Air Reconnaissance in Britain, 1965–68

1969 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 104-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. St Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Aerial Photography ◽  
Ordnance Survey ◽  
The North ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
New Information ◽  
Form Part ◽  
The University ◽  
The Military ◽  
Favourable Development

The results of the air reconnaissance here summarized continue from earlier surveys already described in this Journal. The weather was not particularly favourable for archaeological reconnaissance during any of these four summers, while the period May to October 1968 was, over much of England, one of the wettest of this century. In Scotland, however, the summer of 1968 was comparatively dry with correspondingly favourable development of crop marks.Most of the new information has been gained in the military districts of Wales and the north. Roman military remains tend to be standardized and to form part of a system. Thus both temporary and permanent works may often be identified from a minimum of evidence without the necessity of the whole site being visible, while the geographical distribution, so far as it is known, often suggests where further reconnaissance may profitably be made. Descriptions of military sites and their full significance in the system to which they belong, call for continual reference to local geography, so that the text is best considered in conjunction with appropriate maps such as the 1 inch to a mile series of the Ordnance Survey. Nearly all the features described have been examined on the ground: except when noted otherwise, no remains are ordinarily to be seen on the surface. The records and photographs on which this account is based are housed in the offices of the Committee for Aerial Photography of the University of Cambridge.

Air Reconnaissance in Britain, 1961–64

1965 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 74-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. St. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Aerial Photography ◽  
Cereal Crops ◽  
Differential Growth ◽  
Southern England ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Dry Spell ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University ◽  
The Military

Systematic air reconnaissance of Romano-British sites has continued during the last few years, with results that are summarized in this paper which supplements accounts of earlier surveys already published in this Journal. In both the summers of 1963 and 1964 a prolonged dry spell affected much of eastern Scotland, but this region apart, the weather was not particularly favourable for the development of crop marks in the period under review: the dry spell in central and southern England in 1964 came too late to affect the cereal crops, but was the cause of remarkable differential growth in certain roots, particularly beet.The greatest gain in information is in the military zone of north Britain, where photography repeated year by year never fails to yield discoveries: in the civil districts of the Province, Romano-British settlements and their agriculture are the most rewarding subjects to study. Nearly every feature here described has been examined on the ground, for only so can an accurate impression be gained of a site in relation to its surroundings: except where noted otherwise, no remains are ordinarily visible on the surface. The records and photographs on which this account is based are housed in the offices of the Committee for Aerial Photography of the University of Cambridge.

XLI. Observations upon some Celtic Remains, lately discovered by the Public Road leading from London to Cambridge, near to the Village of Sawston, distant seven miles from the University, by Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D. Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge. Communicated by the Rev. Thomas Kerrich, M.A. F.S.A.

Archaeologia ◽  
1817 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 340-343
Author(s):  
Edward Daniel Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
The Public ◽  
The North ◽  
Public Road ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Temple

It is not attaching too high a degree of importance to the study of Celtic antiquities, to maintain, that, owing to the attention now paid to it in this country, a light begins to break in upon that part of ancient history, which, beyond every other, seemed to present a forlorn investigation. All that relates to the aboriginal inhabitants of the north of Europe, would be involved in darkness but for the enquiries now instituted respecting Celtic sepulchres. From the information already received, concerning these sepulchres, it may be assumed, as a fact almost capable of actual demonstration, that the mounds, or barrows, common to all Great Britain, and to the neighbouring continent, together with all the tumuli fabled by Grecian and by Roman historians as the tombs of Giants, are so many several vestiges of that mighty family of Titan-Celts who gradually possessed all the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, and who extended their colonies over all the countries where Cyclopéan structures may be recognized; whether in the walls of Crotona, or the temple at Stonehénge; in the Cromlechs of Wales, or the trilithal monuments of Cimbrica Chersonesus; in Greece, or in Asia-Minor; in Syria, or in Egypt. It is with respect to Egypt alone, that an exception might perhaps be required; but history, while it deduces the origin of the worship of Minerva, at Sais, from the Phrygians, also relates of this people, that they were the oldest of mankind. The Cyclopéan architecture of Egypt may therefore be referred originally to the same source; but, as in making the following Observations brevity must be a principal object, it will be necessary to divest them of every thing that may seem like a Dissertation; and confine the statement, here offered, to the simple narrative of those facts, which have led to its introduction.

James Thomas Wilson, 1861 - 1945

1949 ◽  
Vol 6 (18) ◽  
pp. 643-660
Keyword(s):  
Entrance Examination ◽  
Postgraduate Study ◽  
The North ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Study And Teaching ◽  
Intellectual Capacity ◽  
High Esteem ◽  
Thomas Wilson ◽  
The University ◽  
Second Period

