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Previous BSAJ Projects

NB: What follows is an incomplete list. Please apply to the Director for missing details or in regard to unlisted projects.

Tanturah-Dor
(1924) John Garstang

Galilee Survey
(1923-5) F. Turville-Petre

Jerash
(1928-1931) John W. Crowfoot

Carmel Caves
(1929-1934) Dorothy Garrod

Samaria
(1931-1933, 1935) John W. Crowfoot
Published as Samaria-Sebaste volumes.

Excavations at Jericho
(1930-1936) John Garstang
Archives and material held by the PEF and University of Liverpool, and also the Kenyon Institute. Published as preliminary reports in the Liverpool Annals.

Archaeological Survey of Palestine
(1935-1939) P.L.O. Guy
Archives held by the PEF.

Hazor
John Garstang
Archives held by the PEF.

Excavations at Jericho
(1952-1958) Kathleen Kenyon
Material and archives held by University of Cambridge and various other museums in the UK and elsewhere. Some archives held by Kenyon Institute.
Published as Excavations at Jericho Vols 1-V (Copyright held by CBRL).
Contact: Director, Kenyon Institute

Excavations at Jerusalem
(1961-67), directed by Dame Kathleen Kenyon
Published as Excavations in Jerusalem Vols 1-V (Vol. VI in prep.).
Further details: see the CBRL’s Ancient Jerusalem Project website.

Damascus Gate excavations
Prof. Basil Hennessy (University of Sydney, Emeritus)
Published by G.J. Wightman (1989): The Damascus Gate, Jerusalem (BAR-S519: Oxford)
Archives held at the University of Sydney

The Red Tower (al-Burj al-Ahmar) excavation and central Sharon Plain survey
(1983), directed by Denys Pringle.
Published as D. Pringle, The Red Tower (al-Burj al-Ahmar): Settlement in the Plain of Sharon at the Time of the Crusaders and Mamluks, A.D 1099–1516 (BSAJ: London 1986).
Excavation archive deposited at the PEF, London, and finds with the IAA.

Tel Jezreel
(1990-1996), directed by John Woodhead (BSAJ) and David Ussishkin (Tel Aviv University).
Finds stored at the Kenyon Institute, archives at the British Institute in Amman. For further details, see below.

Architecture of Islamic Jerusalem
(1969-1984)
Published by Michael H. Burgoyne and D.S. Richards (Mamluk Jerusalem, BSAJ and World of Islam Festival Trust 1987). Subsequent volumes include Sylvia Auld and Robert Hillenbrand (2000): Ottoman Jerusalem (BSAJ and Altajir), and R. Hillenbrand and S. Auld, Ayyubid Jerusalem (2009): The Holy City in Context, 1187-1250 (Altajir).

Upper Zohar Fort excavation
(1985-6), directed by Richard P. Harper.
Published as R.P. Harper (1995): Upper Zohar: An Early Byzantine Fort in Palaestina Tertia (BSAJ: Oxford).
Finds in IAA.

Belmont Castle
(1986-1988), directed by Richard P. Harper and D. Pringle, with a more recent landscape survey by Joanne Clarke and Shimon Gibson.
Published as Harper, R.P. and Pringle, D. (2000). Belmont Castle: The Excavation of a Crusader Stronghold in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Oxford : British Academy Monographs (for CBRL and OUP).
Site archive deposited with PEF, London, finds with IAA.

Crusader Churches
(1979-1988) directed by Denys Pringle.
Publication in four volumes published by Cambridge University Press: (1998). The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus, vol. II. L-Z (excluding Tyre); (1993) The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus, vol. I. A-K (excluding Acre and Jerusalem); (2007) The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus, vol. III. The City of Jerusalem; (2009) The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus, vol. IV. The cities of Acre and Tyre with Addenda and Corrigenda to Vols 1-III; and (1997) Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer. There is also a companion volume: Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer (1997).

Gazetteer of Medieval and Ottoman Buildings in Palestine
Directed by Andrew Petersen and Denys Pringle.
The studies of pre-1967 Israel (excluding West Jerusalem) sponsored by the BSAJ was published as Petersen, A. (2001) A Gazeteer of Medieval and Ottoman Buildings in Palestine, Part I, Oxford University Press : British Academy and supplemented by Denys Pringle’s Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An archaeological gazetteer (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Part II, which concerns the West Bank and Gaza Strip, is in preparation. Recent selected studies appear in Levant 35 (2003) & 37 (2005).

Continuing Projects

Ramla Project
(1992-2001) directed by Denys Pringle with in-put from Andrew Petersen and others. Interim statements and studies appear in Levant.
Interim statements and studies appear in Levant. Final publication in preparation.

Jaba’ Village Ethnoarchaeological Project
(2000) Shimon Gibson and Jamal Bargouth

Gaza Research Project
(1999-2000): a joint Anglo-Palestinian project, directed by Joanne Clarke, Moain Sadeq and Louise Steel.
Artefacts stored in Gaza; published into two papers by Steel et al. and Clarke et al. in Levant 36, (2004).

Tel Jezreel Post-Excavation and Publication Project
(2003 – 2009), Prof. Bill Finlayson and Dr Charlotte Whiting.

For current archaeological projects, please see the full list of current CBRL projects on this website.