Roger White

Roger White
University of Birmingham · Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology

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Introduction
Roger White currently works at the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham. Roger does research in History of Art, Cultural History and Archaeology. Their current project is 'Wroxeter Hinterland Project'.
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Wenzhou Alum Mine in Fanshan Town, Zhejiang Province (China), operated from the middle of the 14th century to December 2017 and, as an important centre of the Chinese alum industry for more than 600 years, witnessed both change and continuity in the development of alum mining and refining technology. Alum was produced in Wenzhou from the alunite or...
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The title of this paper refers, obliquely, to Robin Osborne’s (1987) influential book on the Greek city and its countryside “Classical Landscape with Figures”. ' We start with this reference, in part because much of the content of this paper will refer to issues relating to the interpretation of archaeological land/cityscapes, but also because Osbo...
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The heritage offer at Ironbridge is long established: for over 50 years, the story has been told of innovation and technological development in the Ironbridge Gorge at the beginning of the industrial revolution. That story achieved even higher recognition over 25 years ago when the area was awarded World Heritage Site status, recognising its outsta...
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Umm Qais is one of the most significant archaeological tourist attractions in Jordan besides Petra and Jerash. It is also popular with locals due to its rich diversity of natural history features and landscapes. However, there has been no detailed study of approaches to visitor management at the site. This paper investigates the visitor management...
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The five Viking-Age carved stone cross fragments located at the Church of St Mary and St Helen at Neston, Chester and West Cheshire form a distinctive cluster of monuments attesting to Viking settlement in the tenth century. A project begun in 2008 proposed to use laser technology to reconstruct one cross completely and create a resin replica. The...
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The transition of Britain from being a province within the Roman Empire to the Kingdoms of Medieval England is one that is dominated in the public imagination by the historical account written by Bede. This tells us of how the Anglo‐Saxons were invited into Britain, settling in specific territories. This largely accords with the archaeological reco...
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Wilderspool and Holditch. Roman Boom-Towns on the ‘Road North’. By RogersI.M. and GarnerD.J.. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 449/Gifford Archaeological Monographs 2. Archaeopress, Oxford, 2007. Pp. xi + 143, illus. Price: £30.00. isbn978 1 40730 147 1. - Volume 41 - Roger White
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The hill fort of Bury Walls in Shropshire has been surveyed extensively by topographical and geophysical methods with the aims of recovering evidence for occupation, characterising the use of the hill fort and clarifying the chronological development of the site. Topographic surveys delineated the current extent of the fort and its massive fortific...
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Five geophysical survey techniques were used to investigate the infilled section of the outer ditch at the Iron Age hill fort of Bury Walls, Shropshire. The techniques were resistance mapping and four profiling methods: resistivity sounding, ground-penetrating radar (GPR), P-wave seismic refraction and S-wave seismic refraction. The ditch was clear...
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This paper provides the overall archaeological context of a geophysical survey carried out at the Roman town at Wroxeter, including both excavation carried out within the town and survey and excavation within its hinterland. The geophysical survey at Wroxeter was carried out within the remit of the Wroxeter Hinterland Project. The archaeological ra...
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Over a number of field sessions, the Roman city of Wroxeter was surveyed using fluxgate gradiometers. In the paper the authors describe the strategy for assessing a large site, approximately 0.7 km2 in size, as well as presenting the graphical results. Prior to the survey it was believed that Wroxeter was a ‘garden city’ with areas of open space in...

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