Stratigraphical sections along transects Z306–Z311 and Z313 on the west side of Rabbit Hill and Z305 on the north side of West Island in West Embayment (see Part 1, figure 2 for locations)

1988 ◽  
Vol 54 (S1) ◽  
pp. 9-9
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Duane W. Roller

Mithridates VI the Great began his solidified rule by expanding his kingdom, seemingly with the goal of encircling the Black Sea. He gained possession of the ancient territory of Colchis and then strengthened his predecessors’ control of the Bosporos, on the north side of the sea. He also established a presence on the west side of the sea. The locals on the north side of the sea welcomed the king because they were constantly subject to barbarian pressures. There were also economic benefits to the Pontic kingdom in acquisition of the new territories. Mithridates also established a Pontic presence south and west of his kingdom, in Paphlagonia and Galatia. Yet such aggressive actions by the king were noticed by the Romans, even though the northern Black Sea was not in any region of their direct interest.


1947 ◽  
Vol 41 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 93-94
Author(s):  
T. J. Dunbabin

In his masterly work on Tarentum, P. Wuilleumier (Tarente, 5) identifies the Galaesus with the Citrezze or Giadrezze, a small stream running into the north side of the Mare Piccolo, about two miles from the channel on the west side of the citadel of Tarentum which connects the Mare Piccolo with the sea. This identification, which has been often repeated since Lenormant's time (La Grande-Grèce, i. 19) and spread beyond the narrow bounds of pure scholarship by the writings of George Gissing (By the Ionian Sea, 60 ff.), Norman Douglas (Old Calabria, 80), and David Randall-Madver (Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily, 76), is likely to hold the field by virtue, of Wuilleumier's support. But it is irreconcilable with the only ancient evidence on the position of this river, given in the account of Hannibal's movements in 212 B.C.


1939 ◽  
Vol 76 (8) ◽  
pp. 360-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Shirley

In the type area the Ludlow Rocks generally have been divided into Lower Ludlow Shales, Aymestry Limestone, Dayia Shales and Whitcliffe Flags in upward sequence. The Dayia Shales are characterized by the presence of enormous numbers of Dayia navicula (J. de C. Sowerby). This preponderance of D. navicula in the shales immediately above the Aymestry Limestone has caused a tendency to regard beds in other localities containing this fossil as being on the same stratigraphical horizon in spite of the character of the accompanying fauna. In two recent papers on the Ludlow Rocks of the Welsh Borderland (Straw, 1937, and Earp, 1938) it has been shown that D. navicula ranges through at least 3,000 feet of strata, occurring commonly throughout this great thickness and outlasting more than one change of fauna. Although, in this area, the brachiopod ranges from the zone of Monograptus nilssoni into the Upper Ludlow it has not hitherto been recorded below the Aymestry Limestone in Shropshire. This gap in our knowledge is now filled by the discovery of specimens in Lower Ludlow Shales exposed in a small quarry 40 yards north-east of Stokewood Cottage, which is on the west side of the railway line a little over a mile south of Craven Arms. The quarry shows about 15 feet of nodular shales with thin limestone seams. The commonest fossils are Chonetes laevigata (J. de C. Sowerby), C. minima (J. de C. Sowerby), and Stropheodonta filosa (J. de C. Sowerby) which occur in large numbers on some of the bedding surfaces. Other fossils are Stropheodonta euglypha (Dalman), Delthyris sp., Orthoceras sp., Dalmanites sp., and a plectambonitid. Dayia navicula seems to be confined to a thin layer on the north side of the quarry. Graptolites referable to Monograptus cf. chimaera occur fairly commonly. About 400 yards in a south-easterly direction another small quarry exposes Conchidium Limestone which is about 170 feet stratigraphically above the beds in the first quarry.


