Excavation Records
The Archive is the principal repository for all Excavation Records associated with projects of the British School at Athens. The entire collection is in the process of being catalogued.
The Excavations Records have been arranged alphabetically. The list below provides a guide to the records of sites now housed in the Archive. The names of the sites are listed as they were recorded by the excavators and so have variances. Only collections that are digitized can be viewed on this page. For a more extensive list of sites please see the archive page: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/about-us/archive/collections/excavation-records/
NOTE: Although the British School at Athens inherited the excavations of Knossos from Sir Arthur Evans, the Archive of the School do not hold material from his excavations EXCEPT six pottery notebooks of Duncan Mackenzie dated 1900-1904. For the Evans records and any material in the volumes from the Palace of Minos, please contact the Ashmolean Museum.
Kynosarges Excavation Records
In early 1896 Cecil Smith, Director of the British School at Athens, was looking for a site to excavate in Athens for two reasons: for the BSA to contribute to the knowledge of Athenian topography and, more so perhaps, to use the opportunity as a training ground for students who would then move on to the BSA excavations being planned on the island of Melos.
Thessaly Excavation Records
The British School at Athens holds excavation records from seven excavations conducted in Thessaly and the Spercheus Valley (near Lamia) excavated by A.J.B. Wace, J.P. Droop and M.S. Thompson from 1907 to 1912. Five were prehistoric "magoula" sites that shed light on the chronology of the region's 'early civilisation'.