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  Iron Age smelting demonstration

  January 23, 2012 / Education, Experimental
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  Experimental archaeologist Jake Keen demonstrates some of the concepts of iron smelting in a bloomery furnace using techniques believed to have been used during the British Iron Age. The demonstration was part of Wessex Archaeology’s annual practical archaeology course in 2004 Search terms:demir eritmedemirin eritilmesievde demir eritmethuis ijzer smelteniron age smeltingsmelting iron iron agekömürlüocak demir ergitmekayada eritme demirjake keeneisenzeitliche verhüttung

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  3D Technologies in Archaeology

  December 30, 2011 / Featured, Technology
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  This is a compilation of some of our other videos, and some new material, put together for the Council for British Archaeology Wessex regional conference, held at the Ordnance Survey headquarters in Southampton, UK. In this short film, you can see the Stonehenge landscape in 3D, view some 3D models of bones from the Amesbury Archer’s skeleton, scans of WWI and WWII graffiti, and a new cut of the Seabed Prehistory archaeological reconstruction. The video was put together by Tom [...]

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  Winchester Excavation, October 2011

  October 12, 2011 / Excavation
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  An archaeological excavation by Wessex Archaeology discovered part of early Winchester including land divisions and a house and even  found a silver coin dating back to the time of King Alfred. Search terms:winchester excavationwinchester excavations facebook

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  Lasers and Light

  October 10, 2008 / Technology
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  LiDAR uses laser survey equipment mounted in an aeroplane to record the surface of the land below in three dimensions. The animation focuses on a field system in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. Barely visible on the ground and in aerial photography, the features of the field system are revealed when a low level light is applied to the virtual landscape, throwing the virtual landscape into relief. The light source circles the earthworks, so their extent can be seen from [...]

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  Opening a Roman Coffin – Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, UK

  January 11, 2008 / Excavation, Featured, News
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  Wessex Archaeology Remarkable Roman burial has been found at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, UK. When we lifted the lid off a three tonne stone coffin we were surprised to discover that the coffin had not filled with soil. Instead, we found ourselves looking down on the skeleton of a woman who was cradling a young child in her arms. Find out more at http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/wiltshire/boscombe/preserved-roman-remai… Search terms:roman coffin in egyptボスコムダウン英国 棺桶arkeoloji haberleriboscombe down romanseski roma tabutuUK ウィルトシャー州ローマ 棺英国　棺

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  A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape

  November 10, 2007 / Featured, Technology
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  This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey (airborne 3D scanning). Millions of measurements were taken across the landscape, and here they have been turned into a ‘solid’ computer model to show how well the archaeology is recorded by this method. Prehistoric burial mounds (barrows), the great Cursus (a 2km Neolithic monument), the Bronze Age Avenue which links Stonehenge to the River Avon, and other henges such as Woodhenge and Durrington Walls are all clearly [...]

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