Hi all I'm in, IE6 would not work, even after I re-installed it. I re-installed Netscape 6.2 and this seems to work. However in the past I found 6.2 to be the cause of serious memory leakage problems which is why I switched to IE6.
Anyway I now have a way to post.
Anyway, on Sunday, this is what we did:
one Hut circle one Iron Age Enclosure One Legionary Marching camp One Roman signal station two 12C Abbeys two Saxon churches two roman temples (under the churches) three roman forts One Celtic holy place (waterfall and caves) Three Norman Castles
Plus a couple of bridges and some ancient crosses.
The most interesting aspect for me was the way that the Normans had of re-using the Roman fort as a castle, building the Castle over one set of buildings and the Church over the temple. It's my theory that most Norman castles were built on top of previous forts, either Roman or Iron Age, and this is one of the reasons for the lack of recognisable forts from both periods in some areas.
The North East Friends thread covers the following areas:
Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear Cleveland Yorkshire Humberside Anyone else who has an interest.
<GeorgeC>
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This looks interesting:
"Archaeologia Aeliana" is the annual journal-volume of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. This year there will be TWO volumes. As well as the normal volume, there will be an extra volume (5th series, volume 31), entitled "The Roman Fort at Newcastle upon Tyne", by Margaret Snape and Paul Bidwell, approx 300 pages and 90 ills. This is a full excavation report of the Roman phase of the excavations conducted at the Castle, Newcastle upon Tyne, from the 1970's to the 1990's. It is accompanied by a major essay on the plan and function of the fort in relation to the eastern sections of the Roman Wall. (The fort was part of the Hadrian's Wall system, but -- unlike most Wall forts -- wasn't built till well after Hadrian's time.)
We hope to despatch this extra volume in December or January. MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY WILL RECEIVE THE VOLUME FREE, as part of their subscriptions for 2002, and need read no further. In a departure from normal practice, we have decided to make the volume available to non-members also. The cost of a softback will be UKP 25.00; a bright red hardback will cost UKP 30.00 (both prices include postage & packing). We can't afford to print any for stock (and won't be sending out any review copies), so the volume won't be available for casual sales after it's printed. However, we can print a few extra for people who can commit themselves IN ADVANCE. So, if you would like a copy, you will need to send us an order by 1st December, 2002. This should state whether you would like a softback or a hardback, and include a cheque for the full amount, made payable to:
'The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne'.
Send it to:
Publications, The Black Gate, Castle Garth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1RQ.
<Chris 'Awkward' McKenna>
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quote:Originally posted by GeorgeC: The North East Friends thread covers the following areas:
Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear Cleveland Yorkshire Humberside Anyone else who has an interest.
George, My boss is originally from Cumbria (just outside Carlisle), and he delights in telling us that he considers himself to be from the north-west (when he isn't going on about how much better than the Scots the Cumbrians (if that is the correct term) are)!
I just don't want to exclude anyone, I'd expect the NW thread to include Cumbria (and bits of Yorkshire for that matter).
I'm sure we could argue the toss about it but all I know is when I first started posting it took me quite a while to work out which regional thread to post on.
2000/3000 bc. It started of as a general interest, TT, history and all. I went out for a piece of pottery and came back with a pebble patch containing +/- 2500 bc lifestyle. I now have +/- 100 sure stones, Tools, imaging, and stones showing heavy simularitys with Henge stones, and clear workmethode. Also enough to prove. Actually this stuff is way beyond my leage, but with a little help from friends one gets by. Village Reek. 20 kilometers from Nijmegen
I was going to suggest we "adopt" Joanne as an honorary member since:
1. She's going to the Bronze Age conference in Newcastle and will probably end up knowing more about the Bronze Age in the north than most of us, and
2. At the time there seemed to be only a few Nederlands peeps on the forum, and since there were only a few of us posting on the other forum I thought it would make sense.
But then this new forum came along, and with the raft of new Dutch posts I thought we were in danger of getting a permanant Netherlands thread (which is only a matter of time).
However, given point one above and also the fact that no-one needs permission to post here anyway (but it's nice to be invited) I'd like to propose we accept Joanne as an honorary friend, a NEFFF - North East Forum Friends Friend!
<GeorgeC>
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It was the open dat at Piercebridge today - a very good day.
It's my second time to see the Northern Archaeology Groups work and they announced the finding of ANOTHER set of bridge postholes, which means it has had four bridges not including the current one (or three and a dam depending on your point of view).
I'm hoping this last one is Iron Age (too early to tell as yet) as I'm sure there was an river crossing here in the Iron Age.
Since I'd seen some of the presentations before I thought I'd go for a little exploration of my own - since the Pircebridge thread on this forum earlier in the year I've learnt quite a bit about Roman river navigation and thought I'd try out a few theories of my own. Lo an behold I found some additional roman works, which had not been noticed before. I'm not sure what they mean but I found some additional river cuttings to the west of the bridge, there were known about, but I found some Roman stonework of a watery kind in one of the cuts, this had not been seen before and provided some additional new information so I'm happy.
<Jane>
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George/All - This may be of interest.....
The Iron Age in the North-East of England Recent Discoveries The Conference Centre, Ebsworth Building, University of Durham, Stockton Campus
Saturday 2nd November 2002 10.15am - 4.45pm
Speakers will include:
Introduction by Robin Daniels Tees Archaeology
Richard Fraser Northern Archaeological Associates
Colin Haselgrove University of Durham
Alistair Oswald English Heritage
Steve Sherlock Steve Sherlock Services
Steve Speak Tyne and Wear Museum Service
Tony Spence British Museum
Summing up by Blaise Vyner Tees Valley Archaeology
The fee is £8 for the day including tea and biccies and synopsis of papers.
Anyone interested should contact Robin Daniels at Tees Archaeology, Sir William Gray House, Hartlepool
