User:Richard Nevell
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I have a PhD in archaeology and specialise in the Middle Ages, and also have an interest in the Roman period.
In chronological order I've started the clusters on
Viking longship [r]: a vessel used during the Viking Age for transport over water [e]- dendrochronology [r]: The practice of using tree rings to provide dates [e]
- radiocarbon dating [r]: A scientific method of determining the age of organic material based on the amount of carbon-14. [e]
Willard F. Libby [r]: American chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960 for developing radiocarbon dating. [e]
Pompeii [r]: A Roman city buried by a volcanic eruption A.D. 79. The city is now an important archaeological site. [e]- Hadrian [r]: Roman Emperor from 117 until his death in 138. [e]
- Pantheon, Rome [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hadrian's Villa [r]: A now ruined palatial complex built between A.D. 118 and 133 by the Roman Emperor Hadrian. [e]
- Cumae [r]: Was as a coastal settlement in Italy, just north of the Bay of Naples, founded in the 8th century B.C. [e]
- Etruscans [r]: An ancient people who lived in western Italy and were most powerful during the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. [e]
- Richter scale [r]: A measure of an earthquake's strength. [e]
- Colosseum [r]: An amphitheatre in Rome built in the 1st century A.D. [e]
- Campania [r]: A region of southern Italy, covering about 5,250 square miles. [e]
- Herculaneum [r]: A Roman town buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79. [e]
- Battle Abbey [r]: A religious house founded by William the Conqueror on the site of Battle of Hastings. [e]
- Joachim Winckelmann [r]: (1717–1768) A German classicist who brought the excavations at Herculaneum to international attention. [e]
- deserted medieval village [r]: Settlements occupied during the medieval period and abandoned then or later. [e]
- Nero [r]: Roman Emperor from A.D. 54 to A.D. 68 [e]
- Leaning Tower of Pisa [r]: A bell tower built in the 12th century, now famous for its lean. [e]
Lighthouse of Alexandria [r]: One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Lighthouse guided shipping into the busy port of Alexandria. [e]- Colossus of Rhodes [r]: A statue of the Greek god Helios built in early 3rd century B.C.; it was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World [e]
- Pliny the Elder [r]: A Roman natural historian who lived in the 1st century A.D.; his most famous work is Natural History, an encyclopaedia. [e]
- Nile River [r]: One of the longest rivers in the world at about 6,695km from its source in the south to the Mediterranean Sea in the north. [e]
- Guildford [r]: The county town of Surrey in England [e]
- Chartres [r]: A town in France with a population of 39,000. [e]
- Caligula [r]: Roman Emperor from A.D. 37 to his death in A.D. 41 [e]
- Bayham Abbey [r]: A Premonstratensian religious house founded in the early 13th century and dissolved in 1525. [e]
- Furness Abbey [r]: A religous house founded by Savigniac monks in the 12th century before the order merged with the Cistercians in the 1140s. The abbey was dissolved in 1537. [e]
- Tiberius [r]: Roman Emperor from A.D. 14 to 37. [e]
- Cowdray House [r]: A 16th-century Tudor mansion badly damaged by fire in 1793. The ruins have been open to the public since the early 20th century. [e]
- Posthole [r]: A slot in the ground which held one end of a timber [e]
- Robber trench [r]: An archaeological feature created when the foundations of a stone building are dug up for reuse. [e]
- Rescue archaeology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cheddar Palace [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Malbork Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Guildford Cathedral [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Palace of Westminster [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scheduled monument [r]: Add brief definition or description
- North Leigh Roman Villa [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Teutonic Knights [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hopton Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Farnham Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lindisfarne Priory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Misenum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lay subsidy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dunstanburgh Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe Abbey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carlisle Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Aldford Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Incastellamento [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Statue of Zeus at Olympia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ostia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Orléans Cathedral [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Samian pottery [r]: Add brief definition or description
- House of the Surgeon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Amphora [r]: Add brief definition or description
