Sheila Hamilton‐dyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 228443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheila Hamilton‐dyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheila |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton‐dyer |
| SIGNATURE | DYER S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bournemouth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Excavating Alcatrazes, Santiago Island, Cape Verde
Excavations at Alcatrazes, the seat of Cape Verde's short-lived second captaincy, have exposed a Portuguese colonial settlement, demonstrating continued occupation after the relocation of its official offices. The results include insights into early Luso-African practices and the presence of West African and local-made pottery, with environmental samples 'clocking' colonial introductions
Redefining the timing and circumstances of the chicken's introduction to Europe and north-west Africa
Little is known about the early history of the chicken ( Gallus gallus domesticus ), including the timing and circumstances of its introduction into new cultural environments. To evaluate its spatio-temporal spread across Eurasia and north-west Africa, the authors radiocarbon dated 23 chicken bones from presumed early contexts. Three-quarters returned dates later than those suggested by stratigraphy, indicating the importance of direct dating. Th…
Estimating the age of domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticusL. 1758) cockerels through spur development
Determining the age of bird remains after the cessation of growth is challenging due to the absence of techniques such as tooth eruption and wear available for mammals. Without these techniques, it is difficult to reconstruct hunting strategies, husbandry regimes, and wider human-animal relationships. This paper presents a new method, developed from a collection (n = 71) of known-age specimens of domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticusL. 1758), f…
Using the Natural Environment
The article is devoted to the review of osteological materials from the excavations of Novgorod and its surroundings
Living and dying at thePortus Romae
Detecting hidden diets and disease
A multi-proxy, diachronic and spatial perspective on the urban activities within an indigenous community in medieval Riga, Latvia
The Reference Collection–Is it Dead? The Role of the Physical Reference Collection in the Digital Age
With the recent launch of online resources resulting from the AHRC Archaeological Fish Resource project in the United Kingdom (UK) and the increasing number of other online and offline digital reference materials available, it is perhaps timely to consider the relative importance of digital versus physical reference resources. There are several questions concerning location and ease of access. The physical collection may not be easy to get to, pe…
Big fish and great auks
The paper considers the assemblage of bird and fish bones from a Romano-British settlement on the Isle of Portland, on the southern coast of England. Compared with contemporary sites, the assemblage includes an unusually large number of fish bones from a wide range of marine species, including large cod, other Gadidae, several species of seabream, scad and bass. The bird assemblage includes bones of a butchered great auk. This provides the first …
Interpreting the expansion of sea fishing in medieval Europe using stable isotope analysis of archaeological cod bones
Detecting the medieval cod trade
Excavation at Manish Strand, Ensay, Western Isles
Survey and excavation at Manish Strand, Ensay, Western Isles in 1965, identified two midden deposits which date to the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Two ‘pit’ burials containing Late Bronze Age human inhumations were also discovered during the course of the excavation
Foxy in furs? A note on evidence for the probable commercial exploitation of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes L.) and other fur bearing mammals in Saxo-Norman (10th-12th century AD) Hertford, Hertfordshire,…
Making the Most of it
A combination of archaeological and palaeo-environmental field work in the Avon Levels, western England, has enabled a much better understanding to be reached of the complex Holocene sedimentation in this part of the Severn Estuary, and of the close relationship between the upper part of that sequence and opportunities for exploitation of this wetland region during the later prehistoric and Romano-British periods. This paper explores that relatio…
Continental Trade and Non-Urban Ports in Mid-Anglo-Saxon England
An area of Mid-Anglo-Saxon deposits at Sandtun in West Hythe first studied in 1947–48 by Gordon Ward was re-examined between 1993–98 during assessments made in advance of housing development and in a research excavation. The site was occupied from at least c. 700 until 850–75 with some later reuse. It lay among sand dunes formed on a sand bank near the mouth of a gradually silting inlet. A range of activities was practised by the community there,…
A life of luxury in the desert? The food and fodder supply to Mons Claudianus
This paper was published as Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1998, 11, pp. 101-116. It is also available from http://www.journalofromanarch.com/annual.html. This paper appears in the LRA with the permission of the Journal of Roman Archaeology
