Publications (selected)
Specialist Reports
Starley, D. (2008-2015) Archaeometallurgical Reports:
01/08: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Castle Lane Bedford (CLB965)
02/08: The Analysis of Metalworking Debris from Northgate House (WINCM:AY93) and Winchester Discovery Centre (WINCM:AY220), Winchester
03/08: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Purimachos Cement Works, 14 Waterloo Road, St. Philips, Bristol (BUAD 4435)
04/08: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Downside Mill, Cobham Surrey (DMC08)
01/09: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Chippenham, Cambs. (CHP LPC 08)
02/09: The Analysis of Iron Age and Roman Metalworking Debris from Bob’s Wood, Hinchingbrooke, Cambridgeshire (STUHIN97, 00, 03)
03/09: The Analysis of Iron Age and Roman Metalworking Debris from Love’s Farm, St.Neots, Cambridgeshire. (STRLF03,05, 06, 08)
04/09: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Devon Pipeline. (FTC05/6, OTA 06, ATK06)
05/09: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from North Moor Road, Messingham, Lincolnshire (MENO 09)
06/09: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from Connecting Derby Inner Ring Road (1300)
07/09: The Metallographic Analysis of an Iron Age Currency Bar from Gransmoor, East Yorkshire.
08/09: The Assessment of Iron Age Ironworking Debris from St Ann’s Heath School, Virginia Water, Surrey
01/10: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Hengrove Farm, Staines, Surrey
02/10: The examination of metalworking Debris from The Wiend, Wigan 1982-4 & 2008
03/10: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Eilean Donan Castle, Ross-shire (LDC09)
04/10: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from Connecting Derby Inner Ring Road (1300) Updated report
05/10: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from A46 Newark to Wilderspool Road Widening
06/10: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Leintwardine Community Centre, Herefordshire (LCC10)
07/10: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Staple Chambers, Staple Gardens, Winchester, Hampshire (SG10)
08/10: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Church St., Leintwardine, Herefordshire (CSL10)
09/10: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Aubrey St., Hereford (ASH10)
10/10: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from The Tything, Worcester (TTW10)
01/11: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Stretton Grandison, Herefordshire Phase II (LORSG2)
02/11: The Physical and Analytical Examination of Metalworking Debris from Devon Pipeline (FTC05/6, OTA06, ATK06)
03/11: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Parkside Coventry (PC10)
04/11: The Assessment of Potential of ferrous Artefacts from a Princely Burial at Prittlewell, Essex for Technological Analysis
02/12: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from A46 Newark to Widmerpool Road Widening
03/12: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from A1 Dishforth to Barton Improvement
04/12: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris Sixpenny Wood Wind Farm, East Yorkshire (SIXW)
01/13: The Analysis of the Technology of the Artefacts from a Princely Saxon Burial at Prittlewell, Essex
02/13: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Lydney, Gloucestershire (LSL11)
03/13: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Banwell, Somerset (BWB12)
04/13: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Derby, Princess Supermarket (PSD13)
05/13: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Staple Gardens, Winchester (SHW12)
06/13: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from The Queens, Lower Galdeford, Ludlow (GLQ13)
07/13: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Charterhouse on Mendip, Somerset (BRC13)
08/13: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Victoria to Trinity, Bristol (VST12)
09/13: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Tophill Low to Haisthorpe Pipeline, East Riding of Yorkshire (THL11)
10/13: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Greatham North Renewal (GNR12)
11/13: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Fraisthorpe, East Yorkshire (FRA12)
01/14: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Dymock, Gloucestershire (LWWD13)
02/14: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from Kirkstall Abbey Smithy
03/14: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Pepper Lane, Ludlow (PPL14)
04/14: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Rosebery Court, Monkseaton (RCM14)
01/15: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris Shipton Moyne via Easton Grey to Tolldown Reservoir Mains Rehabilitation Scheme (BWSMT13)
02/15: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from Lucker hall, Northumberland (LHL14)
03/15: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Outlane Golf Club, West Yorkshire (OUTG)
04/15: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Great Barton, Suffolk (BRG075)
05/15: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk (BRG075)
06/15: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from Dovecote Farm, Astwood, Buckinghamshire (DFA485)
07/15: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from Kickles Farm, Lakes Lane, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire (KNP2451)
08/15: The Assessment of Industrial Debris from Oakington Road, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire (ELB 4564)
01/16: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from the 2001 Excavations at North Park farm, Bletchingley, Surrey
(NPF01)
02/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Godmanchester, Corpus Christi Lane (ECB4601)
03/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from the A1 Leeming to Barton Improvement
04/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from London Road, Ipswich (LRI16)
