Inscriptions from rough Cilicia east of the Calycadnus

1969 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 139-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodora S. Mackay ◽  
Pierre A. Mackay
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
Rock Wall ◽  
Rock Face ◽  
The Road ◽  
River Bed ◽  
Tributary Stream ◽  
British Institute ◽  
Small Tributary ◽  
Stream Bed

The following random lot of inscriptions was noted during three brief trips into the territory around Olba-Diocaesareia, in the spring of 1966, while we were guests at the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. These trips were part of a year of archaeological wandering made possible by the grant of the Olivia James Travelling Fellowship, administered by the Archaeological Institute of America.1. Seleuceia-Korykos: This inscription was discovered by the able and energetic curator of antiquities at Silifke, Mr. Mehmet Belen, to whose great kindness we owe our knowledge of it. It is cut on a rock face above some faint traces of an ancient road from Korasion to Korykos, which runs parallel to the modern coast road at this point. About 19 km. east of Silifke, the modern road turns north away from the shore, and runs inland along the west side of a seasonal watercourse called Kuru Dere, “dry river bed”. Just north of the gravel bank at the mouth of Kuru Dere, at a point where the rock wall cuts back from the west side of the road to form a very small tributary stream bed, there are faint traces of rock cut steps some 5 metres above the road. Above these, on the south side of the tributary stream bed, a roughly dressed rectangular panel, 0·80 × 0·45 m., has been cut into the rock.

A Romano-British Interment, with Bucket and Sceptres, from Brough, East Yorkshire

1938 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Corder ◽  
I. A. Richmond
Keyword(s):  
Present Note ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Chief Interest ◽  
Roman Age ◽  
The Way

The Roman Ermine Street, having crossed the Humber on the way to York from Lincoln, leaves Brough Haven on its west side, and the little town of Petuaria to the east. For the first half-mile northwards from the Haven its course is not certainly known: then, followed by the modern road, it runs northwards through South Cave towards Market Weighton. In the area thus traversed by the Roman road burials of the Roman age have already been noted in sufficient quantity to suggest an extensive cemetery. The interment which is the subject of the present note was found on 10th October 1936, when men laying pipes at right angles to the modern road, in the carriage-drive of Mr. J. G. Southam, having cut through some 4 ft. of blown sand, came upon a mass of mixed Roman pottery, dating from the late first to the fourth century A.D. Bones of pig, dog, sheep, and ox were also represented. Presently, at a depth of about 5 ft., something attracted closer attention. A layer of thin limestone slabs was found, covering two human skeletons, one lying a few feet from the west margin of the modern road, the other parallel with the road and some 8 ft. from its edge. The objects described below were found with the second skeleton, and the first to be discovered was submitted by Mr. Southam to Mr. T. Sheppard, F.S.A.Scot., Director of the Hull Museums, who visited the site with his staff. All that can be recorded of the circumstances of the discovery is contained in the observations then made, under difficult conditions. ‘Slabs of hard limestone’, it was reported, ‘taken from a local quarry of millepore oolite and forming the original Roman road, were distinctly visible beneath the present roadway—one of the few points where the precise site of the old road has been located. On the side of this… a burial-place has been constructed. What it was like originally it is difficult to say, beyond that a layer of thin … slabs of limestone occurred over the skeletons. This had probably been kept in place or supported by some structure of wood, as several large iron nails, some bent at right angles, were among the bones.’ If this were all that could be said about the burials, they would hardly merit a place in these pages. The chief interest of the record would be its apparent identification of the exact course of the Roman road at a point where this had hitherto been uncertain. Three objects associated with the second skeleton are, however, of exceptional interest.

Durrington Walls

Antiquity ◽  
1929 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. G. S. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Average Diameter ◽  
Great Circle ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
The Road ◽  
Nearest Point ◽  
Pass Through

Probably not one in ten thousand of those who pass through the middle of Durrington Walls is aware of its existence. Though plainly visible when once pointed out, the earthen ramparts have been so greatly altered by ploughing as to be hardly recognizable, and the reconstruction of their orginal form is a very pretty exercise in field-archaeologyThe walls consists of a round enclosure, cut into two unequal parts by the road from Amesbury to Netheravon (Wilts), about a mile and a half north of Amesbury, on the west bank of the Avon. Woodhenge is only eighty yards to the south, close to and on the west side of the same road. The earthwork differs fundamentally from the ordinary defensive ‘camp’, for it encloses, not a hill-top but a coombe or hollow, and it has its ditch inside, not outside, the rampart. In this latter respect it resembles the circles at Avebury and Marden in Wilts, Knowlton in Dorset, Thornborough in Yorkshire, and Arbour Low in Derbyshire; though there are points of difference. In size, Durrington Walls compares closely with Avebury, whose great earthen circle is slightly smaller in diameter; rom east to west the internal area of the Walls is 1300feet across, and from north to south about 1160 feet. (The average diameter at Avebury is 1130 feet). Both too are within easy reach of a stream, the Avon being IOO yards from the eastern entrance of the Walls, and the Kennet 330 yards from the nearest point of the great circle at Avebury. The enclosure at Marden actually touches the banks of the Avon at a point higher up in its course.

