Roland Spencer-Jones
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Post by Roland Spencer-Jones on Feb 11, 2021 21:24:01 GMT
I've just come away from Tanja's excellent talk tonight (to both NOSAS and ARCH simultaneously). This is the list of references she put at the end of her talk: REFERENCES: • RomankiewiczT,, Bradley R, Clarke A, 2020. 'Old Kinord, Aberdeenshire. Survey and excavation at an Iron Age settlement on Deeside', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 249, 221-247. • Romankiewicz T, 2019. 'Turf worlds: Towards understanding an understudied building material in rural Iron Age architecture - some thoughts in a Scottish context', in: Cowley D, Fernandez-Gotz M, RomankiewiczT, Wendling H (eds) Relating buildings, landscape and people in the European Iron Age. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 135-142. • RomankiewiczT, 2017. 'Turf', in: Harkness R. (ed.), Knowing From The Inside-An Unfinished Compendium of Materials. Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen, 196-201. her Edinburgh Uni home page is: www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/tanja-romankiewicz(i4b7a72f-42a5-4ic2-84ae-78o6dc247ode).html
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Post by Annette Mckittrick on Feb 12, 2021 9:24:36 GMT
Hi everyone, was Tanja’s talk recorded last night at all?
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Post by Susan Kruse on Feb 12, 2021 10:18:35 GMT
No, sorry Annette, it was not. But the references in Roland's post give some idea of what she was talking about.
I was struck again by how ephemeral the evidence is. Given our lack of building evidence in the Highlands in so many periods (especially Neolithic, Early Medieval, Medieval and earlier part of Post-Medieval), turf must be one reason. And thus the issue is how can we identify it? Does it survive better in some soils? Does waterlogging just make it mush? Is science going to be our saviour here, where micromorphology will help identify - and if so, this should be done routinely. Of course if Tanja's cycle of house recycling is the norm, we are unlikely to find much at all, and only the latest in the series. A real challenge.
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Roland Spencer-Jones
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Post by Roland Spencer-Jones on Feb 12, 2021 17:23:43 GMT
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Post by Anna Welti on Feb 14, 2021 15:20:47 GMT
Hi Tanja--sorry I couldn't make it to your talk. Do you know about the turf structures at Achlochan (Achiltibuie) described in AOC Achlochan Coastal heritage project? ACL1 At 202037 906889 is a 'low heather covered annular bank, probably indicating the presence of a turf wall' Diameter of bank is 11.5m. this was interpreted as a prehistoric hut circle. ACL2 At 201989 907009 is a cluster of 4 sub circular turf walled huts measuring 7.4m x 6.1m.These were interpreted as relating to shieling activity and the smaller size suggests a more recent date than ACL1 ACL5 At 202358 907050 are 'at ;least three' turf walled huts. Two were measurable, turf or peat walled structures, 8x6m and 6m diameter. They were interpreted as structures related to temporary seasonal shieling activity.
I will be interested in your comments. All the best Anna Welti
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Jonathan Wordsworth
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Post by Jonathan Wordsworth on Feb 15, 2021 14:32:16 GMT
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