The domestic fowl and other birds from the Roman site of Mons Claudianus, Egypt
At the Roman quarry settlement of Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert of Egypt extreme aridity has preserved large amounts of organic matter. Amongst the faunal remains were several hundred bird bones, together with feathers and egg shell. The majority of the bird bones have been identified as domestic fowl Gallus gallus. Other species are rare: they include a few passage migrants and resident species. Finds of spurred tarsometatarsi and bones …
Excavations at St Andrews, Castlecliffe, 1988-90
Excavation to the immediate west of the castle revealed considerable evidence of occupation (probably not continuous) dating from c. 1200 to at least the mid-sixteenth century. Most of the structures uncovered were associated with the medieval burgh not the castle. The first timber buildings gave way to a fourteenth-century tannery, probably when the castle was in ruins and unoccupied. The tannery gave way to two phases of residential buildings, …
A Middle Bronze Age Round-house at Glanfeinion, near Llandinam, Powys
Small-scale rescue excavations during the course of pipeline construction have revealed a single Middle Bronze Age round-house, ring-ditch, and pits on a lowland site in the upper Severn valley with associated radiocarbon determinations which suggest a date within the range 1400–1170 cal BC. Associated finds include a large assemblage of charred naked barley and plain and decorated vessels of cordoned, bucket, and barrel urn traditions, together …
Fish in Tudor Naval Diet-with reference to the Mary Rose
Fish remains retrieved in the orlop deck and the hold of the Tudor man-of-war Mary Rose, which sank in 1545 outside Portsmouth, are evaluated with the help of documentary records concerning victualling of the English ?eet during that historical period. Though the bones testify to the almost exclusive presence of processed cod, the biased skeletal spectra and other features of the samples prevent a detailed evaluation of specimens present as well …
Excavations at Pluscarden Priory, Moray
This report, prefaced by a brief history of Pluscarden Priory, and by a description of the church, describes excavations on the western side of the Priory. Features investigated include the western end of the nave, a series of burials, a stone-lined pit containing a rich organic deposit, and walls associated with the medieval monastic complex. The excavation was arranged and funded by Historic Scotland
Lowbury Hill, Oxon
Following earthwork, geophysical andfield-walking survey, a limited evaluation was carried out by excavation of the enclosure and Anglo-Saxon barrow on Lowbury Hill, Oxon. in 1992. Evidence for prehistoric activity on the hilltop is provided by a few sherds of beaker/collared urn, and a more substantial quantity of late bronze age/early iron age pottery. The combination of the new field evidence and a reappraisal of the excavation and finds made …
Prehistoric Copper Mining on the Great Orme, Llandudno, Gwynedd
The discovery of evidence to suggest that copper ore was exploited at the Great Orme on a considerable scale in prehistory is of great significance in our understanding of the development of metalworking technology in the British Isles. In the past, the apparent absence from the archaeological record of a contemporaneous native mineral source for the production of copper and copper alloy artefacts during the Bronze Age has led to the assumption t…
Bird bone taphonomy from the inside out
Durante una visita a la isla de Skomer, en el Gales meridional (Reino Unido), durante julio de 1992, detectamos la presencia de numerosos cadáveres de pardela pichoneta, presumiblemente muertas por la acción del gavión (Larus marinus), con un peculiar patrón de daños, apreciable en las carcasas. En este trabajo describimos e ilustramos las señales de ataque en los huesos así como la secuencia de desarticulación del cuerpo. Las gaviotas realizan u…
Excavations at Rattray, Aberdeenshire. A Scottish Deserted Burgh
DOCUMENTARY sources identify the deserted settlement of Rattray, Aberdeenshire, as a royal burgh from the mid 16th century and as a probable burgh of barony from the 13th century. Excavation has revealed a more complex settlement history with a late 12th- or early 13th-century defensive motte having been replaced by a more manorial establishment which encouraged the development of an adjacent settlement between the 13th and 15th centuries. Domest…
Interpreting the expansion of sea fishing in medieval Europe using stable isotope analysis of archaeological cod bones
Detecting the medieval cod trade
Lowbury Hill, Oxon
Following earthwork, geophysical andfield-walking survey, a limited evaluation was carried out by excavation of the enclosure and Anglo-Saxon barrow on Lowbury Hill, Oxon. in 1992. Evidence for prehistoric activity on the hilltop is provided by a few sherds of beaker/collared urn, and a more substantial quantity of late bronze age/early iron age pottery. The combination of the new field evidence and a reappraisal of the excavation and finds made …