On a Quartz-porphyry from the Lake District

1924 ◽  
Vol 61 (11) ◽  
pp. 513-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Melmore
Keyword(s):  
Igneous Rock ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lake District ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Quartz Porphyry ◽  
West Side ◽  
South Side ◽  
The Road

A Small quarry was opened about three years ago at Thwaite Head, which lies between the southern ends of Coniston Lake and Windermere. It is on the west side of the road between that hamlet and Hawkshead, and exposes a nearly vertical sill, 40 feet wide, running E.N.E.-W.S.W. in the Bannisdale slates. On the south side a series of joint-planes running parallel to the bedding of the slates and curving inwards at the top have split the igneous rock into flags, while in the body of the rock the jointing is much coarser, so that it is quarried in large blocks. Both the igneous rock and the slates are much decomposed and friable along the southern junction, and it is here a little galena is said to have been found when the quarry was first opened. This is not improbable, as the old Thwaite Head lead mine is situated not far off on the banks of Dale Park Beck.

Inscriptions from South Etruria

1966 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
J. M. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
The Road ◽  
Local Significance

The following group of inscriptions includes some unpublished texts found recently during the South Etruria survey and a few published ones in which additional or improved readings can be offered as a result of re-examination. Most of them are tombstones of essentially local significance, but nos. 1 and 4 from Tomba di Nerone, 5 from Casale Spizzichino and 20 from Filissano are of greater importance and interest.I. Sites on or near the Via Cassia.1. Travertine tombstone, damaged at the upper right corner (0·52 × 0·98 × 0·12), with schematic gable and acroteria above and a lightly and crudely incised wreath in the gable; inscribed on the exposed face, whose surface is damaged. Built into the wall of the drive leading to Via Cassia 901, which lies on the west side of the road a short distance beyond Tomba di Nerone. Recent building development revealed drainage cuniculi and other elements of a Roman building, and along the ancient road frontage there were several graves and remains of at least one mausoleum. It is very likely that some or all of the texts (nos. 1–4) were found locally.

scholarly journals ”Elveland” – Irony and Laughter as Power Media in Sea Sámi Folk-Song Tradition

Nordlit ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Lill Tove Fredriksen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
The Road ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Made In

The article is a literary analysis of the satirical Sámi folk-song ”Elveland”. The song about about the road man, forester and river attendant Elveland on the west side of the municipality of Porsanger was made in the beginning of the 1900s, as a form of revenge on the part of the local community because he would not let them cut as much firewood as they needed. With irony as an important device, the text serves as a meeting point for dialogues between different voices, and where power relations and the political nature of cultural identity is revealed.

scholarly journals III.—Note on the Excavation of the Valleys in Derbyshire

1869 ◽  
Vol 6 (62) ◽  
pp. 347-348
Author(s):  
H. C. Sorby
Keyword(s):  
East Side ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
The Road ◽  
Surface Drainage ◽  
Main Valley ◽  
Subterranean Stream ◽  
Marked Surface

For a considerable time I have taken much interest in the question of the origin of the narrow and deep valleys in the Carboni-ferous Limestone district of Derbyshire, and have carefully recorded whatever seemed to explain their formation. So far I have never met with more striking facts than those to be seen in Deep Dale, about three miles in a direct line E.S.E. from Buxton. I estimate the depth of the valley at about 100 feet, and its width at from 100 to 200 yards. At a distance of about a mile from the Bakewell road there is a cavern, which is especially conspicuous on the east side. Its entrance is about 6 feet high, 20 feet broad, and 40 feet above the bottom of the valley. It extends nearly horizontally for about 30 yards, and then descends to a lower level, where I did not further examine it. On looking from the entrance to the opposite side of the dale I was surprised to see what appears to be a continuation of the same cavern. The entrance on that side is at about 80 feet above the valley, and is so much blocked up with detritus that one can only examine it for a space of 10 yards. Taking, however, all the facts into consideration, it appears to me that at a very remote period a subterranean stream flowed continuously along these two caverns, from west to east. There is abundance of suitable gather ground on the west side which even now has no well-marked surface drainage, and from which much of the water probably escapes by a subterranean course, ending in the large spring in the main valley, by the road-side below Kingsterndale.

