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outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

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Publications

Books

Gillings, M., Pollard, J., Wheatley, D.W. and Peterson, R. 2008. Landscape of the Megaliths: excavation and fieldwork on the Avebury Monuments, 1997-2003. Oxford: Oxbow. 

Gillings, M. and Pollard, J. 2004. Avebury. London: Duckworths. 

Wheatley, D. and Gillings, M. 2002. Spatial Technology and Archaeology: the archaeological applications of GIS.  London: Taylor & Francis. 

Gillings, M., Mattingly, D. and van Dalen, J. (eds) 2000. Geographical Information Systems and Landscape Archaeology. Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology 3. Oxford: Oxbow. 

Gillings, M. and Wise, A. (eds). 1999. Good Practice in the Archaeological Use of Geographical Information Systems: A Guide from the Archaeology Data Service. Oxford: Oxbow

 

Book chapters in Press:

Gillings, M. and Pollard, J. (in press). Breaking megaliths. In R. Hutton & J. Parker (eds). The Cultural Reception of Monuments. Manchester: MUP. 

Pollard, J. and Gillings, M. (in press). The World of Grey Wethers. In G. Cooney, B. O’Connor and J.C. Chapman (eds). Materialitas: working stone, carving identity. Oxford: Oxbow Boks and the Prehistoric Society.

 

Book Chapters:

Gillings, M. (2007) Approaching the Early Neolithic landscape of the Kiri-tó meander: developing GIS approaches to the archaeology of place. In A. Whittle (ed.). The Early Neolithic on the Great Hungarian Plain: investigations of the Körös culture site of Ecsegfalva 23, Co. Békés: 31-46. 

Gillings, M. and Wheatley, D. (2005). Geographic Information Systems. In H. Maschner and C. Chippindale (eds). Handbook of Archaeological Methods: 373-422. Lanham: Alta Mira Press. 

Gillings, M. (2005) The real, the virtually real and the hyperreal. In S. Smiles and S. Moser (eds). Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the image. New York: Blackwells: 223-39. 

Gillings, M., Peterson, R. and Pollard, J. 2004. The destruction of the Avebury monuments. In R. Cleal & J. Pollard (eds). Monuments and Material Culture: 139-163. East Knoyle: Hobnob Press. 

Gillings, M. 2002. Virtual archaeologies and the hyperreal: or, what does it mean to describe something as virtually-real? In P. Fisher and D. Unwin (eds). Virtual Reality in Geography: 17-34. London: Taylor & Francis. 

Brodlie, K., Dykes, J., Gillings, M., Haklay, M.E., Kitchin, R and Kraak, M. 2002. Geography in VR: context. In P. Fisher and D. Unwin (eds). Virtual Reality in Geography: 7-16. London: Taylor & Francis. 

Gillings, M. 2001. Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology. In D.R. Brothwell and A.M. Pollard (eds) Introduction to Archaeological Sciences: 671-683. London: John Wiley & Sons. 

Gillings, M. and Wheatley, D.W. 2001. Seeing is not believing: unresolved issues in archaeological visibility analysis. In B. Slapsak (ed.). On the good use of Geographic Information Systems in Ancient Landscape Studies: 25-36. Brussels: EUR19708. 

Wheatley, D. and Gillings, M. 2000. Vision, Perception and GIS: developing enriched approaches to the study of archaeological visibility. In G. Lock (ed.). Beyond the Map: Archaeology and Spatial Technologies: 1-27. Amsterdam: IOS Press. 

Goodrick, G.T. and Gillings, M. 2000. Constructs, simulations and hyperreal worlds: the role of Virtual Reality (VR) in archaeological research. In G. Lock and K. Smith (eds). On the theory and practice of archaeological computing: 41-58. Oxford: Oxbow. 

Gillings, M. 2000. The utility of the GIS approach in the collection, storage and analysis of surface survey data. In J. Bintliff, M. Kuna and N. Venclova (eds) The Future of Archaeological Field Survey in Europe: 105-120. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. 

Gillings, M. 2000. Plans, Elevations and Virtual worlds: the development of techniques for the routine construction of hyperreal simulations. In J. Barcelo (ed.), Virtual Reality Applications in Archaeological Research: 59-70. Oxford: Archaeopress. 

Gillings, M. and Sbonias, K. 1999. Regional survey and GIS: The Boeotia project. In M. Gillings, D. Mattingly and J. van Dalen (eds) Geographical Information Systems and landscape archaeology: 35-54. Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology 3. Oxford: Oxbow.

