Scope and Contents The working papers of James Dengate in connection to his research on the coins excavated by the British team at Mycenae between 1939 to 1962. The papers comprise an off print of his findings, published in the Annual of the British School at Athens, vol 69, 1974, a typescript draft of this article with handwritten annotations in ink, loose leaves of prepratory notes and a spiral bound exercise notebook of handwritten notes, photographic negative and positive...

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Photographs taken in 1920 at the British School at Athens and the British excavation at Mycenae. Images feature the family (wife and daughters) of Garrett (Gerry) Droppers, the American Ambassador to Greece from 1914 to 1920. They are pictured both in the gardens of the British School at Athens and at Mycenae during the British excavations there.

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Thessaly, Macedonia and Thrace pottery surveys 1959-1963 (working notes, hand drawn maps and site plans and pottery drawings); PhD thesis; Mycenae pre-Mycenaean pottery survey notes; Greek, British and Austrian maps of Greece and the Balkans; published reference books by other authors on topics central to D. H. French's research.

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The professional papers of archaeologist Dr Elizabeth (Lisa) French include correspondence, teaching notes, hand-outs from conferences and seminars, notes from her involvement with Neutron Activiation Analysis, research material for her PhD thesis on Mycenaean figurines and material relating to excavations on which she worked, including Phylakopi, Hagios Stephanos and Tiryns.

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An overview of the entire excavation process of Mycenae under Lord Taylour's direction, encompassing images of archaeologists at work, excavated objects in situ, excavated wall portions and panoramic landscape views. Also included are behind-the-scenes footage of the team entertaining themselves, with parties amidst the ruins, and roasting sheep and dancing in the Lion Tomb.

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3 slides that relate to Lord Taylour's excavations in Mycenae, revealing images of the process of excavation in 1966 (ME) and 1969 (GI). The vast majority of this large file was not extant when the collection was accessioned to the Archives.

Scope and Contents This file collates images from Lord Taylour's travels across Greece over a twelve-year period. Principal locations include Nauplia, Santorini, Athens, and Mycenae. Images of ancient historical sites and ancient Greek art, natural landscapes and geographical features, streets, hotels, views from rooms and balconies, museums, restaurants, town squares, people, churches, monasteries, castles, beaches, a marching band and procession in Mycenae, archaeologists working, mountains, a beach party...

Scope and Contents This album encompasses slides of villages, towns and cities in Italy, Corfu, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, France and England. Included are Volterra, the Perama Caves, Metsovo, Epidaurus, Nafplio, Rojenski and Bachkovo monasteries, Sighișoara, Budapest, Győr, Sopron, Childerley and Hunter's Close. This file incorporates images of landscapes, mountains, caves, street views, medieval Christian art, roads, a performance of 'Bacchae' at Epidaurus, churches, monasteries and baptistries (as...

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This album presents images from Lord Taylour's excavations at Mycenae in 1959, providing photos of the excavation process, including site plans, images of objects found in situ, wall sections, recesses and ramps, and the Mycenaean Citadel. There are also views of landscapes, churches and the Cyclopean Walls at the nearby site of Midea.

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This album holds views of excavation at Mycenae during the summer of 1960, including finds in situ, partially excavated walls, corridors, plaster layers, ramps, site plans, pottery and small finds. There are also images of the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae, and further afield in the Argolid, a night of opera at the Theatre of Epidaurus.

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This file holds slides from locations across Ireland, Scotland and Greece, including Headfort, Carton, Marathon, Mycenae, Tiryns, Athens and Hymettus. Featured in this album are images of Lord Taylour's mother's and father's graves, views of gardens, trees and plants, panoramic landscapes and mountain ranges, family, friends and dogs, perspectives of Headfort House, as well as monumental archaeological remains at Mycenae, Marathon, Tiryns and Athens.

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This album records excavations at Mycenae in the summer of 1962 and includes site plans, artefacts in situ, trenches, plastered walls, pottery and small finds. Also a visit to a performance at Epidaurus.

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N. B. The title by Leake is as inscribed on the cover but at the rear, the notebook has been inverted and a different travelogue recorded by him, beginning at Alexandria, continuing via Baalbek, Damascus, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, then to to Athens.
Includes pencil sketches of Mycenae’s Lion Gate and tholos tomb (Treasury of Atreus).
Cerigo is known today as Kythira.

