South Cadbury Environs Project
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Grant Holder:
Professor Gary Lock
The project is a multiperiod survey of the landscape within a 64 sq km centred on the Iron Age and Post Roman hillfort of Cadbury Castle, Somerset. Sampling localities and transects cover approximately 11 sq km of the study area.
The principal survey techniques have been gradiometry, test and shovel pitting, the first two applied uniformly over all target areas, the latter were soil conditions are suitable. Excavation is then used to test the results and to further the narrative objectives.
Overlays of the geophysical data are being entered into a GIS programme on which artefact distributions are superimposed. AHRC-funded fieldwork is now finished and the final report is being written. Interim results are on the project website.
| Project start date: 2004-04 | Project end date: 2008-03 |
Subject domains:
Era(s):
Country/region(s):
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d modelling - raster | Data structuring and enhancement |
| 2d modelling - vector | Data structuring and enhancement |
| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| 3d modelling - vector | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Collating | Data analysis |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Content-based image retrieval | Data analysis |
| Data modelling | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Geo-referencing and projection | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Geophysical survey | Data capture |
| Image feature measurement | Data analysis |
| Overlaying | Data analysis |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Visualisation | Data analysis |
| Spatial | Content types |
| Spatial data analysis | Data analysis |
| archaeology | Discipline |
| text | Content types |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Spatial, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Source material used:
Geophyiscal data collected by the project and artefacts accumulated through test and shovel pitting and excavation.
Digital resource created:
Geophysical survey plots in Geoplot 3.0. Extensive files of artefact data in Exel and Access. Bitmaps DBase in ArcView. Website hosted by Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
Access to digital resource:
Restricted Access
Data Formats created:
ArcView, Bitmap File (BMP), JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), Microsoft Excel Worksheet (XLS), Microsoft Word Document (DOC)
Publications:
Tabor, Richard, ed. The South Cadbury Environs Project: fieldwork report 2002-03. Bristol: Centre for the Historic Environment, University of Bristol, 2004.
Tabor, Richard, ed. The South Cadbury Environs Project: fieldwork report 1998-2001. Bristol: Centre for the Historic Environment, University of Bristol, 2002.
Tabor, Richard. Regional Perspectives in Archaeology: from strategy to narrative. Oxford: BAR IS 1203, 2004.
Tabor, Richard and Paul Johnson. "Sigwells, Somerset, England: regional applciation and interpretation of geophysical survey." Antiquity 74 (2000): 319-25.
Tabor, Richard. "Cadbury Castle: focusing the landscape." In Somerset Archaeology: Papers to mark 150 years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, edited by Chris Webster. Taunton: Somerset County Council, 2000.
Coles, J., P. Leach, S. Minnitt, R. Tabor and A. Wilson. "A later Bronze Age shield from South Cadbury, Somerset, England." Antiquity 73 (1999): 33-48.
Tabor, Richard, ed. The South Cadbury Environs Project: fieldwork report 1998-2001. Bristol: Centre for the Historic Environment, University of Bristol, 2002.
Tabor, Richard. Regional Perspectives in Archaeology: from strategy to narrative. Oxford: BAR IS 1203, 2004.
Tabor, Richard and Paul Johnson. "Sigwells, Somerset, England: regional applciation and interpretation of geophysical survey." Antiquity 74 (2000): 319-25.
Tabor, Richard. "Cadbury Castle: focusing the landscape." In Somerset Archaeology: Papers to mark 150 years of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, edited by Chris Webster. Taunton: Somerset County Council, 2000.
Coles, J., P. Leach, S. Minnitt, R. Tabor and A. Wilson. "A later Bronze Age shield from South Cadbury, Somerset, England." Antiquity 73 (1999): 33-48.
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| University of Oxford |
| University of Bristol |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Gary Lock; Dr Michael Costen; Mr Mark Corney; Dr Richard Tabor |
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| Other staff: | Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: |
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| Author(s) of record | Gary Lock |
| Title | South Cadbury Environs Project |
| Record created | 2005-11-07 |
| Record updated | 2010-06-30 09:54 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2223 |
| Citation of record | Gary Lock: South Cadbury Environs Project. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2223> created: 2005-11-07, last updated 2010-06-30 09:54 |