Publications

Contributions in Monographs and Books

2019

• Allen, M.J. 2019. Palaeo-environment and land-use; the sediment and land snails, 119-130, in Harvard, T., Alexander, M. & Holt, R. Iron Age Fortification beside the River Lark, Excavations at Mildenhall Suffolk. East Anglian Archaeology publications No. 169
• Scaife, R. with Allen, M.J. 2019. Palaeo-environment and land-use; the sediment and land snails, 140-4, in Harvard, T., Alexander, M. & Holt, R. Iron Age Fortification beside the River Lark, Excavations at Mildenhall Suffolk. East Anglian Archaeology publications No. 169

2009

• Allen, M.J. 2009. Molluscs, in Wright, J., Leivers, M., Seager Smith & Stevens, C.J., Cambourne New Settlements; iron Age and Romano-British settlement on the clay uplands of west Cambridgeshire, vol 2 (CD). Wessex Archaeology Report 23. Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology

2008

• Allen, M.J. 2008. Land snails [Battlesbury Bowl], in Ellis, C. & Powell, A.B., An Iron Age Settlement outside Battlesbury Hillfort, Warminster, and sites along the Southern Range Road, 119-124. Wessex Archaeology Report 22. Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology
• Allen, M.J. 2008. Snails [Boreham Farm Bungalow], in Ellis, C. & Powell, A.B., An Iron Age Settlement outside Battlesbury Hillfort, Warminster, and sites along the Southern Range Road, 143-4. Wessex Archaeology Report 22. Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology
• Allen, M.J. 2008. Snails [South-east of Battlesbury Wood], in Ellis, C. & Powell, A.B., An Iron Age Settlement outside Battlesbury Hillfort, Warminster, and sites along the Southern Range Road, 146-7. Wessex Archaeology Report 22. Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology
• Allen, M.J. 2008. Snails [Willis’s Field Barn], in Ellis, C. & Powell, A.B., An Iron Age Settlement outside Battlesbury Hillfort, Warminster, and sites along the Southern Range Road, 161-2. Wessex Archaeology Report 22. Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology

2007

• Allen, M.J. 2007. The molluscs, in Timby, J., Brown, R., Biddulph, E, Hardy, A. & Powell, A., A slice of rural Essex: archaeological discoveries from the A120 between Stanstead Airport and Briantree. Oxford Wessex Archeology Monograph 1
• Allen, M.J. (ed.) 2007. Environmental evidence, in Rawlings, R. By a Crystal Brook; early riverside settlements and a Medieval chapel at Sutton Poyntz, Dorset. Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology, 73-87

2006

• Allen, M.J. 2006. ‘Reconstructing the farmed landscape’, ‘Coprolites’, Discussion; the later prehistoric and early historic farmed landscape’, in Fulford, M.G., Powell, A.B., Entwistle, R. & Raymond, F., Iron Age and Romano-British settlements and landscape of Salisbury Plain, Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology Report 20, 143, 195, 195-196
• Allen, M.J. & Entwistle, R. 2006 The physical environment and land use: molluscan evidence, in Fulford, M.G., Powell, A.B., Entwistle, R. & Raymond, F., Iron Age and Romano-British settlements and landscape of Salisbury Plain, Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology Report 20, 143-152
• Kaminski, J & Allen, M.J., 2006. Charcoal, in Fulford, M.G., Powell, A.B., Entwistle, R. & Raymond, F., Iron Age and Romano-British settlements and landscape of Salisbury Plain, Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology Report 20, 158-164

2005

• Allen, M.J. (ed), 2005. Part 2: Scientific studies: crew, conditions and environment, in Gardiner, J. with Allen, M.J. (eds), Before the Mast; life sand death aboard the Mary Rose. The Archaeology of the Mary Rose vol 4, Portsmouth, Mary Rose Trust Ltd., 501-653
• Allen, M.J. & Oxley, I. 2005. Acquiring the data: introduction to the palaeo-environmental and scientific analyses, in Gardiner, J. with Allen, M.J. (eds), Before the Mast; life sand death aboard the Mary Rose. The Archaeology of the Mary Rose vol 4, Portsmouth, Mary Rose Trust Ltd., 501-515
• Allen, M.J. & Elkerton, A. 2005. Human remains; other scientific analyses, in Gardiner, J. with Allen, M.J. (eds), Before the Mast; life sand death aboard the Mary Rose. The Archaeology of the Mary Rose vol 4, Portsmouth, Mary Rose Trust Ltd., 563.
• Allen, M.J. 2005. Science and the Mary Rose, Other analyses, in Gardiner, J. with Allen, M.J. (eds), Before the Mast; life sand death aboard the Mary Rose. The Archaeology of the Mary Rose vol 4, Portsmouth, Mary Rose Trust Ltd.630, 648
• Gardiner, J. & Allen, M.J. Chapter 17: Concluding comments and avenues for future research, in Gardiner, J. with Allen, M.J. (eds). Before the Mast; life sand death aboard the Mary Rose. The Archaeology of the Mary Rose vol 4, Portsmouth, Mary Rose Trust Ltd. 653-658.

