Chronological Framework for the Early Talayotic Period in Menorca: The Settlement of Cornia Nou

Radiocarbon ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Montserrat Anglada ◽  
Antoni Ferrer ◽  
Lluís Plantalamor ◽  
Damià Ramis ◽  
Mark van Strydonck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Phase ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
South Side ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Architectural Structures

The prehistoric site of Cornia Nou (Menorca) features a number of well-preserved architectural structures belonging to the Talayotic culture. Over the last 6 yr, a team linked to the Museum of Menorca has conducted an archaeological excavation project of a large rectangular building attached to the south side of a substantial and massive talayot, which is considered the western talayot. The main objective of this paper is to present the chronological framework of this building, specifying the period of use and the time of abandonment of the building, as well as the dating of the different phases of its construction. A total of 27 14C analyses were obtained from samples of the stratigraphic layers and architectonic structures inside the South Building (SB). This research has provided new insights concerning the early stages of the Talayotic culture. The 14C dates allow us to place the first recorded occupation phase of the SB in an interval dated within 1100–900 BC (phase 4). A second phase in the occupation of the SB dates to ∼900–800 BC (phase 5). A final occupation phase could be situated between 800–600 BC (phase 6). However, this record provides evidence to suggest that the construction of the west talayot may pertain to a time before the beginning of the 1st millennium cal BC.

Chronological Framework for the Early Talayotic Period in Menorca: The Settlement of Cornia Nou

Radiocarbon ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (02) ◽  
pp. 411-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Montserrat Anglada ◽  
Antoni Ferrer ◽  
Lluís Plantalamor ◽  
Damià Ramis ◽  
Mark van Strydonck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Phase ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
South Side ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Architectural Structures

The prehistoric site of Cornia Nou (Menorca) features a number of well-preserved architectural structures belonging to the Talayotic culture. Over the last 6 yr, a team linked to the Museum of Menorca has conducted an archaeological excavation project of a large rectangular building attached to the south side of a substantial and massivetalayot, which is considered the westerntalayot.The main objective of this paper is to present the chronological framework of this building, specifying the period of use and the time of abandonment of the building, as well as the dating of the different phases of its construction. A total of 2714C analyses were obtained from samples of the stratigraphic layers and architectonic structures inside the South Building (SB). This research has provided new insights concerning the early stages of the Talayotic culture. The14C dates allow us to place the first recorded occupation phase of the SB in an interval dated within 1100–900 BC (phase 4). A second phase in the occupation of the SB dates to ∼900–800 BC (phase 5). A final occupation phase could be situated between 800–600 BC (phase 6). However, this record provides evidence to suggest that the construction of the westtalayotmay pertain to a time before the beginning of the 1st millennium cal BC.

The Hellenistic and Byzantine Defences of Tocra (Taucheira)

1998 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 35-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Smith ◽  
James Crow
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Outer Wall ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Curtain Wall ◽  
South Side ◽  
Sea Wall ◽  
The City

AbstractThe fortifications of the Hellenistic and Roman city of Tocra are over 2 km long (including the sea-wall) and comprise a curtain wall up to 2 m wide flanked by 31 rectangular towers. Three main structural phases were noted in the survey carried out in 1966 by David Smith: (1) Hellenistic walls of isodomic ashlar, (2) later Hellenistic work of isodomic ashlar with bevelled edges, associated with the indented trace along the south rampart, and (3) an extensive rebuild of plain ashlar blocks including the towers and reconstruction to the East and West Gates, dateable, on the basis of Procopius, to the reign of Justinian. The general significance of the fortifications at Tocra is considered in the second part: these include the Hellenistic indented trace along the south side, later reinforced by towers in the sixth century AD. Also of wider importance was the use of an outer wall or proteichisma, and the pentagonal, pointed towers at the two main gates. Both these elements were unusual in Byzantine North Africa and they are discussed as part of the more general repertory of Byzantine fortifications. The unusual tower adjacent to the West Church is considered in the context of literary accounts. The article concludes by considering how the architecture and magnitude of the fortifications can allow a reassessment of the wider role of the city in the sixth and seventh century defences of Cyrenaica.

