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archaeo.log – Essays
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Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of two of the following archaeological dating techniques: Radiocarbon dating; Dendrochronology; Thermoluminescence; Amino-Acid Racemization; Archaeomagnetic dating. The analysis of each technique is focussed on the following factors:. Applicability: what range of subjects and materials can the technique address? Accuracy: what resemblance does the achieved determination bear to the actual calendar date of the subject? In reali...
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archaeo.log – alignments
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Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust. Whenever I read anything about how a monument is aligned towards the rising sun on the Winter Solstice, or some other such mystic arrangement, I do find myself wondering how that was achieved. Unless there’s a secret stash of prehistoric timepieces that the archaeologists haven’t interpreted the bejesus out of yet, I’m not sure how one’s aware of how short the day is. I’m thinking if any kind of observations resulted in these alignments, stars other than ou...
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archaeo.log – Anglo-Saxon
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Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust. Grid Reference: ST 1483072245. From the Royal Commission’s earthwork plan (reproduced in Alcock 1963), there are no visible defences to the North of the side, excepting the natural shape of the hill, but the South of the site has a series of four earth ramparts, with the Northernmost one forming a horseshoe shape curving around. Chronology and Current Interpretation. There was evidence for industry in the form of stone-lined hearths and metalworking tools and cru...
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archaeo.log – Techniques
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Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust. While we mostly used triangulation to delineate interesting rocks on our drawing, we found that the results worsened as we approached the edge of the trench, as the inaccuracies of the method became a high percentage of the measurement taken. Therefore, for the rocks around the centre of the trench, we decided to use offsetting and ‘swinging the tape’ in order to record these rocks. Written on August 8th, 2012 , Diploma Year One. Taking care to keep the tapes hor...
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archaeo.log – Certificate Year Two
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Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust. Down Farm, Sixpenny Handley, Cranborne Chase. Weather: Initially chilly but bright, warm sunshine by the afternoon, wind negligible. Figure 1: Location of Wyke Down Henge and the Shaft in relation to other sites on Down Farm. After Green and Michael J Allen 1997 Figure 1. Fir Tree Field ‘Shaft’. Grid Reference: SU 0016 1467 (NMR SU 01 SW 163). When excavated, a sequence of layers was discovered (as shown in Figure 4): the first layer revealed Beaker pottery and f...
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archaeo.log – Diploma Year One
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Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust. While we mostly used triangulation to delineate interesting rocks on our drawing, we found that the results worsened as we approached the edge of the trench, as the inaccuracies of the method became a high percentage of the measurement taken. Therefore, for the rocks around the centre of the trench, we decided to use offsetting and ‘swinging the tape’ in order to record these rocks. Written on August 8th, 2012 , Diploma Year One. Taking care to keep the tapes hor...
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archaeo.log – Excavation Notebook
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Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust. While we mostly used triangulation to delineate interesting rocks on our drawing, we found that the results worsened as we approached the edge of the trench, as the inaccuracies of the method became a high percentage of the measurement taken. Therefore, for the rocks around the centre of the trench, we decided to use offsetting and ‘swinging the tape’ in order to record these rocks. Written on August 8th, 2012 , Diploma Year One. Taking care to keep the tapes hor...
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archaeo.log – bristol
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Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust. Whistle-stop tour of Bristol. Today’s mission was to discover a sample of the urban archaeology of Bristol. Location: ST 583 726. The tour began outside the cathedral, originally founded as an Augustinian Abbey by Robert Fitzhardinge in 1140. This was found under the Norman chapterhouse in 1831 and is said to represent the harrowing of hell. It may have been a gravemarker. It is dated to the first half of the 11th Century (from information on Pastscape). Selectio...
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archaeo.log – Own Visits
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Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust. Burghclere Beacon, Hampshire. Visit Date: 16th June 2012. Weather: Today was extremely windy, with a shower of rain. This made it quite hard to determine the shape of the land surface as the long grasses were being blown about, and the rain prohibited many of the photographs I would otherwise have taken as well as limiting visibility. To the west of the path is a strange square thing, shown on the Ordnance Survey map as a disused pit. I have not yet discovere...
