July 2010: Further 250 Grey Literature reports now online. The ADS is pleased to announce the release of a further 262 reports into the Grey Literature Library. Highlights this month include a desk-based assessment of the South Seafront at Felixstowe (by Suffolk County Council Archaeological Services) particularly focused on the Martello Tower 'P' and its associated military zone, which were part of a line of defences along the Essex and Suffolk coastline constructed in the early 19th-century. It also includes a building survey of the early 16th-century Town House in Dunbar (CFA Archaeology Ltd) which was later used as the town gaol and council chambers. The release also contains GSB Prospection's geophysical report from Baliscate, Isle of Mull, part of an Early Christian religious complex, carried out in advance of the recent Time Team investigation.Three new organisations - Arrowhead Archaeology, Katharine Sawyer and Derek Hall - have contributed for the first time.

June 2010: ADS website redesign beta test version launched. The ADS is pleased to announce that release of a beta test version of its new website. This beta test site is an opportunity for you to experiment with the site functionality and, if you wish, comment on its usability and its general design, 'look and feel'. The process of migrating archives is underway, but not yet fully complete, so missing archives or archive elements are to be expected. Similarly, the index used in ArchSearch itself has known false positives which will be removed prior to the site launch. We are not asking for comments on specific search results, rather on the usability of the search mechanism. Please note this beta site is only tested against the latest Mozilla Firefox browser, it may not render as expected with other browsers such as Internet Explorer.

June 2010: Post Medieval Fieldwork 2008 summaries released. The Archaeology Data Service and The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology are pleased to announce the release of the 2008 fieldwork summaries. The on-line version of Post-Medieval Fieldwork in Britain and Northern Ireland (PMFBNI) is a new venture for the Post-Medieval Archaeology journal, featuring a searchable digital database for these annually submitted excavation summaries. Fieldwork summaries for 2008 have now been added to this on-line searchable database. These data consist of 567 individual entries, many of which have associated images and links to grey literature in our online library of unpublished fieldwork reports.

May 2010: Eastern Mediterranean landscape project released. The ADS, Jim Crow (University of Edinburgh) and Sam Turner (Newcastle University) are pleased to announce the release of Unlocking historic landscapes in the eastern Mediterranean. Funded by the AHRC, this project adapted and used a new technique developed in Britain (Historic Landscape Characterisation - HLC) for the first time in the eastern Mediterranean to study two rural landscapes in Naxos (Greece) and Thrace (Turkey).