Professor J. T. Wilson, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Sydney, 1890 to 1920 and in the University of Cambridge, 1920 to 1934, died on 2 September 1945, at his house in Cambridge, after a short illness, at the age of eighty-four. Through his death, anatomical science in this country has lost one of its foremost exponents and leaders, a great and inspiring teacher and a man of striking personality and outstanding intellectual capacity. The Anatomical Society is the poorer by the loss of its oldest surviving member, who, though nurtured in the old school, was ever in the vanguard of progress towards the newer conceptions which dominate the anatomy of to-day, and his colleagues and old pupils here and in Australia mourn the passing of a great and good man, who had won their high esteem and affectionate regard, for he had a great gift for friendship and was one of the most generous and helpful of men. He himself, speaking in Cambridge in 1941, described his life-span as falling naturally into three periods. I quote his own words : ‘The first of twentysix years includes childhood, adolescence, undergraduate training and postgraduate study and teaching, in “the grey metropolis of the North’’ ever dear to my memory. The second period of over thirty-three years was spent in the University of Sydney where for a generation I occupied the Chair of Anatomy. The third period embraces the twenty-one years of my life here in Cambridge. In each of these periods, I have had the high privilege of sharing in the teaching and other activities of academic life.’ James Thomas Wilson, an only son, was born on 14 April 1861, at Moniaive, a small village in Dumfriesshire, where his father, Thomas Wilson, was schoolmaster and a learned and cultured man. From him he received his early education as well as his preparation for the entrance examination to the University.

The Cave of Ali Tappeh and the Epi-Palaeolithic in N.E. Iran

1969 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 385-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. M. McBurney ◽  
Rosemary Payne
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
The North ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Geological Past ◽  
Iranian Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Raised Beaches

In the 1964 Proceedings a preliminary report was published of an initial sounding at this site, discovered and named (after a nearby village) in 1962. The main excavation, in the summer of 1964, was undertaken with the kind permission and co-operation of the Iranian Government and authorities, and with the financial assistance of grants from the British Academy and the Crowther Beynon Fund of the University of Cambridge. Subsequent laboratory analysis has been carried out mainly in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Cambridge.Since the geographical situation of the site forms an essential factor in its interpretation, the main features may be repeated here for convenience. The cave is eroded in the base of an escarpment which follows the foot of the Elburz range where it bounds the coastal plain along the southern shores of the present Caspian. The mountains rise abruptly in an impressive series of ridges to over 10,000 ft; the plain extends to the north to the modern sea-shore now some 8 miles away from the site and rapidly retreating. It is known however that in the recent geological past this situation has varied greatly. At times the sea lapped the base of the hills leaving traces in the form of escarpments and raised beaches, while at others it retreated scores of miles to the north and may even have disappeared altogether.

The Institutional Façade: Architectural Recording at the Old Schools, University of Cambridge

1999 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 213-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Evans ◽  
Joshua Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
The North ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University

The results of architectural recording within the North Range of the University's Old Schools are described. Argued to have stood independently as a hall in the later fourteenth century, the progressive development of the Schools' quadrangle, and extensive alterations to it – culminating in Wright's neo-classical facade of 1754–58 – reflects upon the historical development of academic architecture. The prestigious display of the complex in the mid eighteenth century, facilitated through the mass levelling of domestic properties, equally tells of the institutional ‘realization’ of the University.

Air Reconnaissance in Roman Britain, 1973–76

1977 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 125-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. St Joseph
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Aerial Photography ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
National Monuments ◽  
The University

Air reconnaissance over the United Kingdom has been continued during the last four years, a period which has seen a considerable extension of such work, and one notable for exceptionally dry summers. Thus, both the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments for England, through the Air Photographs Unit of the National Monuments Record, and the Royal Commission for Scotland have undertaken extensive surveys, while the growth of local flying has meant that many areas of the country have been reconnoitred more intensively than has hitherto been possible. The account that follows relates almost entirely to the work sponsored by the Committee for Aerial Photography of the University of Cambridge, though information is, indeed, often interchanged with others making similar surveys. The fullest knowledge of any given site comes from study of all available records. The first clue may be obtained by one observer, later reconnaissance by others may amplify the record, perhaps making plain what was previously only suspected. Nevertheless, had it not been for knowledge of the first, perhaps incomplete, observation, subsequent reconnaissance might never have been undertaken. This is a pursuit in which each participant may owe much to others: the cumulative results reflect the activities of many.

Willard Wentzel's account of the Mackenzie River

Polar Record ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (173) ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beau Riffenburgh ◽  
Clive Holland ◽  
Richard Davis
Keyword(s):  
Native Peoples ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University ◽  
Mackenzie River

AbstractFollowing his return from participating in John Franklin's first overland expedition (1819–1822), Willard Wentzel, a clerk for the North West Company, produced a map of the Mackenzie River and a brief account of its geography, native peoples, and history and significance as it related to the North West Company. This map and the account, which is one of the few early descriptions of the Mackenzie River area, are held in the Royal Commonwealth Society Papers at the University of Cambridge. They have not previously been published.

Air Reconnaissance in Britain, 1969–72

1973 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 214-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. St Joseph
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Military ◽  
Eastern Half

Air reconnaissance has been continued over the United Kingdom during the last four years, and this summary of results follows the same pattern as the accounts of earlier surveys already described in this Journal. The years 1969 and 1970 saw the most favourable weather for archaeological reconnaissance, particularly in the eastern half of Britain. Hopes of a good year for crop marks in 1971 vanished when the month of June turned out to be almost the wettest of this century, and then in 1972, cold, damp weather persisting from the end of May through June did not favour the development of crop marks.Once again most of the new information has come from the military districts of Wales and the north. Understanding of military sites, both in their immediate setting and their wider significance in relation to the system to which they belong, requires some appreciation of local geography.

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