George
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Sep 25
Guide – Visible Remains
Visible Remains “The identity of an earthwork can be determined to a certain extent by the shape of the field marking that is left. If it is square or rectangular with rounded comers, it is highly likely that the constructors were from the Roman army. If it is an irregular quadrilateral with a gateway on …
Sep 25
Guide – Glossary
Glossary of prehistoric features This section was compiled with the help of the English Heritage NMR record. It currently includes descriptions for those Military, Domestic and Agricultural features that would have been in existence up to the Roman Period in Britain. Primary Name Alternate Name(s) Description ALTAR An elevated table or podium on which to …
Sep 25
Guide – Desktop Survey
A Guide to DIY archaeology The Desktop Search Virtually all archaeological investigations begin with a desktop search of one form or another, the term desktop search simply means the sort of research you can do from a desk. Assuming that you have read the first section of this guide, you will already know about the …
Sep 25
Guide – LOS Analysis
The purpose of using line of site analysis is to better understand the sites relationships with other locations, to identify possible trade and communications routes, and the location of other possible sites of interest, as well as providing an element of “evidence by association”.
Sep 25
Guide – Getting Started
How to research an ancient site Introduction The first step in researching any site, is to understand what is already known about it, many sites have had previous archaeological research, often there are air photographs or even excavation reports. Clearly it makes sense to understand as much as possible about a site before going on …
Sep 25
Guide – Man’s impact on the landscape
Man’s impact on the landscape For thousands of years men and women have fashioned the landscape according to their needs. Through the processes of farming, industrial development and related activities the successive occupying people have left their own unique mark. Initially, the geology of an area, the locally available resources such as water, drainage, defensibility, …
Sep 24
Roman Military Sites in Scotland
English names, Roman names where known, four figure map reference, site type, size, and history, including garrisons and associated military units.
Sep 24
Roman Military sites in Northern England
Roman Military sites in Northern England English names, Roman names where known, four figure map reference, site type, size, and history, including garrisons and associated military units. Where there is uncertainty over identification of an element a ? is used after the element: a ? before a Roman name means that the form of the …
Sep 24
Roman Military Sites in Wales
English names, Roman names where known, four figure map reference, site type, size, and history, including garrisons and associated military units.
Sep 24
Roman Military sites in Central Britain
English names, Roman names where known, four figure map reference, site type, size, and history, including garrisons and associated military units.
PAS North Yorkshire
- NLM-3644D0 BUTTON POST MEDIEVAL 5 February 2025Silver probable button or cufflink fragment. Oval cast concavo-convex front from an object of probably composite construction with a small central apical boss which serves as the centre of a hexagonal floret. The floret is set between two doubled incised lines passing diagonally across the domed surface, with singly incised lines completing the enclosure of […]
- NLM-367AD7 BROOCH POST MEDIEVAL 5 February 2025Copper alloy brooch. An item of costume jewellery made by the bending of a hollow cylinder of round section into a simple loop whose overlapping ends are presumably brazed to each other; the open and obliquely angled ends of the tube are slightly expanded or flared and blind, being filled with concave insets. The form […]
- NLM-3615C9 DEBITAGE PALAEOLITHIC 5 February 2025Flint possible debitage. An irregular rounded nodule, heavily worn by natural agencies such as rolling by water and stained an orange-tan tint by exposure to or incorporation within ferruginous gravels. This was found near NLM-670938 though is less convincing as an artefact. Three or four large flakes may have been removed by hard-hammer working from […]
- NLM-35E1DF UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT UNKNOWN 5 February 2025Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. A tiny cast flat-sided billet of slightly wedge-shaped profile with one rounded and nicked end and with intermittently grooved or notched sides. Smoothed and rounded overall, as if by wear – perhaps a hint that this had served as part of a dress accessory and has been polished by its […]
- NLM-35C05B COIN ROMAN 5 February 2025Copper alloy coin fragment. Radiate or nummus indeterminate, probably of medium to large module, later Roman issue of 260-330, probably a regular issue.Obverse description: youthful bust right, clean-shaven.Obverse inscription: (----)OAGReverse description: male figure nude save for cloaked shoulders left, with right arm extended and appearing to hold the lead of a small dog – the […]
PAS West Yorkshire
- YORYM-8E1BC7 BUCKLE MEDIEVAL 28 January 2025A complete copper-alloy buckle of medieval date, c.AD 1250 -1500. Meols Type 2.The buckle is a single looped D-shape with a narrowed and recessed strap bar. A grooved pin rest is present on the upper surface of the outside edge of the loop. A circular sectioned pin is fitted around the bar by an open loop. A rectangular […]
- YORYM-8E4F89 BUCKLE MEDIEVAL 28 January 2025A complete copper-alloy buckle of medieval date, c.AD 1250-1500. Meols Type 1.The buckle is a single looped D-shape with a narrowed strap bar. The upper surface of the frame has been decorated with four groups of four parallel incised grooves. A rectangular sectioned pin is fitted around the bar by an open loop. A rectangular plate is looped […]
PAS South Yorkshire
- YORYM-8FC319 HARNESS PENDANT MEDIEVAL 28 January 2025An incomplete copper-alloy gilded zoomorphic harness pendant of medieval date, AD 1200 - 1400.The pendant comprises a D-shaped plate in the form of a forward-facing animal's head, probably a stag, with integral attachment loop. The upper surface is moulded with features including pellet eyes, an elongated raised muzzle, and rounded snout. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The attachment […]
- NMGW-C31C53 CHARIOT FITTING IRON AGE 24 January 2025Addendum to an Iron Age sacred lake assemblage: a Late Iron Age bridle-bit and terret (50 BC - AD 75)1. Two-link bridle-bit, Polden Hill Subtype, bronze, complete Dimensions: maximum length 238.0mm; external rein-ring diameters (1)73.8-74.0mm & (2) 73.5-74.7mm; internal rein-ring diameters (1) 55.6mm & (2) 56.3mm; thickness rein rings – side to side (1) 8.3-9.0mm & […]
