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Time Team Dig – Sanday, Orkney
These are details of digs by Time Team in Scotland including website links and programme details The Viking invasion was a significant event in British history. Orkney was used by the ‘Northmen’ as a stepping stone for their forays, and on the Ness of Brough on the island of Sanday, Time Team investigated a series…Continue…
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Time Team Dig – Viking Settlement – Fetlar, Shetland Islands
http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/2003_fetlar.html for the Viking Settlement Fetlar Programme Time Team were involved in an archaeological dig on Fetlar from August 26-29th 2002. The programme was shown in the 2003 series. On their recent visit to Fetlar, Shetland a visit was made by the Yell Young Archaeologists Group to the two sites that were being excavated by…Continue…
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Time Team 2004 – Roxburgh
Experts from Time Team concentrated their efforts on tracing the buried remains of the medieval town, granted its royal charter by King David I in the 12th century. In its heyday, Roxburgh had been an international trade centre. It counted among its visitors Italian bankers as well as the wool dealers who came to purchase…Continue…
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Time Team Dig – Govan, Glasgow
Time Team in Scotland including website links and programme details The churchyard at Govan, a suburb of Glasgow, contains thirty-one stones that date from the ninth to the eleventh centuries and are sculpted in Celtic, English, Pictish and Norse styles. Local archaeologists have been debating the History of Govan and its stones for years, and…Continue…
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Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Helmets :: Imgp5142
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden , Leiden, Netherlands Description : Dating from: 4th century AD, material: gilded silver, height: 28,5 cm, origin: the Peel (Dutch province of Noord-Brabant) The helmet consisted of a leather-lined iron cap, to which thin plates of gilded, tinned silver were attached by means of silver clout nails. On the right-hand side of…Continue…
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Romans in Scotland – Carpow Roman Fort
The Carpow Roman Legionary Fortress was discovered by Aerial photography which showed the defensive ditches as cropmarks. Carpow is situated on the River Tay , in Eastern Scotland ,where it meets the River Earn at a point which could easily be reached by cargo ships. On the north bank of the River Tay, aerial photography…Continue…
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Metal Detecting – Recording your finds
Any metal detectorist will tell you that finds of gold, silver , hoards of coins and metalwork are few and far between! However all the non-treasure items are potentially of great importance to our history. By recording these finds, we learn more about where people were living, what they were wearing, who they were trading…Continue…
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Metal Detecting
How does GPS work? Garmin GPS Guide for Beginners & Using Garmin GPS with paper maps (PDF’s). http://www.garmin.com/aboutGPS/manual.html GPS tutorial; http://www.trimble.com/gps/index.html Understanding GPS, map reading & survival http://www.gpsnavmag.com/gps_navigation_training/gps_training_education.htm
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Skara Brae Furniture
The furniture in the village houses was largely made of stone for two related reasons – Firstly, Orkney , then as now, was almost without trees – scondly the nature of the local flagstone, its ready availability and workability makes it ideal construction material for most purposes. The Beds Today we see only the skeletons…Continue…
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Skara Brae Artefacts
Artefacts Bone points and polishers – these bone points could have been used for punching holes and stitching leather but they could also have been used for teasing out crab meat. Some of the bone points are round and blunt – they may have been used for polishing leather Serrated slab – this stone…Continue…
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Ourpasthistory.com Image Gallery :: Maclellan's Castle
Maclellan’s Castle Dumfries and Galloway Variation of an L shaped fortalice with a main east/west block, a winh extending to the north, a rectangular tower, and two projecting towers. Part of the main block rises to 5 storeys – the rest to 4 storeys. The stonework is coursed rubble with some decorative detail – there…Continue…
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Metal Detecting
Why buy a GPS? GPS is extremely accurate, locations are given to 10 figures (5 Eastings and 5 Northings). This pinpoints the location theoretically to within 1 metre, however due to satellite reception quality and other errors is more typically reliable to within 10 metres. Such an accuracy is much appreciated by PAS for…Continue…