05/16: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from Baghill House, Walkergate, Pontefract (BAGH)
06/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Pinbrook Enclosure, Exeter, Devon (PBE15)
07/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Shinfield, Berks (NCUT15)
08/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Hill Barton, Exeter, Devon (HEX15)
09/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Cadnam Farm, Alton, Hants (CADF16)
10/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Barford, Warwicks (WRB14)
11/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from North Buntingford, Hertfordshire (HPFB16)
12/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Land West of Bridge Street and Wilkins Close, Barford, Warwicks (BR16)
13/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Cannington, Somerset (CANN16)
14/16: The Assessment of Industrial Debris from Milton Keynes Western Expansion Area 11, Trench F, Buckinghamshire (MKWE14)
15/16: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from Cunsey Forge, Cumbria (CF16)
16/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Land at 21 to 35 Great North Road, Eaton Socon, Cambridgeshire (ECB4416)
17/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk Phase 2 (ENF 139716)
18/16: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Salisbury Bus Station, Wiltshire (BUS15)
19/16: The Assessment of Ironworking Debris from the A1 Leeming to Barton Improvement : Fields 176 & 179, Catterick
01/17: The Examination of Ironworking Debris from the A1 Leeming to Barton Improvement : Fields 200-203, Gatherley
02/17: The Assessment of Ironworking Debris from the A1 Leeming to Barton Improvement : Fields 207-211 & 263
(Scurragh House)
03/17: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from Brook Farm, Thorpe End, Norfolk (ENF141586)
04/17: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Eagle Farm North, Milton Keynes (EFN13)
05/17: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Rugby, Warwicks (SUE16)
06/17: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Cleevelands (Swales) Glos. (CER14)
07/17: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Saxon Rise 2, Brixworth, Northants (SAX016)
08/17: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Beech Hill, Spencer's Wood, Wokingham, Berks (BHSW16)
09/17: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Hinkley Point, Somerset (HBU14)
10/17: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Paston Reserve, (PCCHER54011 & PCCHER54076), Peterborough, Cambs.
11/17: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Milton Keynes Western Expansion Area 10 SCH17 Evaluation
Trenches 1-57
12/17: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from GO330 Pipeline Renewals (A66 at Carkin Moor- CAR16)
13/17: The Assessment of Possible Metalworking Debris from Cranmere School Site, Arran Way, Esher, Surrey (CSE13)
14/17: The Assessment of Industrial Debris from the 2017 Excavations at Groombridge - Hourne farm, Rotherfield, East Sussex (GHF17)
01/18: The Examination of Ironworking Debris from the A1 Leeming to Barton Improvement: Death, Burial and Identity related Contexts
02/18: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Excavations at Thrapston Rd., Ellington, Cambridgeshire (ECB5151)
03/18: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from the Excavations at March Rd, Wimblington, Cambridgeshire (ECB4671)
04/18: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from the Excavations at Austery, North Warwickshire (MSA18)
05/18: The Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Excavations at Oakingham Road, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire (ECB4564)
06/18: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from North Buntingford, Hertfordshire (HPFB16)
07/18: An Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Winchester College Evaluation (WCW18)
08/18: An Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Bury St. Edmunds, Westgate (BSE498)
09/18: An Assessment of Metalworking Debris from The Street, Easton, Suffolk (ETN023)
10/18: The Examination of Metalworking Debris from Eagle Farm North, Miton Keynes (EFN13)
11/18: An Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Anglesey Abbey (ECB5267)
12/18: An Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Church Rd, Boreham, Essex (BOPR18)
13/18: An Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Barrow Hill Suffolk (BRR060)
14/18: An Assessment of Metalworking Debris from Excavations on the Kedington to Boyton Hall Pipeline, Great Wratting, Suffolk (WTL014)
01/18: The Examination and Cataloguing of Ironworking Debris from the A1 Leeming to Barton Improvement: Establishment, Consolidation and Retreat Related Contexts
Starley, D. (1999-2008) Royal Armouries Record Sheets 1517 to 2093. (totalling 574)
Starley, D. (2000-2006) Royal Armouries Technical Reports 2000/1 to 2006/2. (totalling 14)
Starley, D. (1992-1999) Ancient Monuments Lab Reports (totalling 47)
Starley, D. (1992) Ancient Metallurgy Research Group Reports (totalling 11)
Published Papers and Contributions
Mackenzie, R. & Starley D. (2020) Ferrous Metalmorking in Fell, D. Contact, Concord and Conquest: Britons and Roman at Scotch Corner Archaeology Data Service: https://doi.org/10.5284/1078330 (576-581).
Starley, D. (2018) Metalworking. In Fell, D and Robinson, G, Life of Brine? Bronze Age and Later Discoveries at Marsh House Farm, Greatham, Hartlepool, NAA Monograph Series 2, Barnard Castle 26-27.
Bayley, J, Starley, D, Wrathmell, S. (2018) Industrial Activity in and around the Precinct. In Wrathmell, S. Kirkstall Abbey Volume II The Guest House Yorkshire Archaeology 12 West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service 171-191.
Starley, D. (2015) Metalworking Activity. In Cooke, N and Mudd, A, A46 Nottinghamshire; The Archaeology of the Newark to Widmerpool Improvement Scheme, 2009, Cotswold Archaeology Monograph Wessex Archaeology Monograph 7/34, Cirencester 235-239, 260.