1935 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 101-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. W. Phillips

Therfield heath, the expanse of chalk downland on the west side of Royston, has long enjoyed a local fame for the number of barrows and other antiquities which diversify its surface. On the north side it is bounded by the Icknield Way and so is well placed on the corridor between Wessex and East Anglia.By far the most important monument on the Heath is a small long barrow notable as the only example known in East Anglia, its nearest neighbours being the destroyed Dunstable barrow 25 miles to the west, and, further still, the Churn barrow west of the Thames near the Goring Gap.The outward form of the barrow is well-preserved (fig. 1, plan 1), exhibiting the typical club-shaped plan, the broader and higher end to the east. It is 110 feet long, 56 feet wide and 6 feet high at the east end, and 25 feet wide and 2 feet wide at the west. The Ordnance Survey references are Herts 6 inch 4 NE and 25 inch 4, 8. The latitude is 52°2′35″ and the longitude 0° 2′ 40″ w. The height above sea level is 385 feet.It is unfortunate that the late E. B. Nunn of Royston, who opened most of the barrows on the Heath, completely gutted the interior of this long barrow. By the courtesy of Dr W. M. Palmer, M.A., M.D., F.S.A. I am able to publish the following extract from Nunn's manuscript describing his operations here eighty years ago. Fig. 2 is a reproduction of the sketch which illustrates his account.


Author(s):  
Erlin Novita ldje Djami

Papua is a place which is potential to have variety of cultural heritage of megalithic, and it spreads over the Papua. The megalithic tradition has been in this area since the prehistory period, even this it is continuing until today. The influence of this culture in Papua came from the west side through Sulawesi, Maluku and finally reached to Papua. Moreover, from the north side, it came through the Mikronesia area, Melanesia dan then arrived to Papua. The culture of megalithic is believed that it is influnced by the Austronesia people. The forms of megalithic in Papua include the terraces stone, mareuw, stone pole, ainining duka, mortar stone, sharpening stone, stone path, soul path, stone enclosure, megalithic archa, woming stone, throne stone, menhir (standing stone), table stone (dolmen), engraving stone, carving stone, totor, and turtle stone. This discovery of megalithic culture is related with the religious activity dan the other social cuture activities. AbstrakPapua merupakan salah satu wilayah yang memiliki potensi keberadaan tinggalan budaya megalitik yang cukup banyak dan beragam bentuknya, lokasinya tersebar hampir di seluruh wilayah tersebut. Kehadiran tradisi megalitik di wilayah ini, sudah ada sejak zaman prasejarah, bahkan di beberapa tempat di Papua tradisi megalitik masih berlangsung hingga kini. Pengaruh budaya megalitik di wilayah Papua datang melalui dua jalur yaitu jalur barat melalui daerah Sulawesi, Maluku, hingga sampai ke Papua. Sedangkan jalur utara melalui wilayah Mikronesia, Melanesia, dan sampai ke Papua. Keberadaan budaya megalitik di Papua sebagai salah satu bentuk pengaruh dari bangsa Austronesia. Bentuk-bentuk tinggalan megalitik di wilayah Papua berupa bangunan berundak, mareuw, tiang batu, ainining duka, lumpang batu, batu asah, jajaran batu, jalan arwah, batu temugelang, area megalitik, batu peringatan, tahta batu, menhir, dolmen, batu bergores, pahatan batu, totor, dan batu teteruga. Temuantemuan tinggalan budaya tradisi megalitik tersebut berkaitan erat dengan aktivitas religi dan aktivitas sosial budaya lainnya.


1973 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 121-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Mitchell

The purpose of this interim report is to give a description of the major architectural features of the site, the evidence for their dating, and a brief account of the artifactual remains from them. This work is necessarily incomplete: only the major excavated levels are distinguished and illustrated; a detailed division of the Medieval levels into subsidiary phases has not been attempted here; and before a complete and definitive account of the artifactual remains, especially the pottery, can be given, further work must be done on the material. This may throw new light on the problems of dating.Fig. 1 shows the area excavated, with the exception of the step trenches dug down the north side of the mound, which are of no direct relevance to the architecture of the later periods considered here, and the trenches on the west side of the mound, dug ad hoc to investigate the later Medieval structures. These are shown in Figs. 11 and 12. The continuous thin lines in Fig. 1 indicate the internal sections which were drawn from the topsoil to the point where excavation was halted but which were later removed.