2004

• Allen, M.J. 2004. Land snails from Neolithic contexts, in Ellis, C.J., A Prehistoric Ritual Complex and Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire. Salisbury: EAA Occasional Paper 17, 86-7
• Allen, M.J., Clapham, A.J., Gale, R., Robinson, M. & Sykes, N. 2004. Evidence of the physical environment and farming economy, in Ellis, C.J., A Prehistoric Ritual Complex and Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire. Salisbury: EAA Occasional Paper 17, 69-94
• Allen, M.J., Rhodes, E., Beavan, N. & Groves, C. 2004. Absolute Chronology, in Ellis, C.J., A Prehistoric Ritual Complex and Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire. Salisbury: EAA Occasional Paper 17, 60-68

2002

• Allen, M.J. 2002. The environmental background, in Davies, S.M., Bellamy, P.S., Heaton, M.J. & Woodward, P.J., Excavations at Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, 1984-87. Dorset Natr. Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. Monogr. 15, 9-11
• Allen, M.J. 2002. The land molluscs, in Davies, S.M., Bellamy, P.S., Heaton, M.J. & Woodward, P.J., Excavations at Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, 1984-87. Dorset Natr. Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. Monogr. 15, 48-53, 108-111, 182
• Allen, M.J. 2002. Coprolites, in Davies, S.M., Bellamy, P.S., Heaton, M.J. & Woodward, P.J., Excavations at Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, 1984-87. Dorset Natr. Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. Monogr. 15, 55
• Allen, M.J. 2002. The development of the Alington Ridge; summary of the landscape evolution, in Davies, S.M., Bellamy, P.S., Heaton, M.J. & Woodward, P.J., Excavations at Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester, Dorset, 1984-87. Dorset Natr. Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. Monogr. 15, 185-6
• Allen, M.J. 2002. Snails, in Graham, A.H., Hinton, D.A. & Peacock, D.P.S., The excavation of an Iron Age and Romano-British settlement in Quarry Field, south of Compact Farm, Worth Matravers, in Hinton, D.E. (ed.), Purbeck Papers, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 71