A life of luxury in the desert? The food and fodder supply to Mons Claudianus
This paper was published as Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1998, 11, pp. 101-116. It is also available from http://www.journalofromanarch.com/annual.html. This paper appears in the LRA with the permission of the Journal of Roman Archaeology
Continental Trade and Non-Urban Ports in Mid-Anglo-Saxon England
An area of Mid-Anglo-Saxon deposits at Sandtun in West Hythe first studied in 1947–48 by Gordon Ward was re-examined between 1993–98 during assessments made in advance of housing development and in a research excavation. The site was occupied from at least c. 700 until 850–75 with some later reuse. It lay among sand dunes formed on a sand bank near the mouth of a gradually silting inlet. A range of activities was practised by the community there,…
Redefining the timing and circumstances of the chicken's introduction to Europe and north-west Africa
Little is known about the early history of the chicken ( Gallus gallus domesticus ), including the timing and circumstances of its introduction into new cultural environments. To evaluate its spatio-temporal spread across Eurasia and north-west Africa, the authors radiocarbon dated 23 chicken bones from presumed early contexts. Three-quarters returned dates later than those suggested by stratigraphy, indicating the importance of direct dating. Th…
Prehistoric Copper Mining on the Great Orme, Llandudno, Gwynedd
The discovery of evidence to suggest that copper ore was exploited at the Great Orme on a considerable scale in prehistory is of great significance in our understanding of the development of metalworking technology in the British Isles. In the past, the apparent absence from the archaeological record of a contemporaneous native mineral source for the production of copper and copper alloy artefacts during the Bronze Age has led to the assumption t…
Living and dying at thePortus Romae
Excavations in the 'Scamnum Tribunorum' at Caerleon
J. David Zienkiewicz, J. Hillam, Edward Besly, B. M. Dickinson, P. V. Webster, Susan A. Fox, S. Hamilton-Dyer, A. E. Caseldine, P. A. Busby, Excavations in the 'Scamnum Tribunorum' at Caerleon: The Legionary Museum Site 1983-5, Britannia, Vol. 24 (1993), pp. 27-140
Detecting hidden diets and disease
Estimating the age of domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticusL. 1758) cockerels through spur development
Determining the age of bird remains after the cessation of growth is challenging due to the absence of techniques such as tooth eruption and wear available for mammals. Without these techniques, it is difficult to reconstruct hunting strategies, husbandry regimes, and wider human-animal relationships. This paper presents a new method, developed from a collection (n = 71) of known-age specimens of domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticusL. 1758), f…
A Middle Bronze Age Round-house at Glanfeinion, near Llandinam, Powys
Small-scale rescue excavations during the course of pipeline construction have revealed a single Middle Bronze Age round-house, ring-ditch, and pits on a lowland site in the upper Severn valley with associated radiocarbon determinations which suggest a date within the range 1400–1170 cal BC. Associated finds include a large assemblage of charred naked barley and plain and decorated vessels of cordoned, bucket, and barrel urn traditions, together …
The Reference Collection–Is it Dead? The Role of the Physical Reference Collection in the Digital Age
With the recent launch of online resources resulting from the AHRC Archaeological Fish Resource project in the United Kingdom (UK) and the increasing number of other online and offline digital reference materials available, it is perhaps timely to consider the relative importance of digital versus physical reference resources. There are several questions concerning location and ease of access. The physical collection may not be easy to get to, pe…
Excavation at Manish Strand, Ensay, Western Isles
Survey and excavation at Manish Strand, Ensay, Western Isles in 1965, identified two midden deposits which date to the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Two ‘pit’ burials containing Late Bronze Age human inhumations were also discovered during the course of the excavation
Fish in Tudor Naval Diet-with reference to the Mary Rose
Fish remains retrieved in the orlop deck and the hold of the Tudor man-of-war Mary Rose, which sank in 1545 outside Portsmouth, are evaluated with the help of documentary records concerning victualling of the English ?eet during that historical period. Though the bones testify to the almost exclusive presence of processed cod, the biased skeletal spectra and other features of the samples prevent a detailed evaluation of specimens present as well …
Excavating Alcatrazes, Santiago Island, Cape Verde
Excavations at Alcatrazes, the seat of Cape Verde's short-lived second captaincy, have exposed a Portuguese colonial settlement, demonstrating continued occupation after the relocation of its official offices. The results include insights into early Luso-African practices and the presence of West African and local-made pottery, with environmental samples 'clocking' colonial introductions
Big fish and great auks
