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Book chapter
Conservation through recognition: material culture research as a heritage management tool for conflict sites
In Scotland (UK) Treasure Trove law requires all discoveries of archaeological objects, regardless of age or composition, to be reported to the Treasure Trove Unit (TTU) based in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. This capacity to record and scrutinize a broad range of artifacts allows the Unit to build...Ferguson, Natasha
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Research report
Excavations at Birnie, Moray, 2009
The 2009 excavations examined six roundhouses, three of which had burnt down. Several showed signs of later activity. Trench AL looked at burnt deposits uncovered in a previous trial trench. It revealed a substantial ring-ditch house, 16 m in diameter, which had been repaired and rebuilt before burning down, preserving...Hunter, Fraser
Iron Age Birnie Romans Scotland Antiquities Bronze Age Middle Ages
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Journal article
Archäologie ohne Aufgaben? Wie die Fortschritte naturwissenschaftlicher Verfahren die moderne archäologische Forschung an Funden beeinflussen und verändern: Scientific archaeology - to what end? How progress in the analytical methods of the natural sciences has influenced and changed modern archaeological research on finds
Modern research on archaeological artefacts has profited considerably from the use of analytical techniques from the natural sciences. Recent research has allowed us to reconstruct considerably more precise "biographies" of artefacts than was the case previously, as illustrated by several examples from the author's own current research. However, as is...Sheridan, J A
Archaeology, Natural Scientic Analysis Methods, and New Findings
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Book chapter
Résumé de synthèse : Clairvaux et le “Néolithique Moyen Bourguignon” (Abstract and synthesis: Clairvaux and the "Burgundy Middle Neolithic")
Cet ouvrage dirigé par Pierre et Anne-Marie Pétrequin, est une monographie archéologique de trois villages néolithiques du lac de Clairvaux (Jura), replacés dans le contexte social, culturel et chronologique de la première moitié du IVe millénaire av. J.-C. au nord-ouest des Alpes.Pétrequin, P ; Sheridan, J A ; Pétrequin, A-M
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Journal article
‘Where the battle rages’: conflict in Post-Medieval archaeology
War and conflict has been well represented in Post-Medieval Archaeology over the last 50 years with a range of research exploring the archaeology of conflict in the modern world. The aim of this article is to review themes of war and conflict as presented in Post-Medieval Archaeology and to track...Ferguson, Natasha ; Scott, D
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Journal article
A short cist burial at Kilkeddan Farm, Campbeltown, Argyll & Bute
AOC Archaeology Group undertook the excavation of a previously unknown Bronze Age cist, located in a field close to Kilkeddan Farm, Argyll & Bute, during September 2005 under the Historic Scotland call-off contract for human remains. The cist was found to contain poorly surviving unburnt human skeletal remains along with...McLaren, Dawn ; Wilson, Donald
Knife, Burial, Food Vessel, Bronze Age, and Rapid-Response Excavation
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Book chapter
4.3.2 Copper alloy
Excavation on the headland at Auldhame has revealed one thousand years of burial activity and liturgical practice, the nature of which changed over the course of the millennium. It has charted the birth and death of a church, from a monastic settlement established in the seventh century AD, which then...McLaren, Dawn ; Hunter, Fraser