2000

• Allen, M.J. 2000. Soils, Pollen and lots of snails, in Green, M.G. A Landscape Revealed; – 10,000 years on a chalkland farm. Tempus, 36-49
• Allen, M.J. 2000. Soils and magnetic susceptibility, in Price, E., Frocester: a Romano-British Settlement, its Antecedents and Successors, vol 1. Stonehouse, Gloucester and District Archaeological Research Group, 207-210
• Allen, M.J. 2000. Landuse and Economy: the later prehistoric and Early Roman environment of Twyford Down, in Walker, K.E. & Farewell, D.E., Twyford Down, Hampshire Archaeological Investigations on the M3 motorway from Bar End to Compton, 1990-93. Hampshire Field Club Monograph 9, 121-159.
• Allen, M.J. 2000. Land snails from the barrow, in Walker, K. & Farewell, D., M3 Bar End to Compton: archaeological investigations on Twyford Down. Hampshire Fld Club Monogr
• Allen, M.J. 2000. The land snail evidence, in Dawson, M., Iron Age and Roman Settlement on the Stagsden bypass. Bedfordshire Archaeology Monograph 3, 105-107
• Allen, M.J. 2000. The geology of the Elmore Plantation site, Allen, M.J., Andrews, P., Bellamy, P.S., Cooke, N., Ede, J., Gale, R., James, S.E., Loader, E., Macphail, R.I., Mepham, L., Raymond, F., Seager Smith, R. & Wyles, S.F., Archaeological Investigations on the A34 Newbury Bypass, Berkshire/Hampshire. 1991-7; Technical Reports. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeology, 44-46.
• Allen, M.J. 2000. Land snails from Hills Pightle, in Allen, M.J., Andrews, P., Bellamy, P.S., Cooke, N., Ede, J., Gale, R., James, S.E., Loader, E., Macphail, R.I., Mepham, L., Raymond, F., Seager Smith, R. & Wyles, S.F, Archaeological Investigations on the A34 Newbury Bypass, Berkshire/Hampshire. 1991-7; Technical Reports. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeology, 76-77.
• Allen, M.J. 2000. The Palaeo-environmental data: site formation and economy, in Lawson, A.J., Potterne 1982-5; animal husbandry in later prehistoric Wiltshire. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeological Report 17, 122-134
• Allen, M.J. 2000. Other Environmental and scientific analyses, in Lawson, A.J., Potterne 1982-5; animal husbandry in later prehistoric Wiltshire. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeological Report 17, 119-122
• Allen, M.J. 2000. Introduction to the environmental analyses, in Lawson, A.J., Potterne 1982-5; animal husbandry in later prehistoric Wiltshire. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeological Report 17, 45-47
• Allen, M.J., Andrews, P., Bellamy, P.S., Cooke, N., Ede, J., Gale, R., James, S.E., Loader, E., Macphail, R.I., Mepham, L., Raymond, F., Seager Smith, R. & Wyles, S.F. 2000. Archaeological Investigations on the A34 Newbury Bypass, Berkshire/Hampshire. 1991-7; Technical Reports. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeology.
• Allen, M.J. & Walker, K.E. 2000. Radiocarbon dates, in Walker, K.E. & Farewell, D.E., Twyford Down, Hampshire Archaeological Investigations on the M3 motorway from Bar End to Compton, 1990-93. Hampshire Field Club Monograph 9, 117-119.
• Allen, M.J. & Wyles, S.F. 2000. Land Mollusca, in Young, C.J., Excavations at Carisbrook Castle, Isle of Wight 1921-1996. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeology Report 18, 185.
• Lawson, A.J., Allen, M.J. & Bayliss, A. 2000. Radiocarbon dating, in Lawson, A.J., Potterme 1982-5; animal husbandry in later prehistoric Wiltshire. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeological Report 17, 39-42
• Macphail, R.I. & Allen, M.J. 2000. Evaluation of the soil sequence at the Lambourne Valley site, in Allen, M.J., Andrews, P., Bellamy, P.S., Cooke, N., Ede, J., Gale, R., James, S.E., Loader, E., Macphail, R.I., Mepham, L., Raymond, F., Seager Smith, R. & Wyles, S.F., Archaeological Investigations on the A34 Newbury Bypass, Berkshire/Hampshire. 1991-7; Technical Reports. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeology, 8-10
• Young, T.P. & Allen, M.J. 2000. Molluscan Remains, in Price, E. Frocester: a Romano-British Settlement, its Antecedents and Successors, vol 2. Stonehouse, Gloucester and District Archaeological Research Group, 249-252

1999

• Allen, M.J. 1999. Environmental Evidence, in Hearne, C.M. & Birbeck, V., A35 Tolpuddle to Puddletown Bypass, DBFO, Dorset, 1996-8. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeology Report 15.
• Allen, M.J. 1999. Land snail evidence, in Hearne, C.M. & Birbeck, V., A35 Tolpuddle to Puddletown Bypass, DBFO, Dorset, 1996-8. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeology Report 15, 173-187
• Allen M.J. 1999. Radiocarbon dates, 10, 63-5, 88-9,122-3, 158-9, 191, 207-10, and 384 in Fitzpatrick A.P., Butterworth C.A. & Grove J., Prehistoric & Roman Sites in East Devon: the A30 Honiton to Exeter Improvement DBFO Scheme, 1996-9 Wessex Archaeology Report 16
• Allen M.J. 1999. Land snails [Castle Hill], in Fitzpatrick A.P., Butterworth C.A.& Grove J. Prehistoric & Roman Sites in East Devon: the A30 Honiton to Exeter Improvement DBFO Scheme, 1996-9 Wessex Archaeology Report 16, 62-63