Gillings, M. and Mattingly, D. 1999. Introduction. In M. Gillings, D. Mattingly and J. van Dalen (eds) Geographical Information Systems and landscape archaeology: 1-4. Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology 3. Oxford: Oxbow. 

Gillings, M. 1999. Engaging place: exploring the potential of VR in experiential landscape studies. In Dingwall, L., Exon, S., Gaffney, V., Lafflin, S. and van Leusen, M. (eds). Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology: Proceedings of the 25th Anniversary Conference, University of Birmingham, April 1997. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports S750. 

Gillings, M. 1997b. Not Drowning but Waving? The Tisza flood plain revisited. In M. North and I. Johnson (eds) Archaeological Applications of GIS: Proceedings of Colloquium II, UISPP XIIIth Congress. Sydney University Archaeological Methods Series 5 [CD-ROM]. 

Gillings, M. 1997a. Spatial organisation in the Tisza Flood-Plain: Landscape Dynamics and GIS. In J. Chapman and P. Dolukhanov (eds) Landscape in Flux. Central and Eastern Europe in Antiquity: 163-178. Colloquia Pontica 3. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 

Gillings, M. 1995. GIS and the Tisza Flood-Plain: Landscape and Settlement Evolution in North-Eastern Hungary. In G. Lock and Z. Stancic (eds) The Impact of Geographic Information Systems on Archaeology: a European Perspective: 67-84. Taylor & Francis: New York.

 

Journal Articles:

Fyfe, R., Caseldine, C. and Gillings, M. (submitted). Pushing the boundaries of data? Issues in the construction of rich visual past landscapes. Quaternary International

Gillings, M., Pollard, J. and Taylor, J. (in press) The Miniliths of Exmoor. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society

Gillings, M. and Pollard, J. (in press). New geophysical surveys of the megalithic monuments at Longis House and Tourgis (Druid’s Altar), Alderney. Transactions of La Societe Guernesiaise. 

Gillings, M. 2009. Visual affordance, landscape and the megaliths of Alderney. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 28 (4). 

Frieman, C. and Gillings, M. 2007. Seeing is perceiving? World Archaeology 39(1): 4-16. 

Gillings, M., Pollard, J. & Wheatley, D. 2002. An Avenue, a cove and an enclosure: further fieldwork at Beckhampton, near Avebury. PAST: the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society 41: 6-8. 

Gillings, M., Pollard, J. & Wheatley, D. 2002a. Excavations at the Beckhampton Enclosure, Avenue and Cove, Avebury: an interim report on the 2000 season. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 95, 249-58 

Gillings, M., Pollard, J. and Wheatley, D. 2000. Pulling back the covers on sleeping stones: recent excavations on the Beckhampton Avenue, Avebury. Lithics 20: 31-2. 

Gillings, M., Pollard, J. and Wheatley, D. 2000. The rev. William Stukeley's lost megalithic Avenue. PAST: the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society 34: 8-9. 

Gillings, M., Pollard, J. and Wheatley, D. 2000. Avebury and the Beckhampton Avenue. Current Archaeology 167: 428-433. 

Gillings, M., Pollard, J. and Wheatley, D. 2000. The Beckhampton Avenue and a 'new' Neolithic enclosure near Avebury: an interim report on the 1999 excavations. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine vol. 93: 1-8. 

Gillings, M. and Pollard, J. 2002. A Roman Shrine at Beckhampton? Current Archaeology 179: 453. 

Gillings, M. and Pollard, J. 2000. Erecting Altars to Unknown Gods. Archaeological Dialogues 7(1): 88-93. 

Gillings, M. and Pollard, J. 2000. Non-portable stone artefacts and contexts of meaning: The tale of Grey Wether (museums.ncl.ac.uk/Avebury/stone4.htm). World Archaeology 31(2). 

Pollard, J. and Gillings, M. 1998. Romancing the Stones: towards an elemental and virtual Avebury. Archaeological Dialogues 5(2): 143-164. 

Gillings, M. 1998. Embracing uncertainty and challenging dualism in the GIS-based study of a palaeo flood-plain. European Journal of Archaeology 1/1: 117-144. 

Gillings, M. & Goodrick, G.T. 1996. Sensuous and Reflexive GIS: exploring visualisation and VRML. Internet Archaeology 1, (http://intarch.ac.uk/). 


Fieldwork Notes

Gillings, M., Pollard, J. and Taylor, J. 2008. Exmoor, Lanacombe (Somerset Archaeology 2007). Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 151: 229