Somerset's Peatland Archaeology

The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete monuments. The importance of Somerset's prehistoric wetland heritage is shown by the fact that twenty-five percent of all the prehistoric waterlogged sites thought still to exist in England are from the Somerset moors, the County Museum in Taunton Castle holds the largest collection of conserved prehistoric worked wood in the UK, possibly in the whole of Europe, the Sweet Track (the oldest known wooden trackway in the UK) and Glastonbury Lake Village have produced the most complete record of Neolithic and Iron Age material culture in the UK and Glastonbury Lake Village was the best preserved prehistoric settlement ever discovered in the UK. This substantial monograph presents the results of the MARISP project ( Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands) which thoroughly assessed the condition of the wetland monuments and the ongoing threats to their survival and aimed to answer key research questions about the sites through the use of minimally invasive excavation and to inform the development of future national and county wetland strategies

Total Lightning Observations within Electrified Snowfall using Polarimetric Radar, LMA, and NLDN Measurements

Four electrified snowfall cases are examined using total lightning measurements from lightning mapping arrays (LMAs), and the National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) from Huntsville, AL and Washington D.C. In each of these events, electrical activity was in conjunction with heavy snowfall rates, sometimes exceeding 5-8 cm hr-1. A combination of LMA, and NLDN data also indicate that many of these flashes initiated from tall communications towers and traveled over large horizontal distances. During events near Huntsville, AL, the Advanced Radar for Meteorological and Operational Research (ARMOR) C-band polarimetric radar was collecting range height indicators (RHIs) through regions of heavy snowfall. The combination of ARMOR polarimetric radar and VHF LMA observations suggested contiguous layer changes in height between sloping aggregate-dominated layers and horizontally-oriented crystals. These layers may have provided ideal conditions for the development of extensive regions of charge and resultant horizontal propagation of the lightning flashes over large distances

Birch bark tar in early Medieval England:continuity of tradition or technological revival?

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Recent radiocarbon dating and skeletal analysis of two log coffin burials from Yorkshire : Willie Howe and Towthorpe 139

This paper presents the results of the re-analysis and dating of skeletal material from two Early Bronze Age barrows in the east of Yorkshire, which contained log coffin burials. Towthorpe 139, which was investigated in the nineteenth century by the antiquarian JR Mortimer and Willie Howe, Cowlam which was excavated by TCM Brewster in the 1960s. Analysis of the human remains from Towthorpe revealed that the inhumed body was that of an adult male and the cremated remains, which were found in the mound above the log coffin burial were of a young person. Those from Willie Howe were of an adult male who had suffered a blow to the head. Not enough of the Towthorpe burials survived to obtain radiocarbon dates; however, two determinations were obtained on the skeleton from Willie Howe. These dates have revealed that the human remains date to the period ca. 2200–2000 cal BC

The chronology of Glastonbury Lake Village

The Glastonbury Lake Village in Somerset, UK, is made up of 90 mounds comprising 40 roundhouses. Excavations between 1892 and 1907 revealed Iron Age structural and material remains unparalleled in Western Europe. The settlement's exact chronology, however, has remained uncertain. Here, the authors present a programme of radiocarbon and dendrochronological dating and chronological modelling on samples from recent excavations. The results indicate that the site was founded in the early second century cal BC, with the last structures being built just over a century later. This new, robust chronology can be used to date a wide range of associated material culture, and complements chronologies established for other Iron Age sites

Temporada de quaresma del 1936

De cada obra s'ha digitalitzat un programa sencer. De la resta s'han digitalitzat les parts que són diferents.Direcció artística Empresa Joan Mestres CalvetOrquestra del Gran Teatre del Liceu. Direcció: Hans Knappertsbusch; Igor Stravisnky, Joan Lamote de GrignonPrograma general de la temporada de quaresma de 1936 per l'Orquestra del Gran Teatre del Liceu. Repertori: primera simfonia de Beethoven; novena simfonia de Beethoven; preludi i mort de Tristany i Isolda de Wagner; preludi d'Els mestres cantaires de Richard Wagner; preludi i escenda del Divendres Sant de Parsifal Richard Wagner; Don Joan de Richard Strauss; Simfonia en si bemoll major de Johann Christian Bach; Oberon de Weber; Divertimento per a orquestra d' Igor Stravinsky; Capriccio per a orquestra i piano d'Igor Stravinsky; concerto a dos pianos d'Igor Stravinsky; Simfonia dels Salsm d'Igor Stravinsky; Apollon d'Igor Stravinsky; l'Ocell de foc d'Igor Stravinsky i Le sacre du Printemps d'Igor Stravinsky; Obertura de Francesc Pujol; Simfonieta d'Alexandre Zelimsky; Tres preludis de Ricard Lamote de Grignon; Le tombeau de Couperin de Maurice Ravel; Tres danses mallorquines de Baltasar Samper; Allegro simfònic d'Antoni Marquès i La nit de Nada de Joan Lamote de Grignon.Amb la col·laboració de l'Orfeó Gracienc que dirigeix Joan Ballcells i l'Orfeó L'Eco de Catalunya sota la direcció de Josep M. Comell

Somerset's Peatland Archaeology

The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete monuments. The importance of Somerset's prehistoric wetland heritage is shown by the fact that twenty-five percent of all the prehistoric waterlogged sites thought still to exist in England are from the Somerset moors, the County Museum in Taunton Castle holds the largest collection of conserved prehistoric worked wood in the UK, possibly in the whole of Europe, the Sweet Track (the oldest known wooden trackway in the UK) and Glastonbury Lake Village have produced the most complete record of Neolithic and Iron Age material culture in the UK and Glastonbury Lake Village was the best preserved prehistoric settlement ever discovered in the UK. This substantial monograph presents the results of the MARISP project ( Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands) which thoroughly assessed the condition of the wetland monuments and the ongoing threats to their survival and aimed to answer key research questions about the sites through the use of minimally invasive excavation and to inform the development of future national and county wetland strategies

Structural wood in prehistoric England and Wales

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