The paper considers the assemblage of bird and fish bones from a Romano-British settlement on the Isle of Portland, on the southern coast of England. Compared with contemporary sites, the assemblage includes an unusually large number of fish bones from a wide range of marine species, including large cod, other Gadidae, several species of seabream, scad and bass. The bird assemblage includes bones of a butchered great auk. This provides the first …
Excavations at Rattray, Aberdeenshire. A Scottish Deserted Burgh
DOCUMENTARY sources identify the deserted settlement of Rattray, Aberdeenshire, as a royal burgh from the mid 16th century and as a probable burgh of barony from the 13th century. Excavation has revealed a more complex settlement history with a late 12th- or early 13th-century defensive motte having been replaced by a more manorial establishment which encouraged the development of an adjacent settlement between the 13th and 15th centuries. Domest…
Bird bone taphonomy from the inside out
Durante una visita a la isla de Skomer, en el Gales meridional (Reino Unido), durante julio de 1992, detectamos la presencia de numerosos cadáveres de pardela pichoneta, presumiblemente muertas por la acción del gavión (Larus marinus), con un peculiar patrón de daños, apreciable en las carcasas. En este trabajo describimos e ilustramos las señales de ataque en los huesos así como la secuencia de desarticulación del cuerpo. Las gaviotas realizan u…
Excavations at Rattray, Aberdeenshire. A Scottish Deserted Burgh
DOCUMENTARY sources identify the deserted settlement of Rattray, Aberdeenshire, as a royal burgh from the mid 16th century and as a probable burgh of barony from the 13th century. Excavation has revealed a more complex settlement history with a late 12th- or early 13th-century defensive motte having been replaced by a more manorial establishment which encouraged the development of an adjacent settlement between the 13th and 15th centuries. Domest…
Excavations in the 'Scamnum Tribunorum' at Caerleon
J. David Zienkiewicz, J. Hillam, Edward Besly, B. M. Dickinson, P. V. Webster, Susan A. Fox, S. Hamilton-Dyer, A. E. Caseldine, P. A. Busby, Excavations in the 'Scamnum Tribunorum' at Caerleon: The Legionary Museum Site 1983-5, Britannia, Vol. 24 (1993), pp. 27-140
Lowbury Hill, Oxon
Following earthwork, geophysical andfield-walking survey, a limited evaluation was carried out by excavation of the enclosure and Anglo-Saxon barrow on Lowbury Hill, Oxon. in 1992. Evidence for prehistoric activity on the hilltop is provided by a few sherds of beaker/collared urn, and a more substantial quantity of late bronze age/early iron age pottery. The combination of the new field evidence and a reappraisal of the excavation and finds made …
Prehistoric Copper Mining on the Great Orme, Llandudno, Gwynedd
The discovery of evidence to suggest that copper ore was exploited at the Great Orme on a considerable scale in prehistory is of great significance in our understanding of the development of metalworking technology in the British Isles. In the past, the apparent absence from the archaeological record of a contemporaneous native mineral source for the production of copper and copper alloy artefacts during the Bronze Age has led to the assumption t…
Fish in Tudor Naval Diet-with reference to the Mary Rose
Fish remains retrieved in the orlop deck and the hold of the Tudor man-of-war Mary Rose, which sank in 1545 outside Portsmouth, are evaluated with the help of documentary records concerning victualling of the English ?eet during that historical period. Though the bones testify to the almost exclusive presence of processed cod, the biased skeletal spectra and other features of the samples prevent a detailed evaluation of specimens present as well …
Excavations at Pluscarden Priory, Moray
This report, prefaced by a brief history of Pluscarden Priory, and by a description of the church, describes excavations on the western side of the Priory. Features investigated include the western end of the nave, a series of burials, a stone-lined pit containing a rich organic deposit, and walls associated with the medieval monastic complex. The excavation was arranged and funded by Historic Scotland
The domestic fowl and other birds from the Roman site of Mons Claudianus, Egypt
At the Roman quarry settlement of Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert of Egypt extreme aridity has preserved large amounts of organic matter. Amongst the faunal remains were several hundred bird bones, together with feathers and egg shell. The majority of the bird bones have been identified as domestic fowl Gallus gallus. Other species are rare: they include a few passage migrants and resident species. Finds of spurred tarsometatarsi and bones …
Excavations at St Andrews, Castlecliffe, 1988-90
Excavation to the immediate west of the castle revealed considerable evidence of occupation (probably not continuous) dating from c. 1200 to at least the mid-sixteenth century. Most of the structures uncovered were associated with the medieval burgh not the castle. The first timber buildings gave way to a fourteenth-century tannery, probably when the castle was in ruins and unoccupied. The tannery gave way to two phases of residential buildings, …
A Middle Bronze Age Round-house at Glanfeinion, near Llandinam, Powys