Recent Changes in the Teifi Estuary

1925 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 223-223
Author(s):  
M. P. Latter
Keyword(s):  
Opposite Direction ◽  
High Tide ◽  
River Channel ◽  
East Side ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
The North ◽  
River Bed ◽  
Main River ◽  
Sand Flats

Within the last 50 years the lower reaches of the Teifi from St. Dogmells to Cardigan Bar have undergone a complete change: the bed of the river formerly lay near the west side of the estuary as far as the Webley Arms, and this point in the river was then known as Pwll Cam (“the crooked pool”), as it was here that the river took a sharp bend describing an ogee curve by way of the spit to the east of the present sandbanks: this old river channel lay in clay, unlike the present shallow river bed on the east side of the estuary, and quite big vessels could float even at low tide in front of the Webley Arms, which is now a low stretch of mud banks covered at high tide. A wreck, which laid up over two or three tides, was the simple means of effecting this change in the river's course. Since then it has led to other comparatively rapid geological changes: the Manian-fâch stream, which has its source in the Pant-y-Groes plateau, used to flow almost direct into the Teifi, when in its old course; now, however, since the bed of the Teifi, on leaving the Battery Point, crosses over to the east side of the estuary, the whole of the estuary to the west has been silted up with sand and mud, and this has been accelerated by the formation of sand-banks right across the mouth of the bay: consequently the Manian-fâch stream, on emerging off the mainland, is now deflected to the S.E. and flows for about a mile approximately parallel to the main river, though in the opposite direction, before joining it nearby the Battery Point. The watershed of the roughly triangular strip of sand flats, seen at low tide, lies very close to the present river bed, so that practically all the water off this area at low tide drains first into the Manian-fâch, and thus describes nearly a complete circle twice daily. This instance is analogous to, but not quite homologous with, that of the Eiver Aide in Suffolk, the original mouth of which has been deflected more than 12 miles south by currents from the north.

Chipped Flints from below the Boulder Clay at Hertford

1917 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. O. Kendall
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
The Road ◽  
Gravel Pit ◽  
Boulder Clay

It has been to me a fascinating occupation to follow in the foot-steps of my mentor, the veteran prehistorian, Worthington G. Smith, in the study of flint implements in parts of the Lea valley in mid-Herts. At times, I have had the honour of supplementing, in a small way, his well known labours.One day, in 1903, I had a little while to wait for the train at Hertingfordbury, near Hertford, just above the junction of the rivers Mimram and Lea. Mr. Smith had found implements at Hertford; but none had, as yet, been discovered at Hertingfordbury. A large gravel pit, on the west side of the road, looked tempting. A very hasty search in the failing light revealed a flint (Fig. 62B) of promising appearance in the tough, upper, ochreous gravel, at 10ft. depth from the surface. By strenuous exertions: with hands, to extract it; and with feet, to keep my balance on a tiny ledge, I managed to secure the stone: and catch the train ! This was in the early days of my flint-hunting. But I have never found another quite like it. It has the appearance of an adze, of kite-shaped outline, with an obtusely pointed basal end, for mounting. Very few implements from the river drift, show, to my thinking, any signs of having been made for mounting.

XIX. A further account of some Druidical Remains in Derbyshire. By Hayman Rooke, Esq.

Archaeologia ◽  
1785 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 175-177
Author(s):  
Hayman Rooke
Keyword(s):  
High Peak ◽  
The West ◽  
Plate Xiii ◽  
West Side ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
East End ◽  
North End

On Hathersage Moor in the high Peak, not far from the road that goes from Sheffield to Manchester, is a British work, called Cair's work. See the plan Pl. XIII. fig. I. It is about two hundred yards in length, and sixty-one in width. It takes in an hill precipitous all round, except at the north end, where there is a wall of a very singular construction. It is near three feet thick, and consists of three rows of very large stones. On the top are other large stones, set obliquely end ways, a view of which is in the same plate fig. I. at b. The inside is filled up with earth and stones, which form the vallum, and slope inwards twenty-five feet. The height of the wall to the top of the sloping stones (as abovementioned) is nine feet four inches. The principal entrance seems to have been at the east end of the wall; a lesser one is on the west side; both marked (c) in the plan. The area of this work is full of rocks and large stones; several of these are rocking stones, three of which are engraved in Plate XIII. fig 2. (a) thirteen feet in length, (b) eight feet, (c) nine feet fix inches; and others have rock basons.

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