caron_newman

Caron Newman

Subject Area: Archaeology

PhD Project Title: Mapping the late medieval and post medieval landscape of Cumbria

Supervision team: Sam Turner and Dr Jane Webster

Personal Profile

My research is on the late medieval and post medieval landscape development of Cumbria, concentrating on settlement and fieldscapes. It is a GIS-based project using as its baseline, the Cumbria HLC which I completed for Cumbria County Council. My research involves testing some of the assumptions of HLC through the use of late 18th C county maps and earlier estate maps. The assumption is that late 18th C county maps can provide a window onto the late medieval landscape.

Before coming to Newcastle, I already had a career as a multi-period field archaeologist in various professional units. My main interests, however, are in medieval settlement and post medieval landscapes. I was the medieval period co-ordinator for the North West Archaeological Research Frameworks, and contributed to the Roman, early medieval, post medieval and industrial sections. In recent years I have spent much time studying the development of towns in the North West of England, with a particular interest in industrial-period housing. Amongst my major research projects are the Historic Towns Survey of Lancashire and the Historic Landscape Characterisation of Cumbria.

Academic qualifications

  • BA Hons in History and Archaeology
  • MSc in Archaeology in Computing
  • Member of Institute for Archaeology
  • Fellow of Society of Antiquaries

Conferences papers presented include

  • Small town trade: evidence from Romsey, Hampshire. Medieval Europe 1992
  • Quality Standards and Desk-Based Assessments, IfA 2000
  • History: the handmaiden of archaeology? IfA 2001
  • Valuing the Urban Landscape session organiser, IfA 2002
  • The Cotton Trade and its Influence on Urban and Industrial Development in East Lancashire 1750-1914, Society for Historical Archaeology Colonial Williamsburg USA 2007
  • Modern uses of terraced housing and textile mills in East Lancashire, Association for Industrial Archaeology, Preston 2007
  • Housing the Workforce in 19th Century East Lancashire: mechanisms and meanings, Lancashire Archaeology Day, Lancashire County Council 2008
  • Carlisle: an industrial city, CIHS 2008
  • Historic landscape characterisation, more than a management tool? Crossing Paths or Sharing Tracks? Future Directions for the Archaeological Study of post-1550 Britain and Ireland, Society for Post Medieval Archaeology, Leicester 2009
  • Understanding the medieval settlement of Cumbria, Medieval Settlement Research Group/Centre for North West Regional Studies 2011

Teaching

  • Medieval and post medieval Britain as part of ARA1030: Archaeology of Britain from the Romans to the 20th century.

Committees

Until April 2011 I was a council member of Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeology Society, and remain secretary of its Outreach Committee.