scholarly journals SIDOARJO MUD DRAINAGE SYSTEM

CI-TECH ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Achmad Baydhowi ◽  
Soebagio
Keyword(s):  
Drainage System ◽  
Soil Condition ◽  
Drainage Channel ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
South Side ◽  
Flood Discharge ◽  
Discharge Plan ◽  
Embankment Height

Sidoarjo or Lusi mud has an area of ​​640 ha and an average embankment height of 10 meters and submerges three sub-districts, namely Porong District, Jabon District and Tanggulangin District. In 2018, the Sidoarjo mud embankment has decreased or subsided by up to 8.5 meters at several points, which was caused by the condition of the embankment which was almost full and caused the soil condition of the embankment to become unstable. For this problem, it is necessary to build a drainage channel at the edge of the embankment to overcome the overflow of the embankment and flow it to the Porong river which is on the south side of the Sidoarjo mud embankment. From the calculation of the planned rain discharge, it is found that R2 = 72.95 mm after the planned rainfall is obtained, then the next is to look for the flood discharge plan which then plans the dimensions of the channel on the west and east sides of the embankment after obtaining the dimensions of the channel, then the next is planning the resistance pond and draining it to the porong river. with Siphon Network Pipe

Ancient Cultivations at Housesteads, Northumberland

Antiquity ◽  
1931 ◽  
Vol 5 (19) ◽  
pp. 351-354
Author(s):  
W. Percy Hedley
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
South Side ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Hadrian's Wall ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Hill ◽  
North And South

The Roman Fort of Borcovicium at Housesteads in Northumberland should need no introduction to anyone interested in archaeology. During the last year it has been brought into great prominence by being presented to the Nation by Mr John Maurice Clayton, and through its close proximity to the portion of Hadrian’s Wall recently threatened by quarrying operations.The fort at Housesteads was one of the earliest to be examined by British antiquaries, but although it has received so much attention its environs have been almost entirely disregarded. On both sides of the Military Way leading out of the west gateway was an extensive civil settlement, and traces of buildings can be seen on the south side of the fort. The hillside sloping to the southward is covered with the remains of early cultivations. These have generally been accepted as of Romano-British age. There are, however, two distinct systems of early cultivation. To the southwest of the fort there is a series of terraces running along the hillside, but on the southeast of the fort there are lynchets running north and south at regular interva up and down the hillside. From the hill to the south of Housesteads it can be clearly seen that where there is terrace cultivation it has been superimposed on the earlier system of lynchets, and this is also shown in air photographs.

The botany of Jaagi Island, Santa Isabel

1969 ◽  
Vol 255 (800) ◽  
pp. 571-573
Keyword(s):  
Sandy Beach ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
South Side ◽  
Natural Reserve ◽  
Short Time

This brief account of the island is a record for future comparison. I visited it for a short time with Morton in 1964 and I spent the whole day, 30 September, there in 1965. The island is in a sense ‘tambu’, or forbidden, and bears no sign of recent human intervention, unless for the digging of megapode eggs. It is, therefore, a natural reserve which, it is to be hoped, will be maintained. The south side, however, is being eroded though there is some building of a sandy beach at the west end.

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.

Excavations of Ermine Street in Lincolnshire

1959 ◽  
Vol 39 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 77-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Green ◽  
P. A. Rahtz
Keyword(s):  
Western Boundary ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
South Side ◽  
North West ◽  
Main Street ◽  
Trunk Road

The course of the Roman road from London to York, today known as Ermine Street, is well attested. Much of it underlies our comparable modern trunk road, the Great North Road (A1), but there are many deviations. To review the East Midland sector, the modern road covers approximately the Roman road from Huntingdon to the south-east gate of the walled town DVROBRIVAE at Water Newton. Here the modern road bears more to the west and leaves the Roman line. This passes through the ancient town as its main street, crosses the river Nene and continues in the same line until, at a point some three miles south-east of Stamford, it bears more westerly, running west-north-west through Burghley Park. It crosses the Great North Road on the western boundary of the park, where it was exposed in 1732 and seen by Stukeley (1883, ii, 269). From this point its course alters to north-west and, after crossing the river Welland, it underlies a suburban road in the western part of Stamford and crosses the Empingham (Oakham) road (A606). North of this it is seen as a boldly-upraised ridge crossing several fields diagonally until, some three-quarters of a mile south-east of Great Casterton, it joins once again the line of the Great North Road and runs parallel to and immediately adjoining the south side of the modern roadway.