1997

• Allen, M.J. 1997. Land-use history: land molluscan evidence, in Smith, R.J.C., Healy, F., Allen, M.J., Morris, E.L., Barnes, I. Woodward, P.J., Excavations along the route of the Dorchester by-pass, Dorset, 1986-8. Wessex Archaeology Report No. 11, 166-183
• Allen, M.J. 1997. Land-use history as evidenced by molluscan and colluvial sequences, in Smith, R.J.C., Healy, F., Allen, M.J., Morris, E.L., Barnes, I. & Woodward, P.J., Excavations along the route of the Dorchester by-pass, Dorset, 1986-8. Wessex Archaeology Report No. 11, 260-267
• Allen, M.J. 1997. Landscape, land-use and farming, in Smith, R.J.C., Healy, F., Allen, M.J., Morris, E.L., Barnes, I. & Woodward, P.J., Excavations along the route of the Dorchester by-pass, Dorset, 1986-8. Wessex Archaeology Report No. 11, 277-283
• Allen, M.J. 1997. Evidence for the environment and farming economy – introduction, in Smith, R.J.C., Healy, F., Allen, M.J., Morris, E.L., Barnes, I. & Woodward, P.J., Excavations along the route of the Dorchester by-pass, Dorset, 1986-8. Wessex Archaeology Report No. 11, 258
• Allen, M.J. 1997. Land Molluscs, in Lyne, M. Lewes Priory, excavations by Richard Lewis 1969-82. Lewes Priory Trust, 163-167
• Coy, J.P. & Allen, M.J., 1997. Cattle Horn Cores, in Hawkes, J.W. & Fasham, P.J., Excavations on the Reading Waterfront Sites. Salisbury, Wessex Archaeology Report 5, 107-8

1996

• Allen, M.J. 1996. Animal bones, in Andrews, P., Hurst Park, East Molesley, Surrey, in Andrews, P. & Crockett, A., Three Excavations along the Thames and its Tributaries, 1994, Wessex Archaeology Report 10, 95.
• Allen, M.J. 1996. The landscape background, in Crockett, A., Iron Age to Saxon settlement at Wickhams Field, nr Reading, Berkshire, in Andrew, P. and Crockett, A., Three Excavations along the Thames and its Tributaries, 1994, Wessex Archaeology Report 10, 153-6
• Allen, M.J. 1996. Discussion of the environmental evidence, in Crockett, A. Iron Age to Saxon settlement at Wickhams Field, near Reading, in Andrews, P. & Crockett, A., Three Excavations along the Thames and its Tributaries, 1994, Wessex Archaeology Report 10, 164-6
• Allen, M.J. 1996. Environmental evidence, in Wilson, P., Excavations at Bedlam Roman Villa. Yorkshire Archaeological Society Monograph.
• Allen, M.J. 1996. Pilot auger survey [Midgham], in Lobb, S.J. & Rose, P.G, Archaeological Survey of the Lower Kennet Valley, Berkshire, Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology Report 9, 58-61
• Winder, J. & Allen, M.J. 1996. Molluscs, in Burns, B., Cunliffe, B. & Sebire, H. Guernsey; an island community of the Atlantic Iron Age. Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph 43, 81

1995

• Allen, M.J. 1995. Land molluscs, in Wainwright G. & Davies, S., Balksbury Camp, Hampshire, Excavations 1973 and 1981, English Heritage Archaeol. Rep. 4, 92-100
• Allen, M.J. 1995. ‘Ditch and feature fills’, ‘Geographical and topographical setting’, ‘Chapter 4: Before Stonehenge’, ‘The environment: landscape and landuse (phase 1)’, ‘The environment: landscape and landuse (phase 2)’, ‘The environment: landscape and monument (phase 3)’, ‘Landscape and landuse (post-monument)’, in Cleal R.M.J., Walker K.E. & Montague R., Stonehenge in its landscape: Twentieth-century Excavations, English Heritage Archaeol. Rep. 10, 4-6, 34, 41-63, 65, 116-7, 168-9, 332-4
• Allen, M.J. & Bayliss, A., 1995. ‘Radiocarbon dates’, ‘Appendix 2: The radiocarbon dating programme’, in Cleal R.M.J., Walker K.E. & Montague R., Stonehenge in its landscape: Twentieth-century Excavations, English Heritage Archaeol. Rep. 10, 6-9, 511-35
• Bronk-Ramsey, C. & Allen, M.J. 1995. Analysis of the radiocarbon dates and their archaeological significance, in Cleal R.M.J., Walker K.E. & Montague R., Stonehenge in its landscape: Twentieth-century Excavations, English Heritage Archaeol. Rep. 10, 525-35
• Cleal, R.M.J. & Allen, M.J. 1995. Stonehenge in its landscape, in Cleal R.M.J., Walker K.E. & Montague R., Stonehenge in its landscape: Twentieth-century Excavations, English Heritage Archaeol. Rep. 10, 464-94
• Cleal, R.M.J. with Allen, M.J. 1995. The visual envelope, in Cleal R.M.J., Walker K.E., & Montague R., Stonehenge in its landscape: Twentieth-century Excavations, English Heritage Archaeol. Rep. 10, 34-40

