  • French, C., Lewis, H., Allen, M.J., Scaife, R.G. and Green, M., 2003. Archaeological and Palaeo-Environmental Investigations of the Upper Allen Valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset (1998-2000): A New Model of Earlier Holocene Landscape Development. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 69, 201-234.
  • Parker-Pearson, M., Richards, C., Allen, M.J., Payne, A. and Welham, K., 2003. The Stonehenge Riverside Project: New Approaches to Durrington Walls. PAST, 45, 6-8.
  • Allen, M.J., 2003. Animal bone, in Harding, P., Ainsworth, S. Butterworth, J. Gater, J and Siraut, M., Archaeological investigations at Templecombe 1995,. Somerset Archaeology and Natural History, 146, 157-158.
  • Gardiner, J., Allen, M.J., Hamilton-Dyer, S., Laidlaw, M. and Scaife, R.G., 2002. Making the Most of It: Late Prehistoric Pastoralism in the Avon Levels, Severn Estuary. Proceedings of Prehistoric Society, 68, 1-40.
  • Crockett, A.D., Allen, M.J. and Scaife, R.G., 2002. A Neolithic Trackway Within Peat Deposits at Silvertown, London. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 68, 185-214.
  • Allen, M.J., 2002. The Chalkland Landscape of Cranborne Chase: A Prehistoric Human Ecology. Landscapes, 3, 54-68.
  • Allen, M.J., 2002. Land mollusc analysis, in Birbeck, V., An Iron Age and Romano-British settlement at Cannards Grave, Shepton Mallet. Somerset Archaeology and Natural History, 144, 92-94.
  • Allen, M.J., Godden, D., Mathews, C. and Powell, A.B., 2002. Mesolithic, Late Bronze Age and Medieval Activity at Katherine Farm, Avonmouth, 1998. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 89-105.
  • Moore, C., Allen, M.J. and Scaife, R.G., 2002. An Archaeological Evaluation at Western Approach Business Park, Severnside, South Gloucestershire. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 159-162.
  • Allen, M.J., 2001. Book Review: Food Forward: “Quest for Food” by Ivan Crowe Tempus. 0-7524-1462-3. British Archaeology, 57, 29-30.
  • Allen, M.J., 2001. Archaeology in a Watery Landscape. Sussex Past, 94, 8-9.
  • Ellis, C.J., Rawlings, M.N. and Allen, M.J., 2001. "Land Snail Evidence for Landscape and Land-Use Change": In Excavations at Balksbury Camp, Andover 1995-97 by C.J.Ellis and M.Rawlings. Hampshire Studies, 56, 54-67.
  • Ellis, C.J., Rawlings, M.N., Allen, M.J. and Bayliss, A., 2001. "Radiocarbon Dating": In Excavations at Balksbury Camp, Andover 1995-97 by C.J. Ellis and M. Rawlings. Hampshire Studies, 56, 39-40.
  • Allen, M.J. and Gardiner, J., 2001. Langstone Harbour. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, 123, 101.
  • Wyles, S., Allen, M.J., Newman, C.A., Morris, E.L. and Bonner, D., 1999. "Land Mollusca": In Iron Age and Romano-British Settlements Along the Bowden Reservoir Pipeline, South East Somerset by Caron Newman, Elaine Morris, David Bonner. Somerset Archaeology and Natural History, 143, 19-23.

Books

  • French, C., Lewis, H., Allen, M.J., Green, M., Scaife, R.G. and Gardiner, J., 2007. Prehistoric Landscape Development and Human Impact in the Upper Allen Valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset, Cambridge. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
  • Stevens, L. and Allen, M.J., 2007. An Interim Account of the Bourne Valley Excavation, Star Brewery Site, Eastbourne. Eastbourne, England: Eastbourne Natural History and Archaeological Society.
  • Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose. Portsmouth, England: Mary Rose Trust Limited.