Starley, D. & Cubitt, R. (2014) Wars of the Roses: Battlefield Arrowheads Under the Microscope. Historical Metallurgy 48 1&2 61-68.
Starley, D. (2014) Metalworking. In Mudd, A and Joyce, S, The Archaeology of the South-West reinforcement Gas Pipeline, Devon, Cotswold Archaeology Monograph 6, Cirencester 115-120.
Starley, D. (2012) The Slag. In Hayman,G et al, Settlement Sites and Sacred Offerings. Prehistoric and Later Archaeology in the Thames Valley, Near Chertsey, Spoil-Heap Publications, London 172-3.
Starley, D. (2012) The Metalworking Debris. In Ford, B and Teague, S, Winchester a City in the Making, Oxford Archaeology, Oxford 335-8.
Starley, D and Draper, A (2011) Analysis of a Hail-Shot Piece and shot in Hildred, A (ed) Weapons of Warre: The Armaments of the Mary Rose. Mary Rose Trust, Portsmouth p 302-4.
Halkon, P. & Starley, D (2011) The Gransmoor Currency Bar. In Halkon, P. (with contribution by D. Starley) Iron, Landscape and Power in East Yorkshire. The Archaeological Journal 168 p 146-148.
Starley, D. (2009) A Technological Study of Knives and Spearheads. In Hirst, S. and Clark, D. Excavations at Mucking. Volume 3, The Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries. Part i Introduction, catalogues and Specialist Reports. Museum of London Archaeology, London 423-426.
Starley, D. (2009) Metallurgy of Spearheads and Metallurgy of Knives. In Carver, M et al Wasperton: A Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon Community in Central England, The Boydell Press.
Starley, D & Loveluck, C. (2009) Metallographic Examination of Knife Blades. Also Ironworking Debris and Manufacturing Processes. In Evans, D. & Loveluck, C. (eds). Life and Economy at Early Medieval Flixborough, c. AD600-1000: The Artefact Evidence. Oxford, Oxbow Monograph 229-231 & 322-328.
Fell, V and Starley, D (2009) Technological Study of Ferrous Blades. In Scull, C (ed). Early Medieval (Late 5th-Early 8th Centuries AD) Cemeteries at Boss Hall and Buttermarket, Ipswich, Suffolk. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph, 27 p237-238.
Starley, D. (2008) The Appliance of Science at the Royal Armouries: The Ten Greatest Discoveries of the Royal Armouries. In The Universal Heritage of Arms and Military History: Challenges & Choices in a Changing World. ICOMAM Conference Acta, Vienna 2007. Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Wien 167-76.
Richardson, T. & Starley, D. (2008) Jack of Plate. In Garner,D. et al.(ed) Excavations at 25 Bridge St, Chester, Chester City Council, Chester 322-5.
Starley, D. & Cahill, F. (2007) Chapter 28. X-radiographic Examination of a Historic Mannequin on Display in Edinburgh Castle. In O’Connor, S. and Brooks, M. (eds), X-radiography of Textiles, Dress and Related Objects, Elsevier, Oxford 319-24.
Starley, D. (2006) Only Skin Deep: Residual Surface Coatings on Arms and Armour. In Smith, R. (ed) Make All Sure: The Conservation and Restoration of Arms and Armour, Basiliscoe Press, Leeds 1-5.
Starley, D. (2005) New Methods for Identifying Ironsmithing in English Castles. In Pettersson Jensen, I-M & Magnusson, G., (eds), Slagg i Medeltida Städer Metallhantering I Medeltida Borgar, Stockholm, Jernkontorets 77-86.
Starley, D. (2005) What’s the Point? A Metallurgical Insight into Medieval Arrows. In Bork, R. (ed)., De Re Metallica, The Uses of Metal in the Middle Ages. AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art 4, Ashgate, Aldershot 207-18.
Starley, D. (2004) Examination of Slag and other Ferrous Metalworking Debris. In Blagg, T et al, Excavations at a large Romano-British Settlement at Hacheston, Suffolk, 1973-74. East Anglian Arch. Monog. 106, Archaeological Service, Suffolk C.C., Ipswich 141-3.
Other Publications
Starley, D. (2005) Brigandines and Jackplates. Datasheet 36, Finds Research Group AD700-1700.
Starley, D. (2002) An Introduction to Metalworking Evidence on Archaeological Sites - Preparation & Planning. Datasheet 16, Historical Metallurgy Society.
Davis, M. and Starley, D. (2002) The Care and Curation of Metallurgical Samples. Datasheet 15, Historical Metallurgy Society.
McDonnell, J.G. and Starley, D. (2002) Excavation and Sampling Strategies for Metalworking Sites. Datasheet 9, Historical Metallurgy Society.
Starley, D. (1995) Metallographic Examination. Datasheet 11, Historical Metallurgy Society.
Starley, D. (1995) Hammerscale. Datasheet 10, Historical Metallurgy Society.