Great Moor Farm,Sowton, Devon: the recording and excavation of a 16th- and 17th-century farmhouse

SUMMARY: The demolished Great Moor Farm provided a unique opportunity to study the development of a Devon farmhouse combining detailed fabric recording, excavation and documentary research. The building had a complex structural history, and neither the recording of the standing structure nor the excavation on its own provided sufficient information for the confident identification of the sequence of phases and their dating. The development of the house can be followed from its original construction in the early 16th century, as it was adapted, improved and enlarged following the prevailing fashions of comfort and style, to become a relatively large and comfortable house by c. 1700. Its growth coincided with a prosperous period for Devon farmers and with the evolution of the medieval to the modern house.     

重庆奉节赵家湾墓地2004年发掘简报

2004年重庆奉节赵家湾墓地共发掘墓葬20座,出土各类文物300余件.其中东汉墓葬15座,包括砖室墓和崖墓,随葬品以陶器和五铢钱为主,年代不早于东汉中期:蜀汉砖室墓1座,延续了东汉晚期墓葬风格;东晋砖室墓1座,出土大量精美青瓷器,文化面貌与同时期长江中下游地区趋同;明代墓葬3座,均为土坑墓.该墓地时间序列完整,出土文物丰富,为我们研究峡江地区考古文化的发展,提供了重要的实物证据.     

The Birmingham Jewellery Quarter: A Marshallian Industrial District

The paper presents the findings of a study on the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter at its zenith from 1880 to 1920. Drawing on a unique database covering four decades and secondary data, it has been possible to map out the organization of production, the degree of firms' specializations, and extent of production and social networking within the Quarter. Such evidence seems to suggest that the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter was a Marshallian industrial district at the turn of the nineteenth century.     

The Structure of the Timber Kitchen at Weoley Castle,Birmingham

A CEMETERY uncovered during roadworks at High Wycombe in ig86 confirmed the location of the medieval hospital of St Margaret. Examination of the skeletal remains suggests that several of the individuals excavated had suffered from leprosy.     

Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party

Spurgeon has provided the academic world with a superb exampleof how oral history has the power not only to supplement thehistorical and academic record but also to enlarge our understandingof a topic. These days, few know of the esoteric folklore genre,the play party, and those who do might well assume that it hasbeen defunct for several decades. Even nineteenth- to earlytwentieth-century folklorists wrote about it as an old and dyingform of childhood recreation. Vance Randolph wrote some     

Aura borealis: images,perceptions, and realities of the european north

Encountering the North. Cultural Geography, International Relations and Northern Landscapes. Edited by Frank Möller and Samu Pehkonen (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2003), xiii?+?294 pp. $89.95/50.00 cloth.

The Nordic Peace. Edited by Clive Archer and Pertti Joenniemi (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2003), x?+?217 pp. $79.95/46.50 cloth.

Sweden and the “Third Way”: A Macroeconomic Evaluation. By Philip Whyman (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2003), xi?+?251 pp. $94.95/52.50 cloth.     

The excavation of a late-seventeenth-century water-mill at Caldecotte,Bow Brickhill,Bucks

The excavation of a watermill at Caldecotte, on the River Ouzel in the new city of Milton Keynes, Bucks., is described. It was probably a double mill with a central water- house containing two wheels separated by a sluice. On either side of the waterhouse were the mills and to the west a miller's house. Parallels from the lower Ouzel valley and the Netherlands are described.

The excavation was directed and the report written by Martin Petchey, with the exception of the section reconstructing the mills at Willen and Caldecote, Newport Pagnell, which is by Brian Giggins.     

郑州巩义涉村宋代壁画墓发掘简报

2008年发掘的巩义涉村宋代壁画墓墓室为圆形,穹隆顶,中部为六个铺作,下部被六个倚柱分成六个壁面,六个壁面靠近阑额的地方绘24幅行孝图,下部绘砖砌家具与生活壁画。此墓的发掘对于研究宋代壁画中的行孝图有着重要的意义。