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- 1. The Power of Pits Maximising research potential in historic settlements through community sourcing Carenza Lewis Professor for the Public Understanding of Research
- 2. Advancing humanities research through engaged scholarly community crowdsourcing 1. Background: Aims and outcomes of the CORS project 2. How humanities research has been inspired and enabled through community crowdsourcing combining professional and non-professional input 3. How the volume of research and the scholarly and social reach and impact of humanities research has been increased through crowdsourced co-production crossing institutional and professional boundaries.
- 3. Advancing humanities research through engaged scholarly community crowdsourcing 1. Background: Aims and outcomes of the CORS project 2. How humanities research has been inspired and enabled through community crowdsourcing combining professional and non-professional input 3. How the volume of research and the scholarly and social reach and impact of humanities research has been increased through crowdsourced co-production crossing institutional and professional boundaries.
- 4. Advancing humanities research through engaged scholarly community crowdsourcing 1. Background: Aims and outcomes of the CORS project 2. How humanities research has been inspired and enabled through community crowdsourcing combining professional and non-professional input 3. How the volume of research and the scholarly and social reach and impact of humanities research has been increased through crowdsourced co-production crossing institutional and professional boundaries.
- 7. 10cm 10cm 10cm 10cm Context 1 Context 2 Context 3 Context 4 Each pit is excavated in 10cm spits/contexts
- 8. All excavated spoil is dry sieved through a standard 10mm mesh sieve Finds from each 10cm spit/context are kept separate.
- 9. Pottery is used for large-scale analysis because it is: • widely used in the medieval period, • frequently discarded • durable in archaeological contexts, • easily datable It can thus act as a proxy for human presence
- 10. % pits producing 2+ sherds Roman pottery (sites with 23+ pits dug)
- 12. 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Disturbed levels 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Undisturbed levels Pirton 2007-11 Test pits containing pottery dating to 700 BC – AD 43 N
- 13. 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Disturbed levels 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Undisturbed levels Pirton 2007-11 Test pits containing pottery dating to 1 st – mid 5 th century AD N
- 14. 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Disturbed levels 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Undisturbed levels Pirton 2007-11 Test pits containing pottery dating to mid 5 th – mid 9 th century AD N
- 15. 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Disturbed levels 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Undisturbed levels Pirton 2007-11 Test pits containing pottery dating to mid 9 th – mid 11 th century AD N
- 16. 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Disturbed levels 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Undisturbed levels Pirton 2007-11 Test pits containing pottery dating to mid 11 th – end 14 th century N
- 17. 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Disturbed levels 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Undisturbed levels Pirton 2007-11 Test pits containing pottery dating to 15 th – mid 16 th century N
- 18. 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Disturbed levels 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Undisturbed levels Pirton 2007-11 Test pits containing pottery dating to mid 16 th – end 18 th century AD N
- 19. 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Disturbed levels 1 sherd 4g or less 1 sherd 5g or more 2-4 sherds 5 sherds or more Undisturbed levels Pirton 2007-11 Test pits containing pottery dating to the 19 th century N
- 20. CORS Project 2005-15 6 counties 50 communities Scores of groups 2,000 excavations 10,000 volunteers 50,000 pot sherds
- 22. Bigger pictures…
- 26. Community crowd-sourced research – inspiring and enabling • Partners: HEIs, schools, local history groups, community groups, charities, arts organisations, AONBs, county councils • Funders: Aimhigher, Heritage Lottery Fund, University of Cambridge, AHRC, English Heritage, Arts Council England, landscape partnerships, local societies, local businesses, individual sponsors
- 27. Inspiring and enabling: Community crowd-sourcing enables research through: • Person-power – support, excavation, background research • New sites suggested • Access negotiated • Locally-informed logistical advice and planning • Routes into diverse funding sources • Money raised • Local and specialist knowledge contributed • Observations/explanations offered • New questions raised
- 28. Crowd-sourced research 2 How the quantum, reach and impact of the research has been increased
- 29. N 0 miles 50 Gaywood Hindringham Binham Wisbech St Mary Thorney Ufford Ramsey Castor Houghton Sharnbrook Pirton Ashwell Willingham Cottenham Girton Shelford Isleham Garboldisham Carleton Rode Acle Chediston Coddenham Melford Clare West Mersea Thorrington Writtle Little Hallingbury Manuden Mill Green Hessett Bramford Paston Potton Peakirk Clavering Nayland S Bulbeck Stapleford Walberswick Wiveton Terrington St Clement Daws Heath Amwell Rampton Shillington Shefford Castleton Warnborough Kibworth Smarden Southwold Waldingfield Sudbury Bures Riseley Sawtry Toft Meldreth Grimston W Wickham 2,000+ pits HEFA HEFA/community Community
- 30. Research quantum and reach 50+ case studies 2,000+ new excavations 10,000 volunteers 100,000 sherds • New perspectives on long-term local and regional development • Comparative benchmarks established • Advanced understanding of settlement change • New information about historical demography • Methodological validation • Dynamic scope
- 31. Social Impact 10,000 volunteers; 150,000 hours • Better and wider public understanding of the research process • Knowledge cascaded, propagated and snowballed • New skills instilled • Aspirations raised • Appreciation of local environment enhanced • Social connections developed • Well-being improved • Dissemination to new audiences
- 32. % pits producing 2+ sherds Roman pottery (sites with 23+ pits dug)
- 33. PIRTON Test Pit Locations 2007 (Green), 2008 (Blue), 2009 (Yellow), 2010 (Purple) & 2011 (Orange) 1 2 3 5 4 1 8 7 9 15 16 10 17 7 13 14 11 1226 27 28 20 21 18 12 2 3 5 4 11 13 6 19 22 14 15 16 17 2 6 1 3 4 5 8 9 10 19 20 21 24 22 25 23 2318 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 12 3 4 5 7 9 6 8 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 25 8 9 10 11 12 N 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
- 40. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Eastern regional Kibworth Castleton Reeth From plot to street to region – beyond eastern England
- 41. Conclusion: Enhancing research through engaged scholarly community crowdsourcing • Community crowd-sourcing can be used to instigate, execute, finance and expand valid, important and useful humanities research which would otherwise be impossible • Community crowd-sourcing can very effectively increase the scholarly and social reach, benefits and impact of humanities research. • Academic input provides structure and support as well as the connectivity and contextualisation needed to make the outputs of community-sourced research greater than the sum of their parts, enhancing their impact and reflexively facilitating further engagement.