Publications

  • 1985 With Newman R. Vale fabric - a re-evaluation, Medieval and Later Pottery in Wales, 7, 10-19
  • 1987 With Newman R. Stamped clay tobacco pipes from Llanmaes, South Glamorgan, Medieval and Later Pottery in Wales, 9, 35-50
  • 1988 Excavations at Atlantic Trading Estate, Siluria 1, 5-8
  • 1988 Recent discoveries in South Glamorgan, British Archaeology, Sept/Oct, 12-15
  • 1989 New data from old bones, Siluria 2, 19
  • 1990 Clay tobacco pipes, in Newman, R, A Romano-British building at Dan-y-Graig, Porthcawl, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 37, 273
  • 1991 With Newman R. A watching brief and salvage work at the new cricket pavilion, Dymock, Glevensis 24, 22-26
  • 1992 A late Saxon cemetery at Templecombe, Proc Somerset Archaeol and Natur Hist Soc, 136, 61-72
  • 1992 Small town trade: evidence from Romsey, Hampshire, in Exchange and Trade, pre-printed papers from Medieval Europe 1992 conference, volume 5
  • 1993 With Graham A. Recent excavations of Iron Age and Romano-British Enclosures in the Avon valley, Wiltshire, Wilts Archaeol and Natur Hist Mag 86, 8-57
  • 1994 Iron Age settlement at Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, in Fitzpatrick, AP and Morris EL (eds) The Iron Age in Wessex: Recent Work , Association Française D’Etude de L’Age du Fer, 81-86
  • 1994 With Mepham L. and Bonner D.A medieval farmhouse at Meadow Vale Farm, near Wincanton, Proc Somerset Archaeol and Natur Hist Soc 138, 81-99
  • 1996 Medieval pottery, in Parkhouse, J and Evans, E (eds), Excavations in Cowbridge, South Glamorgan, 1977-88, BAR Brit Ser 245
  • 1996 The medieval pottery in Newman R and Wilkinson, P Excavations at Llanmaes, South Glamorgan, Post-Medieval Archaeology, 223-4
  • 1996 The clay tobacco pipes in Newman R and Wilkinson, P Excavations at Llanmaes, South Glamorgan, Post-Medieval Archaeology, 224-6
  • 1997 Archaeological and historical background, in Butterworth, C and Seager-Smith, R, Excavations at the Hermitage, Old Town, Swindon, Wilts Archaeol and Natur Hist Mag 90, 55-7
  • 1997 Clay tobacco pipes, in Harding, P and Newman, R, Monkey Marsh Lock, Thatcham, Berkshire, Post-Medieval Archaeology, 45
  • 1997 Historical context, in Hair, N and Newman, R, Excavation of medieval settlement remains at Crosedale in Howgill, Trans CWAAS, 99, 151-3
  • 2001 Using historical sources in desk-based assessments, The Archaeologist 41, 19
  • 2004 Clay Tobacco Pipes, in Heawood, R et al, Old Abbey Farm, Risley, 122-3
  • 2001 With Morris E. and Bonner D.Iron Age and Romano-British sites along the Bowden Reservoir Link pipeline, south-east Somerset, Proc Somerset Archaeol and Natur Hist Soc, 143, 1-27
  • 2004 With Cleal R. And Allen M. An archaeological and environmental study of the Neolithic and later prehistoric landscape of the Avon Valley and Durrington Walls environs, Wilts Archaeol and Natur Hist Mag, 97, 218-48
  • 2006 The medieval period resource assessment, in Brennand M (ed) The Archaeology in North West England, An Archaeological Research Framework for North West England: Volume 1 Research Assessment, CBA North West, 115-144
  • 2007 With Hardie C. The Cumbria Historic Landscape Characterisation Project.  The Lake District National Park, Cumbria County Council
  • 2007 With Newman R. The medieval period research agenda, in Brennand M (ed) Research and Archaeology in North West England, An Archaeological Research Framework for North West England: Volume 2 Research Agenda and Strategy, CBA North West, 95-114
  • 2008 With Newman R. Housing the workforce in 19th-century east Lancashire: past processes, enduring perceptions and contemporary meanings, Post-Medieval Archaeology 42/1, 181-200
  • 2009 Historic Landscape Characterisation: more than a management tool?, in Horning A and Plamer M (eds) Crossing Paths or Sharing Tracks.  Future Directions in the archaeological study of post-1550 Britain and Ireland (Boydel and Brewer Ltd), 179-201
  • 2009 With Newman R. The Evolution of Dalton, near Kendal, Cumbria: Preliminary Results, The Journal of the Medieval Settlement Research Group, 6-13
  • 2011 The industrial and manufacturing city, in Brennand M and Stringer KJ (eds) The Making of Carlisle from Romans to Railways (CWAAS), 153-172
Historic Town Surveys: Egerton Lea Consultancy with Lancashire County Council Web Publications.
  • 2005 Barnoldswick Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2005 Colne Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2005 Garstang Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2005 Nelson Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2005 Poulton-le-Fylde Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2005 With John Trippier Bacup Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2005 With John Trippier Church and Oswaldtwistle
  • 2005 With John Trippier Darwen Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2005 With John Trippier Haslingden Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2005 With John Trippier Rawtenstall Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2005 With Richard Newman Burnley Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2006 Clitheroe Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2006 Newburgh Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2006 Ormskirk Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2006 Preston with Walton-le-Dale and Penwortham Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2006 With John Trippier Chorley Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2006 With John Trippier Great Harwood Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2006 With John Trippier Slaidburn Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2006 With Bette Hopkins Kirkham Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2006 With Nigel Neal Ribchester Historic Town Assessment Report
  • 2006 With Richard Newman Lancaster Historic Town Assessment Report