II.—The Aqueduct in the Grounds of the British Embassy in Rome

Archaeologia ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 81-104
Author(s):  
P. K. Baillie Reynolds ◽  
T. A. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
British Embassy ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
Ancient Monument

The garden of the British Embassy in Rome is traversed by a stretch of some 400 yards of a Roman aqueduct of the first century A.D. This being an Ancient Monument on British territory, its consolidation and repair were considered in 1957 by the then Minister of Works, now Lord Molson, to be a proper task for the Ancient Monuments division of that ministry, just as the care and maintenance o the embassy itself is the task of another division of the same ministry.

The Excavations at Cairnpapple Hill, West Lothian 1947–8

Antiquity ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 23 (89) ◽  
pp. 32-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Piggott
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Burial Site ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Main Road ◽  
The North ◽  
Site Field ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
Ancient Monument ◽  
The Hill

In ANTIQUITY 1948, p. 35, a brief account was given of the first season’s work on a Bronze Age sanctuary and burial site on Cairnpapple Hill, near Torphichen in West Lothian. With the co-operation of the Ancient Monuments Department of the Ministry of Works, excavations were continued in the summer of 1948. The site was completely stripped, and revealed a complex series of structures indicated by the sockets of once-standing stones or by stones still extant. It will be laid out and conserved by the Department as an Ancient Monument under guardianship. The following account of the main results of the 1947–8 excavations is intended as a preliminary to the full excavation report, which will appear in due course in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, who financed the first season’s work.Cairnpapple Hill, the summit of which is within the 1000 feet contour, is a part of the Bathgate Hills, which form a compact block of high land between the main road to Stirling on the north and from Glasgow to Edinburgh on the south. On the summit, the site before excavation was chiefly distinguished by the grass-grown cairn which gives its name to the hill, but most maps and the earlier antiquarian literature indicated a ‘fort’ on the same site. Field-work in 1946 had shown that the cairn stood eccentrically within a low roughly circular earthwork (the ‘fort’) which on surface showing was almost certainly a member of the ‘Henge Monument’ class of structure. The site was confused by an octagonal turf dyke which had been made round the cairn in the late 18th or early 19th century to enclose a plantation of trees, now vanished.

Consecration and Materiality

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-158
Author(s):  
Fiona R. Greenland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Formation Mechanisms ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
Central Park ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
Ancient Monument ◽  
The Town

This article focuses on a case of failed consecration: the Egyptian obelisk in New York’s Central Park, commonly known as Cleopatra’s Needle. The obelisk arrived in New York from Alexandria in 1880, with great fanfare. For a brief period, it was the talk of the town: a tourist curiosity and star of advertising campaigns for consumer goods. After an initial surge in public visibility, the monument’s prominence faded. Today, the obelisk is not on the list of New York’s top cultural attractions, and no longer features in media campaigns or political rallies. I ask why the obelisk’s initial popularity failed to crystallize into an enduring condition of consecration. To answer this question, I use archival data to chart the obelisk’s transfer of ownership and planned move, through its Central Park début and subsequent decline in cultural salience. The obelisk met key criteria associated with successful cases of retrospective consecration. What weakened the obelisk’s career were lack of consecrating institutions and inherently unstable material conditions. These mechanisms are symbiotically related: because no institution took responsibility for conserving and protecting the obelisk, its granite face rapidly deteriorated and frustrated attempts to attract potential consecrating institutions. The article makes a twofold contribution to the literature on retrospective consecration. First, by discussing a failed case, it highlights the linked efficacy of consecration formation mechanisms. Second, in focusing on an ancient monument, it demonstrates the role played by materials and the specific measures of consecration that obtain in the broader sphere of ancient monuments.

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's Reactions to the Pantheon:

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-291
Author(s):  
Francesco Benelli
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Deep Knowledge ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
Professional Confidence ◽  
Ancient Monument

In Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's Reactions to the Pantheon: An Early Modern Case of Operative Criticism, Francesco Benelli looks at three annotated drawings by Antonio in which he analyzed features of the Roman Pantheon. The architect's analysis of this ancient monument drew on both his close, methodical, and pragmatic investigations of the building and his deep knowledge of Vitruvian theory. Together, the drawings and text represent an unprecedented critique of a building then almost universally admired. Yet Antonio's dependence on Vitruvius, who belonged to a different period of Roman history than did the Pantheon, led to certain discrepancies within his conclusions. Nonetheless, Antonio's study marks a new level of professional confidence, objectivity, and critical detachment among Renaissance architects, as ancient monuments were no longer seen as perfect and unquestionable, but as sources to be praised, criticized, utilized, adapted, or ignored according to the specific needs of modern architectural practice.

scholarly journals The cup and ring marked stone at Newbigging Farm, Perth & Kinross District, Tayside Region

1983 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 559-561
Author(s):  
Gordon J Barclay ◽  
M Brooks ◽  
James Rideout
Keyword(s):  
Erect Position ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
Ancient Monument

In 1981 it was noticed that the Newbigging (or Gladsfield) stone, a scheduled ancient monument, had slipped from its erect position to an angle of about 45 degrees from vertical. A small excavation was carried out by the Central Excavation Unit of SDD (Ancient Monuments) to establish whether the stone should be re-erected or moved to the side of the field in which it stood, this being the wish of the farmer.

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