Scope and Contents In diary format, notes, sketch plans, copies of inscriptions, observations of the environment and architecture (especially churches) whilst travelling through Macedonia. At the begiining, a page in another hand on the Bektashi. Towards the back of the notebook, 5 leaves of notes, dated March 12 1923, at Mycenae, on excavation in the Granary, the Rhyton well, and the South House . At the back, a number of leaves torn out. Bibilographic notes, packing and laundry lists, expenses tally,...

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British excavation at Mycenae during the summer of 1952, under the directorship of Alan J.B. Wace.

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This file encompasses photographs of Greek antiquity, such as the tholos at Marathon and the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae, also featuring photgraphs of 'the Land Rover group' in Venice and at the Temple of Apollo at Bassae the summer previously in 1958. Lord Taylour drove Classics and archaeology students in his Landrover to Greece each summer.

Scope and Contents The label on the front board states that this was J. H. Middleton's notebook in 1856. This would have been when JHM was age ten. However, the notebook is filled with copious notes and illustrated when JHM was an adult, starting from age twenty. The notebook is a mix of notes taken from reading upon the subject of Classical art and archaeology, visiting the British Museum, attending lectures such as one on Ephesus at the Royal Institution in 1875, and in situ measured drawings made while...

Scope and Contents Notebook F: Middleton's notes on classical architecture and topography, mainly in Athens. He provides an index on the flyleaf. In particular his focus is upon the monuments on the acropolis of Athens and its environs: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Erectheum, Parthenon, Propylaea, Askleipion, Stoa of Eumenes, Theatre of Dionysius, Stoa of Attalus, Dipylon, Theseum. Also plans and drawings of the Heraion at Olympia, Tiryns, Mycenae, Corinth, Epidauros, Rome - Museum Papa Guilio...

Scope and Contents Inscribed on the flyleaf, 'J. Henry Middleton, Grand Hotel, Athens' and 'Notebook X'. The notebook consists of Middleton's notes on classical architecture and topography in Athens during the Spring of 1892. In particular his focus is upon the monuments on the Acropolis of Athens: Propylaea, the Parthenon, the Erechtheum, the Asklepeion, the Theatre of Dionysius, the Acropolis walls and stairs, Stoa of Eumenes, and roof tiles. Also the bee hive (tholos) tomb at Menidi...

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Four original pencil and gouache watercolour drawings by Piet de Jong of ceramic vessels from Mycenae Champer Tomb 518, Kalkani South Bank.
AJBW's annotations include a number in blue pencil within a blue circle, tomb number and an - excavation? - number in brackets, a photographic slide reference number prefeced with the letter 'C.' and various other numbers with a now unidentifiable purpose.

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Monochrome glass slides used by Professor Wace for academic lectures, featuring site photographs of Mycenae, key pottery wares from Mycenae and Linear B tablets together with tables demonstrating the Linear B signs.
Also a handlist for the slides, written by AJBW, for 28 slides which is an arrangement for a particular lecture.

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1 scrap pf paper (from an envelope) prnted 'Souvenir of Upper-Egypt'
1 photo annotated on the verso by AJBW, 'Rosetta Gate, Alexandria, end of 19th century'
5 photos of ancient Egyptian reliefs at Karnak, thr largest print annotated on the verso by AJBW, 'Offerings of Thottmes III to Amun, Above the tops of the obelisks, in a row of offerings, by the gold rimngs, is a lion head rhyton, cf gold one from Shaft Grave, Mycneae'.

Scope and Contents The Papers of Lord William Desmond Taylour (1904 - 1989) hold a considerable amount of photographic material - predominantly positive 35mm colour transparencies (slides) - taken during his many travels home and abroad throughout his life. The images feature not just archaeological topics but also a sweeping range of themes and locations, often with a contemporary anthropological perspective. Administrative records date mainly to Taylour's tenure as Director of the British Mycenae...

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The Wace family's own copies of Mycenae excavation reports as published in the Annual of the British School at Athens. Some copies are heavily annotated with corrections and museum numbers for objects featured in the Plates. These volumes were accessioned as part of the Wace archive, as part of Wace's own publciaiton oeuvre, but their contents pertain equally to the Mycenae Archive.