1993

• Allen, M.J. 1993. ‘Terrestrial Mollusca’, and ‘Marine Mollusca’, in, Smith R.J.C., Excavations at County Hall, Dorchester, Dorset, 1988. Wessex Archaeol. Rep. 4, 71-73, 82
• Allen, M.J. 1993. mollusca – contribution to pre-medieval environment, in Hawkes J.W. & Heaton M.J., Jennings Yard Windsor: A Closed-Shaft Garderobe and Associated Medieval Structures. Wessex Archaeol. Rep. 3 5-10
• Allen, M.J., 1993. ‘Land snails’, ‘Mineralised coprolites and cess’, and in Woodward, P., Davies, S. & Graham, A., Excavations at Greyhound Yard Dorchester 1981-4. Dorset Natur. Hist. Arch. Soc. Monog. 12, 340-345, 349
• Allen, M.J. & Davidge R. 1993. Mollusca, in Hawkes J.W. & Heaton M.J., Jennings Yard, Windsor A Closed-Shaft Garderobe and Associated Medieval Structures. Wessex Archaeol. Rep. 3, 79-82

1992

• Allen, M.J. 1992. Landscape History: The Molluscan Evidence, in Gingell C., The Marlborough Downs: A Later Bronze Age Landscape And its Origins. Wilts. Archaeol. Natur. Hist. Soc. Monog. 1 145-9
• Thompson B. & Allen, M.J., 1992. The pollen, in Butterworth C.A. & Lobb, S.J., Excavations in the Burghfield Area, Berkshire Developments in the Bronze Age and Saxon Landscapes, Wessex Archaeol. Rep. 1, 159-5

1991

• Allen, M.J. 1991. ‘The environmental background’, ‘Exploitation of the landscape and natural resources; the environmental data’, ‘Land Mollusca’, in Cox P.W. & Hearne C.M., Redeemed from the Heath the Archaeology of the Wytch Farm Oilfield. Dorset Natur. Hist. Archaeol. Soc. Monog. 9, 8-9, 196-200, 200-201
• Allen, M.J. & Scaife, R.G., 1991. The exploitation of the flora & fauna and its impact on the natural and derived landscape, in Cox P.W. & Hearne C.M., Redeemed from the Heath the archaeology of the Wytch Farm Oilfield. Dorset Natur. Hist. Archaeol. Soc. Monog. 9
• Allen, M.J. 1991. Beaker settlement and environment, in Allen. M.J. & Seager Smith, R.H. et al. (eds), The Archaeology of the Lewes Area, Lewes Archaeological Group, 17-23
• Allen, M.J. & Seager Smith, R.H. 1991. Plumpton Roman Villa, in Allen. M.J. & Seager Smith, R.H. et al. (eds), The Archaeology of the Lewes Area, Lewes Archaeological Group, 25-31
• Lewis, R.A. & Allen, M.J. 1991. The priory of St. Pancras, Southover, in Allen, M.J. & Seager Smith, R.H., et al. (eds), The Archaeology of the Lewes Area, Lewes Archaeological Group, 41-52
• Staines, S.J. & Allen, M.J. 1991. Pedological report, in P.W. Cox & C.M. Hearne, Redeemed from the Heath: the archaeology of the Wytch Farm Oilfield, Dorset Natur. Hist. Archaeol. Soc. Monog. 9,196-200

1990

• Allen, M.J. 1990. Chapter 17: Magnetic susceptibility, in Bell, M.G. Excavations at Brean Down, Somerset, English Heritage Archaeol Rep. 15, 197-202,
• Allen, M.J. 1990. Mollusca (North Kite), in Richards, J.C., The Stonehenge Environs Project, English Heritage Archaeol. Rep. 16, 191-192
• Allen, M.J., Entwistle, R. & Richards, J.C., 1990. Molluscan Studies, in Richards, J.C. The Stonehenge Environs Project. English Heritage Archaeol. Rep. 16, 253-8

1989

• Allen, M.J. 1989. Land Snails, in Fasham, P. J., Farwell, D.E. & Whinney, R.J.B. The Archaeological Site at Easton Lane, Winchester, Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol. Soc. Monog. 6, 135-140