Lofts Farm Project Data Archive

This disc or USB stick contains a complete data archive of a Maldon Archaeological Group rescue project, which began in 1978. Many of the discoveries are yet to be formally published, making the survival of these records even more important. A new section has been added to highlight features of particular note and likely of most interest to others.

The underlined heading text below are links to those sections.

Bronze Age Barrow Excavation

The Lofts Farm Project Overview
An introduction to the Project and an outline of it's main discoveries.

The Lofts Farm Project Video
A 10 minute video presentation of the Lofts Project.



CD and DVD

LoftsDVD2020 - Opens in another tab/window
This section holds a complete presentation of all the raw site data including scans of all site notebook pages, all slide photographs, all site drawings along with copies of all site interim reports.

LoftsNB-HR - Opens in another tab/window
Essentially this provides a higher resolution scan of the site notebooks.


Highlighted Features
This section focuses on discoveries I believe to be of particular interest and worthy of further research. The notes and comments are based on my first hand observation and preliminary finds examination by specialists. Most parts of this section have slideshows and there will be a delay on the first image while the remaining images load.

Context Search - Opens in another tab/window
Provides a way of looking at the recorded context details.

Combined Plans - Opens in another tab/window
Many of the original site plans were too big to be viewed in one scan so were divided into sections on the original DVD. Those scans have now been combined to be viewed complete.


Pitcalc Website Image

Pitcalc Website Content - Opens in another tab/window
Here is a copy of the Pitcalc Website. Pitcalc was a computer program and method which allowed quick planning of isolated features. The Website files also have details and photographs of some distinctive Lofts' archaeological discoveries. Please be aware that external website links within these files may no longer be active.

Lofts Farm Finds Processing
A brief description of the Loft's finds processing.

CD-DVD-USB Version History
This is the history of this Lofts Data Archive.

Bibliography
Some discoveries from Lofts Farm have been published and are listed here along with publications of work on other nearby archaeological sites.