Small-scale rescue excavations during the course of pipeline construction have revealed a single Middle Bronze Age round-house, ring-ditch, and pits on a lowland site in the upper Severn valley with associated radiocarbon determinations which suggest a date within the range 1400–1170 cal BC. Associated finds include a large assemblage of charred naked barley and plain and decorated vessels of cordoned, bucket, and barrel urn traditions, together …
A life of luxury in the desert? The food and fodder supply to Mons Claudianus
This paper was published as Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1998, 11, pp. 101-116. It is also available from http://www.journalofromanarch.com/annual.html. This paper appears in the LRA with the permission of the Journal of Roman Archaeology
Continental Trade and Non-Urban Ports in Mid-Anglo-Saxon England
An area of Mid-Anglo-Saxon deposits at Sandtun in West Hythe first studied in 1947–48 by Gordon Ward was re-examined between 1993–98 during assessments made in advance of housing development and in a research excavation. The site was occupied from at least c. 700 until 850–75 with some later reuse. It lay among sand dunes formed on a sand bank near the mouth of a gradually silting inlet. A range of activities was practised by the community there,…
Making the Most of it
A combination of archaeological and palaeo-environmental field work in the Avon Levels, western England, has enabled a much better understanding to be reached of the complex Holocene sedimentation in this part of the Severn Estuary, and of the close relationship between the upper part of that sequence and opportunities for exploitation of this wetland region during the later prehistoric and Romano-British periods. This paper explores that relatio…
Foxy in furs? A note on evidence for the probable commercial exploitation of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes L.) and other fur bearing mammals in Saxo-Norman (10th-12th century AD) Hertford, Hertfordshire,…
Excavation at Manish Strand, Ensay, Western Isles
Survey and excavation at Manish Strand, Ensay, Western Isles in 1965, identified two midden deposits which date to the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Two ‘pit’ burials containing Late Bronze Age human inhumations were also discovered during the course of the excavation
Detecting the medieval cod trade
Interpreting the expansion of sea fishing in medieval Europe using stable isotope analysis of archaeological cod bones
Big fish and great auks
The paper considers the assemblage of bird and fish bones from a Romano-British settlement on the Isle of Portland, on the southern coast of England. Compared with contemporary sites, the assemblage includes an unusually large number of fish bones from a wide range of marine species, including large cod, other Gadidae, several species of seabream, scad and bass. The bird assemblage includes bones of a butchered great auk. This provides the first …
The Reference Collection–Is it Dead? The Role of the Physical Reference Collection in the Digital Age
With the recent launch of online resources resulting from the AHRC Archaeological Fish Resource project in the United Kingdom (UK) and the increasing number of other online and offline digital reference materials available, it is perhaps timely to consider the relative importance of digital versus physical reference resources. There are several questions concerning location and ease of access. The physical collection may not be easy to get to, pe…
A multi-proxy, diachronic and spatial perspective on the urban activities within an indigenous community in medieval Riga, Latvia
Detecting hidden diets and disease
Living and dying at thePortus Romae
Using the Natural Environment
The article is devoted to the review of osteological materials from the excavations of Novgorod and its surroundings
Estimating the age of domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticusL. 1758) cockerels through spur development
Determining the age of bird remains after the cessation of growth is challenging due to the absence of techniques such as tooth eruption and wear available for mammals. Without these techniques, it is difficult to reconstruct hunting strategies, husbandry regimes, and wider human-animal relationships. This paper presents a new method, developed from a collection (n = 71) of known-age specimens of domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticusL. 1758), f…
Redefining the timing and circumstances of the chicken's introduction to Europe and north-west Africa
Little is known about the early history of the chicken ( Gallus gallus domesticus ), including the timing and circumstances of its introduction into new cultural environments. To evaluate its spatio-temporal spread across Eurasia and north-west Africa, the authors radiocarbon dated 23 chicken bones from presumed early contexts. Three-quarters returned dates later than those suggested by stratigraphy, indicating the importance of direct dating. Th…
Archaeology (19 works) · Geography (19 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 works) · Biology (12 works) · History (11 works) · Excavation (9 works) · History (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Zoology (8 works)