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Brit Archaeol News 6
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Brit Archaeol News 6
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British Archaeological News
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6
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1993
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20 Jan 2002
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Update on portable antiquities
Henry F Cleere
3
Reprints from Hansard the statement made by Lord Hesketh on behalf of the DoE which is the definitive Departmental response to comments made on the consultative paper issued in Feb 1988. The only legislative change planned is to strengthen controls over finds from scheduled sites; non-scheduled sites are not mentioned. However, recent press cuttings show that the looting of finds from archaeological sites is still continuing. MH
Excavating Roman Britain
6 - 7
Comprises three reports of recent fieldwork at Roman military sites. Mike Bishop describes an `A1 discovery' (6) -- that the complex revealed by APs at Roecliffe, North Yorkshire includes the remains of three previously unidentified forts and extra-mural settlement. The Roman features were found after a geophysical survey intended to investigate the possibility of prehistoric evidence associated with the Devil's Arrows stone alignment. Although avoiding the latest fort, the motorway passed through the extramural area, and excavation within a twenty metre wide corridor revealed strip buildings with evidence for industrial activity and structures associated with the two earlier fort phases. Geoff Bailey reports on a `Missing fort recovered' (7), at Falkirk on the Antonine Wall. Here, excavating one step at a time ahead of the developers, a local team investigated 80% of the site and found evidence of a native enclosure superimposed by part of a Roman fort. This proved the location of the fort whose existence was beginning to be doubted by archaeologists. Nick Hodgson writes of recently discovered Iron Age occupation and an early Roman fort phase discovered in ten years of fieldwork at the site overlooking the River Tyne, in `South Shields on parade' (7).
Government response to `Heritage at Sea'
Henry F Cleere
15
Report of the Government's detailed response to the policy document produced by the Joint Nautical Archaeology Policy Committee in 1989 (see 89/964). The government is not persuaded of the need for new legislation for the protection of underwater sites, nor of the need for setting up a new maritime protection agency. Lead responsibility for maritime archaeology will be transferred to the DoE, who will work with the relevant archaeological bodies. Central records of historic wrecks will be prepared by the Royal Commissions. A code of practice for seabed operators will be considered. MH
Competitive tendering and archaeological research: the development of a CBA view
George Lambrick
17 - 18
Emphasises that the promotion of good research is a primary objective of the CBA, and that competitive tendering is not intrinsically incompatible with this. However, it is necessary to set consistent standards that are academically sound, achievable and capable of being monitored. It is argued that pluralistic approaches to research within an area can have positive benefits, and that too strict a degree of territoriality can limit research. MH
Archaeology in the National Parks
Henry F Cleere
29
Summary of the archaeological sections of the National Parks Review Panel report Fit for the Future (0 861702 91 3; Countryside Commission, £20). Makes strong recommendations for better provisions for the protection and management of the archaeological monuments and historic buildings in the National Parks. The report stresses the importance of survey and inventory and of systematic research. Doubts are cast on the effectiveness of statutory protection within the Parks. The report also discusses the architectural heritage and makes recommendations for giving higher priority to the protection and sensitive management of historic buildings in the National Parks. Au(abr)
Wall on trial or trial on Wall?
Provides a critical discussion of the Countryside Commission's proposal to create a footpath along the line of Hadrian's Wall. The length of wall or vallum that would be affected and the numbers of people it is estimated will use the path are stated.
Volunteers for humps and bumps
Steve Dyer
Considers a potential role of voluntary societies, which may be unable to take part in intensive rescue excavation, but are able to carry out very valuable long-term studies of historic landscapes. Notes that a post has been established by the Surrey Archaeological Society and Surrey County Council to involve volunteers in such work and mentions surveys which were undertaken in the 1980s.
New initiatives on Stonehenge
Reports on the results of an English Heritage survey of views concerning the proposals for the site and notes the gist of the CBA's submission to EH.
What future for our cups and rings?
Stan Beckensall
Highlights the conservation problems posed by rock art which, in North East England is often found on large boulders in exposed situations in out-of-the-way places. Although the remoteness of most sites is generally a deterrent to humans, there is no consensus as to how best to protect rock art from exposure to the elements.
BAN interview with Anna Ritchie
Vintage discovery
Rob Poulton
Recent excavations of the thirteenth-century palace have revealed complex building sequences, one of which includes a thirteenth-century vaulted undercroft, possibly a wine cellar.
Town centre tannery
Notes discovery of structures relating to an eighteenth-century tannery and earlier features during excavation on the site of recent bomb-damage.
Small town teamwork
Myk Flitcroft
Andrew Tester
Reports that the last undisturbed parts of the Roman settlement on the `Pye Road' (between Camulodunum and Venta Icenorum) are threatened with destruction by the A140 Scole Bypass. Excavations have revealed the ditches of the Roman road and the remains of buildings. Industrial activity, including ironworking, has also been identified.
Miami advice
Robert A Croft
A deposit of waterlogged timbers found during investigations on the route of the Glastonbury bypass was 14C dated to 980~BC by a Miami-based laboratory. Although some beaver-gnawing was apparent, there was no evidence of human activity on the site and the timbers are thought to represent a waterlaid lakeside deposit.
Dancing feet in the 15th century
M Atkin
Records the discovery of an assemblage of medieval footwear in the waterlogged fill of a drainage ditch in Gloucester. Subsequent evidence included part of a sixteenth-century building.
Oxford Unit in the Tower
Reports the discovery of part of the Roman town wall in the Bowyer Tower in the Tower of London.
Town survey marches on
Victoria Buteux
Malcolm Cooper
Outlines the aims of the Central Marches Historic Towns Survey, a two-year project focusing on seventy towns in Hereford and Worcester, and Shropshire.
Hampshire update
Michael F Hughes
Announces the start of two survey projects in the county. The first is centred on the Highclere Estate and encompasses prehistoric, medieval, and post-medieval landscape features. The second is a survey of Langstone Harbour.
Owls in the basilica
Barbara West
Discovery of a barn owl pellet evinces the rural character of second-century Londinium (see also 94/461).
Plugging the gaps
Michael Trueman
Reports on the setting up of a scheme intended to help fill in information on Industrial period sites which has not been included in county SMRs and the NMR. The Index Record of Industrial Sites has been devised by the Association for Industrial Archaeology, who have produced a recording form and handbook for use by those wishing to take part.