Chapters

  • Allen, M.J., 2008. Land Snails [Battlesbury]. In: Ellis, C.J. and Powell, A.B., eds. An Iron Age Settlemen: Outside Battlesbury Hillfort, Warminster and Sites Along the Southern Range Road. Salisbury, England: Wessex Archaeology, 119-124.
  • Allen, M.J., 2008. Snails [Boreham Farm Bunglaow (SRR 95)]. In: Ellis, C.J. and Powell, A.B., eds. An Iron Age Settlement: Outside Battlesbury Hillfort, Warminster and Sites along the Southern Range Road. Salisbury, England: Wessex Archaeology, 143-144.
  • Allen, M.J., 2008. Snails [South-East of Battlesbury Wood Excavation (SRR 93)]. In: Ellis, C.J. and Powell, A.B., eds. An Iron Age Settlement: Outside Battlesbury Hillfort, Warminster and Sites Along the Southern Range Road. Salisbury, England: Wessex Archaeology, 146.
  • Allen, M.J., 2008. Snails [Will’s Field Barn (SRR 96)]. In: Ellis, C.J. and Powell, A.B., eds. An Iron Age Settlement: Outside Battlesbury Hillfort, Warminster and Sites Along the Southern Range Road. Salisbury, England: Wessex Archaeology, 161-162.
  • Allen, M.J. and Scaife, R.G., 2007. A New Downland Prehistory: Long-Term Environmental Change on the Southern English Chalklands. In: Fleming, A. and Hingley, R., eds. Prehistoric and Roman Landscapes. Macclesfield, England: Windgather Press, 16-32.
  • Allen, M.J. and Gardiner, J., 2007. The Neolithic of the Present Day Intertidal Zone of Langstone Harbour, Hampshire. In: Sidell, J. and Haughey, F., eds. Neolithic Archaeology in the Intertidal Zone. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 59-70.
  • Gardiner, J. and Allen, M.J., 2006. Peopling the Landscape. In: Cunliffe, B.W., ed. England's landscape : the West. HarperCollins, 35-58.
  • Allen, M.J. and Gardiner, J., 2006. Rhythms of Change: A Region of Contrasts. In: Cunliffe, B.W., ed. England's landscape: the West. London: Harper Collins, 13-34.
  • Allen, M.J., 2005. Considering Prehistoric Environmental Changes on the Marlborough Downs. In: Brown, G., Field, D. and McOmish, D., eds. The Avebury Landscape: Aspects of Field Archaeology of the Marlborough Downs. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 77-86.
  • Allen, M.J., 2005. Part 2: Scientific Studies: Crew, Conditions and Environment. In: Gardiner, J., ed. Before the mast : life and death aboard the Mary Rose. Portsmouth, England: Mary Rose Trust Limited, 501-653.
  • Allen, M.J. and Elkerton, A., 2005. Human Remains: Other Scientific Analyses. In: Gardiner, J., ed. Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose. Portsmouth, England: Mary Rose Trust Limited, 563.
  • Allen, M.J. and Oxley, I., 2005. Acquiring the Data: Introduction to the Palaeo-Environmental and Scientific Analyses. In: Gardiner, J., ed. Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose. Portsmouth, England: Mary Rose Trust Limited, 501-515.
  • Gardiner, J. and Allen, M.J., 2005. Chapter 17: Concluding Comments and Avenues for Future Research. Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose. Portsmouth, England: Mary Rose Trust Limited, 653-658.
  • Allen, M.J. and Gardiner, J., 2002. A Sense of Time – Cultural Markers in the Mesolithic of Southern England. In: Bruno, D. and Wilson, M., eds. Inscribed Landscapes: Marking and Making Place. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 139-153.
  • Allen, M.J., Graham, A.H., Hinton, D.A. and Peacock, D.P.S., 2002. "Snails": In The Excavation of an Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in Quarry Field, South of Compact Farm, Worth Matravers. Purbeck Papers. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 71.
  • Cleal, R.M.J. and Allen, M.J., 2001. Towards a Research Framework for the Avebury Landscape. In: Chadburn, A. and Pomeroy Kellinger, M., eds. Archaeological Research Agenda for the Avebury World Heritage Site. Salisbury, England: Trust for Wessex Archaeology Ltd, 57-62.
  • Allen, M.J., 2001. Resource Assessment: Palaeo-Environmental Evidence. In: Chadburn, A. and Pomeroy Kellinger, M., eds. Archaeological Research Agenda for the Avebury World Heritage Site. Salisbury, England: Trust for Wessex Archaeology Ltd, 34-38.
  • Allen, M.J., 2001. Research Agenda: Palaeo-Environmental Evidence. In: Chadburn, A. and Pomeroy Kellinger, M., eds. Archaeological Research Agenda for the Avebury World Heritage Site. Salisbury, England: Trust for Wessex Archaeology Ltd, 54-57.
  • Allen, M.J., 2001. Research Strategies: Palaeo-Environmental Evidence. In: Chadburn, A. and Pomeroy Kellinger, M., eds. Archaeological Research Agenda for the Avebury World Heritage Site. Salisbury, England: Trust for Wessex Archaeology Ltd, 70.
  • Allen, M.J., 2001. Methods and Techniques, Environmental Archaeology. In: Chadburn, A. and Pomeroy Kellinger, M., eds. Archaeological Research Agenda for the Avebury World Heritage Site. Salisbury, England: Trust for Wessex Archaeology Ltd, 79.

Reports

  • Ellis, C.J. and Allen, M.J., 2004. "Land Snails from Neolithic Contexts" In A Prehistoric Ritual Complex at Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire:Excavation of a Multi-Period Site in the Great Ouse Valley 2000-2001. Salisbury, England: Wessex Archaeology.
  • Ellis, C.J., Allen, M.J., Clapham, A.J., Gale, R., Robinson, M. and Sykes, N., 2004. "Evidence of the Physical Environment and Farming Economy" In A Prehistoric Ritual Complex at Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire: Excavation of a Multi-Period Site in the Great Ouse Valley 2000-2001. Salisbury, England: Wessex Archaeology.
  • Ellis, C.J., Allen, M.J., Rhodes, E., Beavan, N. and Groves, C., 2004. "Absolute Chronology" In A Prehistoric Ritual Complex and Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire: Excavation of a Multi-Period Site in the Great Ouse Valley 2000-2001. Salisbury, England: Wessex Archaeology.
  • Davies, S.M., Bellamy, P.S., Heaton, M.J., Woodward, P.J. and Allen, M.J., 2002. "The Environmental Background": In Excavations at Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, 1984-87. Dorchester: Dorset Natural History & Archaeology Society.
  • Davies, S.M., Bellamy, P.S., Heaton, M.J., Woodward, P.J. and Allen, M.J., 2002. "The Land Molluscs": In Excavations at Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, 1984-87. Dorchester: Dorset Natural History & Archaeology Society.
  • Davies, S.M., Allen, M.J., Bellamy, P.S., Heaton, M.J. and Woodward, P.J., 2002. "Coprolites": In Excavations at Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, 1984-87. Dorset Natural History & Archaeology Society.
  • Davies, S.M., Bellamy, P.S., Heaton, M.J., Woodward, P.J. and Allen, M.J., 2002. "The Development of the Alington Ridge: Summary of the Landscape Evolution", in Excavations at Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, 1984-87. Dorchester: Dorset Natural History & Archaeology Society.