Archaeology in Greece, 1924–25

1925 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-228
Author(s):  
Arthur M. Woodward
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
American School ◽  
South Side ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
Made In

This article attempts to summarise the results (1) of those excavations carried out in Greek lands in 1924 of which no report was available in time for my account printed in the last volume of the Journal, and (2) of the excavations of 1925 of which reports had come to hand before the end of September. This system will be followed in the accounts which I hope to contribute annually henceforward.American SchoolThe varied activities of the American School included excavations at the sites of Corinth, the Argive Heraeum, and Eutresis in Boeotia. At Nemea and Phlius, the opening campaigns at which sites were described in my report of a year ago, no further work was done in the summer of 1925. At Corinth, thanks to a generous subsidy by, and the personal enterprise of, Professor T. L. Shear, substantial progress was made with the Herculean task of clearing the theatre, where, on the south side of the orchestra, the depth of the deposit of earth proved to be 12 metres; before the season closed, over 5000 tons of debris had been removed to a dump a quarter of a mile away. In the west of the cavea the seats proved to be all destroyed, but a remarkable discovery was made, in the form of a wall, originally ca. 2·80 metres high, surrounding the orchestra. This where cleared was preserved to a height of 1·70 m., and was painted in fresco with scenes of life-sized figures engaged in combat with lions. One combatant, in action with a lion which charges him from the left, is clad in a long purple under-garment, with a white over-garment fastened at the knee; another wears a short garment which hangs down in front, leaving the legs bare to the hips, and white sandals; other figures, variously clad, and also fighting lions, appear in other scenes.

scholarly journals XXIX. Conjectures on an antient Tomb in Salisbury Cathedral. By Mr. Gough

Archaeologia ◽  
1809 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-193
Author(s):  
Gough
Keyword(s):  
Lower Half ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
South Side ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Fourth Arch

On the south side of the nave of Salisbury cathedral, under the fourth arch from the west, lies a monument of blue speckled marble, with the figure of a bishop in pontificalibus, his right hand lifted up to give the blessing, his left hand holding the crosier. On the perpendicular sides or edge all round is cut an inscription in large capitals; and on the front of the robe, another in letters somewhat similar. The slab lay to deeply bedded in the stone foundation on which the pillars of the nave rest, that the first of these inscriptions had entirely escaped the notice of the curious, or if any had noticed it, the lower half of the letters being out of sight, rendered it unintelligible. Last summer I procured it to be raised, and the pavement disposed round it in such a manner, that it can henceforth receive no injury, but will remain the second oldest monument in that church, if the conjectures I have formed upon it are founded in truth.

Part II. The Grave Circle

1954 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 244-247
Author(s):  
A. J. B. Wace ◽  
F. H. Stubbings
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
East Side ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
South Side ◽  
Double Ring ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Western Half ◽  
Made In

In 1950 and 1952, in view of recent discussions about the date of the Grave Circle, we decided to make some fresh soundings in its supporting wall to see if any fresh evidence could be obtained. In the first year the work was confined to soundings in the battered supporting wall on the south side opposite the north-east corner of the House of the Warrior Vase, and was undertaken by Mr. Kenneth Rowe. In 1952 further soundings were made in the battered supporting wall, the wall at its base on the west was further examined, and a sectional cut was made across the double ring of standing slabs on the north-east side about midway between the entrance and the then surviving cover slabs. The work was then directed by Dr. F. H. Stubbings.At the time of Schliemann's excavations the western part of the double ring of vertical poros slabs of the Grave Circle, which rests on the battered supporting wall, was in a very ruinous condition. This can be seen clearly in Schliemann's illustration and in the photographs published later. After the close of Schliemann's and Stamatakes' excavations the supporting wall was restored both on the west and on the south, and the western half of the double ring of standing slabs was reconstructed. When Keramopoullos excavated the fallen rock in the centre of the circle the Greek Archaeological Service undertook some further work of conservation.

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