- 44. Project area
- 47. N 0 miles 50 Gaywood Hindringham Binham Wisbech St Mary Thorney Ufford Ramsey Castor Houghton Sharnbrook Pirton Ashwell Willingham Cottenham Girton Gt Shelford Isleham Garboldisham Carleton Rode Acle Chediston Coddenham Long Melford Clare West Mersea Thorrington Writtle Little Hallingbury Manuden Hessett Bramford Paston Potton Peakirk Clavering Nayland Swaffham Bulbeck Stapleford Walberswick Wiveton Terrington St Clement Daws Heath Amwell Shillington Meldreth West Wickham Roman (late C1 st – late C4 th ) 0 1-9% 10-19% 20-29% 30-39% 40-49% 50-60% 61%+ Toft Sudbury
- 48. N 0 miles 50 Gaywood Hindringham Binham Wisbech St Mary Thorney Ufford Ramsey Castor Houghton Sharnbrook Pirton Ashwell Willingham Cottenham Girton Gt Shelford Isleham Garboldisham Carleton Rode Acle Chediston Coddenham Long Melford Clare West Mersea Thorrington Writtle Little Hallingbury Manuden Hessett Bramford Paston Potton Peakirk Clavering Nayland Swaffham Bulbeck Stapleford Walberswick Wiveton Terrington St Clement Daws Heath Amwell Shillington Meldreth West Wickham Early Anglo-Saxon (late C4 th – late C7 th ) 0 1-9% 10-19% 20-29% 30-39% 40-49% 50-60% 61%+ Toft Sudbury
- 49. N 0 miles 50 Gaywood Hindringham Binham Wisbech St Mary Thorney Ufford Ramsey Castor Houghton Sharnbrook Pirton Ashwell Willingham Cottenham Girton Gt Shelford Isleham Garboldisham Carleton Rode Acle Chediston Coddenham Long Melford Clare West Mersea Thorrington Writtle Little Hallingbury Manuden Hessett Bramford Paston Potton Peakirk Clavering Nayland Swaffham Bulbeck Stapleford Walberswick Wiveton Terrington St Clement Daws Heath Amwell Shillington Meldreth West Wickham Late Anglo-Saxon (late C9 th –late C11 th ) 0 1-9% 10-19% 20-29% 30-39% 40-49% 50-60% 61%+ Toft Sudbury
- 50. N 0 miles 50 Gaywood Hindringham Binham Wisbech St Mary Thorney Ufford Ramsey Castor Sharnbrook Ashwell Willingham Cottenham Isleham Garboldisham Carleton Rode Acle Chediston Coddenham Long Melford West Mersea Thorrington Writtle Little Hallingbury Manuden Hessett Bramford Paston Potton Peakirk Clavering Walberswick Wiveton Terrington St Clement Daws Heath Amwell High medieval Early C12 th –mid C14 th ) 0 1-9% 10-19% 20-29% 30-39% 40-49% 50-60% 61%+ Toft Houghton Pirton Girton Gt Shelford Swaffham Bulbeck Stapleford Shillington Meldreth West Wickham Clare Nayland Sudbury
- 51. N 0 miles 50 Gaywood Hindringham Binham Wisbech St Mary Thorney Ufford Ramsey Castor Houghton Sharnbrook Pirton Ashwell Willingham Cottenham Girton Gt Shelford Isleham Garboldisham Carleton Rode Acle Chediston Coddenham Long Melford West Mersea Thorrington Writtle Little Hallingbury Manuden Hessett Bramford Paston Potton Peakirk Clavering Swaffham Bulbeck Walberswick Wiveton Terrington St Clement Daws Heath Amwell Shillington Meldreth West Wickham Late medieval (late C14 th – mid C16 th ) 0 1-9% 10-19% 20-29% 30-39% 40-49% 50-60% 61%+ Toft Clare Sudbury Stapleford Nayland