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Gustav Milne

  • M.Phil, MIFA, FSA
  • Honorary Senior Lecturer
  • Project Manager of the Museum of London Wellcome Osteological Research Database (WORD) Project
  • Project Director of the Thames Discovery Programme

Research Interests

Current / recent projects include:

  • Late medieval merchantman from Sandwich, Kent
  • Cinque Ports Coastal Project
  • Classis Britannica
  • Thames Archaeological Survey
  • Excavations undertaken by Professor Grimes in Roman and Medieval London 1946-68

Research Directory

Collaborations

  • English Heritage
  • Environment Agency
  • Dover Museum
  • Museum of London
  • University of Southampton
  • Museum in Docklands: new gallery concerning the early port of London

Educational Background

  • Worked as a professional rescue archaeologist for Museum of London from 1973 to 1991 
  • Studied archaeology at Oxford and at University of London (thesis on ancient harbour installations)
  • Milne, G, 2004 (a) 'The 14th-century Merchant Ship from Sandwich: a study in medieval maritime archaeology'. Archaeologia Cantiana CXXIV, pp 227-26
  • Milne, G, 2004 (b) 'Site 45' in Wharram: a study of settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds, IX: The North Manor & North West Enclosure edited by PA Rahtz and L Watts, York University Archaeological Publications no 11, pp 19-35
  • Bellamy, P & Milne, G 2003 'An evaluation of the late Medieval shipyard facilities at Small Hythe, Kent', Archaeologica Cantiana 123, 353-382
  • Milne, G, 2003. The Port of Medieval London. Tempus Publishing.
  • Milne, G, 2002. Medieval Archaeology in Cripplegate, London 1946-68: archaeology after the Blitz English Heritage Archaeological Report
  • Milne, G, 2002. The Vauxhall (Bronze Age) piled structure, pp 29-30. In Sidell, J., J Cotton et al. The Prehistory & topography of Southwark and Lambeth. MoLAS mono 14.
  • Clarke, H, & Milne, G. 2002 A Medieval shipyard at Small Hythe, pp 12-22. Romney Marsh Irregular, Romney Marsh Research Trust.
  • Milne, G, 2001. Joining the Medieval Fleet, British Archaeology 61: 14-19.
  • Dudley, E, Milne, G, & Appleton, S. 2001. The (medieval) boat found at Kingsteignton Devon, in 1898, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 30, 2: 266-272
  • Milne, G, 2000. A Roman provincial fleet: the Classis Britannica reconsidered, in G Oliver, R Brock, T Cornell & S Hodkinson (eds), The Sea in Antiquity, Oxford: BAR International Series 899, 127-131
  • Milne, G, 1999. Maritime Topography and Medieval London, in J Bill & B Clausen (eds), Maritime Topography and the Medieval Town, National Museum of Denmark studies in archaeology & history, 4, 145-152. Copenhagen
  • Milne, G, McKewan, C & Goodburn, D, 1998. Nautical Archaeology on the Foreshore; hulk recording on the Medway, RCHME
  • Milne, G, 1997. St Bride's Church London: archaeological research 1952-60 & 1992-5, English Heritage Archaeological Report, no. 11
  • Milne, G, Bates, M & Webber, M, 1997. Problems, potential and partial solutions: an archaeological study of the tidal Thames, World Archaeology, 29(1), 130-46
  • Milne, G & Wardle, A, 1996. Early Roman Development at Leadenhall Court, London and related research, Transactions London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, 44(1993), 23-169
  • Milne, G, 1995. Roman London; urban archaeology in the Nation's capital. English Heritage. London: Batsford

Second Supervisor

  • Margaret Broomfield The archaeology, topography and continuing context of the medieval leather industry in London, 600 - 1600 (principal supervisor Bill Sillar)
  • Victoria Yorke-Edwards Obesity in London 1700-1850: the archival and osteoarchaeological evidence (joint second supervisor with Tony Waldron, principal supervisor Simon Hillson)
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