Three Saxo-Norman Tenements in Durham City

Carver, Martin; Appleyard, H. M.; Crowfoot, Elisabeth; Donaldson, Alison M; Kenward, Harry; Rackham, James; Thornton, John

doi:10.1080/00766097.1979.11735413

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“…The rather simple wattle and daub houses common on medieval sites (eg Durham 1977;Carver 1979) consist of heavy baulks functioning as sillbeams, angleposts and other roof supports, with large numbers of small (c 50 mm diameter) sails from the wattle screens, and masses of wattles. This suggests the pattern illustrated in fig 3, bottom right (based on work now in progress from the Kirk Close excavations, Perth).…”

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Analytical techniques for the investigation of non-artefactual wood from prehistoric and medieval sites

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Barber²

1982

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Analytical techniques for the investigation of non-artefactual wood from prehistoric and medieval sites

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Barber²

1982

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“…Historically, these can be traced back to two schools of practice based respectively upon the Department of Urban Archaeology's 'single context recording', and the Central Excavation Unit's 'feature-group' approach respectively, both developed in the 1970s with the professionalisation of archaeology during this period (see Hammer 2002;Roskams 2001;Thorpe 2012). The latter formed the basis for Carver's (1979;1990, 132) development of the 'feature sequence diagram' (Carver 1990, 132) that sought to incorporate higher order interpretative groups of strata in the field. Carver's approach allocates features which are grouped with their own numbering system and stand alone from the stratigraphic unit.…”

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The Matrix: connecting and re-using digital records and archives of archaeological investigations

May¹,

Taylor²

2023

Internet Archaeol.

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Stratigraphic data and relationships form the backbone of all the related archaeological records from each excavated site and are essential for integrated analysis, wider synthesis and accessible archiving of the growing body of archaeological data and reports generated through the commercial archaeological sector in the UK and internationally. The stratigraphic record, usually in the form of a stratigraphic matrix, with associated relationships and data, acts as a primary, if not the primary 'evidence' for how, and in what order, the site was excavated. As such the stratigraphic matrix can be the key mechanism that enables anyone less familiar with the site, to re-visit and re-use the excavation records, understand what data is most relevant for addressing certain research questions, or problems encountered, and piece together the underlying details of how the excavator(s) arrived at their interpretations. However such records are often only held on paper or as scanned image copies (as PDFs) of matrix diagrams that cannot easily be re-used with all the associated data. This article presents outcomes from The Matrix project (AHRC AH/T002093/1) that address the current problems caused by the lack of standardized approaches to digital archiving of archaeological data using the case study of stratigraphic and phasing data.

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“…Perhaps the most widely used sequence diagram is produced by the Harris Matrix, which is described by its creator as a method by which the order of the deposition of the layers and the creation of feature interfaces through the course of time on an archaeological site can be diagrammatically expressed in very simple terms (Harris, 1989, 34). This focus on the order of deposition to the exclusion of other attributes distinguishes the Harris Matrix from sequence diagrams which augment the order of deposition with information about duration (Dalland, 1984;Carver, 1979), and it is this sense in which sequence diagram is used here.…”

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Archaeological sequence diagrams and Bayesian chronological models

Dye

Buck

2015

Journal of Archaeological Science

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This paper develops directed graph representations for a class of archaeological sequence diagrams, such as the Harris Matrix, that do not include information on duration. These "stratigraphic directed graphs" differ from previous software implementations of the Harris Matrix, which employ a mix of directed graph and other data structures and algorithms. A "chronological directed graph" to represent the relationships in a Bayesian chronological model that correspond to the possibilities inherent in a sequence diagram, and an algorithm to map a stratigraphic directed graph to a chronological directed graph are proposed and illustrated with an example. These results are intended to be a proof of concept for the design of a front-end for Bayesian calibration software that is based directly on the archaeological stratigrapher's identification of contexts, observations of stratigraphic relationships, inferences concerning parts of once-whole contexts, and selection of materials for radiocarbon dating.

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Three Saxo-Norman Tenements in Durham City

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

Analytical techniques for the investigation of non-artefactual wood from prehistoric and medieval sites

Analytical techniques for the investigation of non-artefactual wood from prehistoric and medieval sites

The Matrix: connecting and re-using digital records and archives of archaeological investigations

Archaeological sequence diagrams and Bayesian chronological models

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