1907 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 537-538
Author(s):  
T. C. Cantrill

The fossils which Mr. V. M. Turnbull has collected from supposed Slade Beds on the “roadside near St. Martin's Cemetery, Haverfordwest,” were obtained along the north side of a road leading westward from St. Martin'ls Cemetery to Portfield House, on the west aide of the town. About half-way between the Cemetery and Port-field House the road is crossed by a by-road known as Jury Lane; one of the fossiliferous localities lies 110 yards east of Jury Lane crossing, another is 100 to 150 yards west of it. The area in question is contained in the Old Series one-inch Geological Survey map, Sheet 40, the New Series one-inch map, Sheet 228, and in the six-inch map, Pembrokeshire, Sheet 27 N.E.


1953 ◽  
Vol 8 (22) ◽  
pp. 444-457
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  

Charles Edward Inglis was the second surviving son of Dr Alexander Inglis, M.D., M.R.C.S.E., of Auchindinny and Redhall, and of his first wife, Florence, the second daughter of John Frederick Feeney, proprietor of the Birmingham Daily Post, whose family founded the Feeney Art Gallery in that city. The Inglis family of Auchindinny appear first as tenants and afterwards owners of the farm of Langbyres, which adjoins the west side of Murdostoun in the parish of Shotts, Lanarkshire. The first mention of them in connexion with the place is found in the Lord High Treasurer’s accounts for 1543 when John Inglis in Langbyres and James Kneland in Swyntre had to pay £13 6s. 8d. to redeem their movable goods, which had been escheated as a penalty for their absence from the army, mustered by James V to invade England, which was routed at Solway Moss. The estate of Auchindinny, about 730 acres, was purchased in 1702 by one John Inglis, a Writer to the Signet, who had succeeded to Langbyres in 1685. Auchindinny lies about eight miles south of Edinburgh, on the right bank of the North Esk and at the south end of the parish of Lasswade. The house, completed in 1707, is a severe substantial sandstone building. John Inglis had eleven children. One of his grand-daughters, Barbara, co-heiress of Archibald, Laird of Auchindinny, married in 1777 her cousin, Captain, afterwards Admiral, John Inglis, R.N., of Redhall, whose father had left Scotland and settled in Philadelphia as a merchant about 1736. Captain Inglis commanded H.M.S. Belliqueux at the battle of Camperdown. The ship took a conspicuous share in the fighting, there being a hundred and three casualties out of a complement of four hundred and ninety-one, and quite redeemed the character which she had lost in the Mutiny at the Nore a few months earlier. It is said that the Captain was puzzled in the battle by his Admiral’s frequent signals and at last threw his signal book on deck exclaiming, ‘Damn the signals; up wi’ the hellem and gang into the middle o’ it’. He thus anticipated Nelson’s celebrated memorandum that ‘when a captain should be at a loss he cannot do very wrong if he lay his ship alongside of the enemy’.


1913 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 205-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Horwood

Although the Rhætic beds are not exposed continuously along the eastern boundary of the Keuper outcrop, they have been proved at many points from the River Trent in the north on the Nottinghamshire border to Glen Parva in the south. South of this point there is so much drift, and borings within the Liassic outcrop have been so isolated or shallow, that there is a gap in our knowledge of the intervening ground between the last point and the Rugby district. The Countesthorpe boring, carried to a depth of over 600 feet, encountered Upper Keuper beneath the Drift, with no intervening Rhætics. Commencing in the north in the Gotham district the two outliers are capped above the Red Marl and Tea-green Marl with Rhætic beds, and Lower Lias Limestone (Ps. planorbe zone) above. At Ash Spinney at the south end of the southern outlier, and at the east end of Crownend Wood, Black Shales with Avicula contorta crop out; and on the west side septaria are seen. On the north-west side of the northern outlier at Cottager's Hill Protocardium phillipianum has been found in a well-section near the lane. Rhætic shales are seen in the shafts driven for gypsum works about Gotham.


1973 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 93-95
Author(s):  
David French
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  

This site has not been tested by excavation. Such finds as are known were collected from the surface of the mound in the autumn of 1971. No attempt was made to collect systematically: the intention was simply to provide sherd material in order to date the site. The site was located during pre-excavation surveys by Whallon and Kantmann (map, METU 1968 Report: site N 52/3).The mound of Kurupınar is situated on the west side of the upland valley, c. 2 km. west of the şose to Çemişgezek, along a track leading to Engüzek; a poor spring is found near the north foot of the site. Engüzek lies c. 2·5 km. away to the southwest.


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