Kate Welham
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 130853 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kate Welham |
| NOMBRES | Kate |
| APELLIDO | Welham |
| FIRMA | WELHAM K |
| AFILIACIONES | Bournemouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2057-7101 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 235 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Glassworking at Barking Abbey
Excavations conducted between 1985 and 1990 at the site of Barking Abbey yielded extensive evidence of the earliest Anglo-Saxon monastery, founded in the seventh century and subsequently sacked by the Vikings in AD 870. One of the most noteworthy finds was the base of a glass furnace, along with pits containing glass-melting crucibles and working waste. This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of this material. The circular furnace wa…
Magnetic survey of Māori stone row systems in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Highlights: Fluxgate magnetometry provides a detailed picture of Māori stone row systems, Enhanced magnetic readings from basaltic rock constituents
Minimally Invasive Approaches to the High‐Resolution Mapping of Colluvial Deposits at the Battlefield of Waterloo
Soil erosion poses a considerable threat to ecosystem services around the world. Among these, it is extremely problematic for archaeological sites, particularly in arable landscapes where accelerated soil degradation has been widely observed. Conversely, some archaeological deposits may obtain a certain level of protection when they are covered by eroded material, thereby lessening the impacts of phenomena such as plow damage or bioturbation. As …
Geophysical approaches to the archaeological prospection of early modern battlefield landscapes
This paper reviews methodological approaches in battlefield archaeology with a focus on sites of the early modern period, ca.17th-19th century.The challenges associated with the prospection of these sites partially explains the relative lack of serious research in this area until the late 20th century.While acknowledging the foundational role of conventional metal detection in overcoming these difficulties, it is argued that other less widely dep…
Contributions of Multi‐Method Geophysical Survey to Archaeological Research at the Battlefield of Waterloo
Archaeological prospection is continually expanding into new frontiers, examining increasingly large areas, diverse environmental contexts and varying site types. One area that has received only limited focus is historic battlefields. This paper presents results from large‐scale geophysical surveys (> 100 ha) at the Napoleonic battlefield of Waterloo (1815) in Belgium, using fluxgate magnetometry and frequency‐domain electromagnetic induction. De…
D printed control for commercial off-the-shelf (Cots) close-range photogrammetric reconstruction
The use of photogrammetry in archaeology and anthropology has become increasingly popular over the past decade. If the intended purpose of a three-dimensional (3D) model generated by commercial "off-the-shelf" (COTS) photographic equipment is geometric analysis or preservation by record, appropriate 3D control is recommended to improve orientation estimates and, in turn, the accuracy of the output 3D model. Further, independent measures of the qu…
How Waun Mawn stone circle was designed and built, and when the Bluestones arrived at Stonehenge
In response to Timothy Darvill's article, ‘Mythical rings?’ (this issue), which argues for an alternative interpretation of Waun Mawn circle and its relationship with Stonehenge, Parker Pearson and colleagues report new evidence from the Welsh site and elaborate on aspects of their original argument. The discovery of a hearth at the centre of the circle, as well as further features around its circumference, reinforces the authors’ original interp…
Reconstructing extraction techniques at Stonehenge’s bluestone megalith quarries in the Preseli hills of west Wales
The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales
Virtual Avebury
This paper describes and discusses creating and evaluating a virtual reality simulation of Avebury Stone Circle and Henge complex as it might have appeared and sounded circa 2300 BCE. Avebury is a Neolithic heritage site in the UK which is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and associated sites UNESCO World Heritage Site. The overall aim of the project was to better understand the sense of place and presence that visitors can experience in virtual s…
A four stage approach to community archaeology, illustrated with cases studies from Dorset, England
This article presents an approach to guide the planning, development and evaluation of community archaeology. This will assist practitioners of all forms of community archaeology by providing a pathway to ethical practice that will benefit all. The approach focuses attention on four elements that are integral to community archaeology and which should always be considered: Who (the people involved); Why (their motivation); the Archaeology (in the …
Geochemical analysis of the truncated Viking Age trading settlement of Heimdalsjordet, Norway
Single and multielement archaeological geochemistry has been applied to research and rescue projects for many decades to enhance our understanding of the past use of space. Often applied on one contextual plane, this ignores the complex palimpsest resulting from past occupation and soil processes. Furthermore, many important sites are now heavily truncated by plowing, leaving little more than negative features below the homogenized topsoil. These…
Megalith quarries for Stonehenge's bluestones
Assessing 3D metric data of digital surface models for extracting archaeological data from archive stereo-aerial photographs
The dead of Stonehenge
Stonehenge's Avenue and 'Bluestonehenge
Google Under-the-Earth
This article focuses on the use of Google Earth as a tool to facilitate public engagement and dissemination of data. It examines a case study based around one of the largest archaeological investigations of the Stonehenge landscape, the Stonehenge Riverside Project. A bespoke layer for Google Earth was developed to communicate the discoveries of the research by creating an engaging, interactive and informative multimedia application that could be…
Craig Rhos-y-felin
Geophysical Survey in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Magnetometry and Slingram electromagnetic surveys were conducted at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Songo Mnara, Tanzania, as part of a multinational programme of investigation to examine the uses of space within and outside of this stonetown. The town was a major Islamic trading port during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The surveys detected significant evidence for the containment of activities within the town walls, and previously u…
Stonehenge
This article focuses on Stonehenge, the most famous stone circle in the world. It is located within one of the thickest concentrations of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age monuments in northern Europe. The discussion begins with a review of the latest excavation campaigns that were conducted on Stonehenge, and then discusses the various monuments and structures which were erected at various periods and stages from 8000 to 1520 BC. It also describes …
Airborne spectral imagery for archaeological prospection in grassland environments-an evaluation of performance
The new generation of aerial photographers is using different wavelengths to sense archaeological features. This is effective but can be expensive. Here the authors use data already collected for environmental management purposes, and evaluate it for archaeological prospection on pasture. They explore the visibility of features in different seasons and their sensitivity to different wavelengths, using principal components analysis to seek out the…
A Comparison of Visualization Techniques for Models Created from Airborne Laser Scanned Data
The uptake of airborne laser scanned (ALS) data (commonly known as airborne lidar) for heritage landscape assessment has grown rapidly in the past decade as data have become increasingly available. Likewise there has been a recent upsurge in published techniques for modelling the ground surface from ALS data to highlight archaeological features. However, many end‐users of the data are not trained in remote sensing and visualization techniques and…
The Application of Vegetation Indices for the Prospection of Archaeological Features in Grass‐dominated Environments
The identification of archaeological remains via the capture of localized soil and vegetation change in aerial imagery is a widely used technique for the prospection of new features. The near infrared (NIR) region has been shown by environmental applications to exhibit the signs of vigour and stress better than reflectance in the visible region, and this has led to interest in the application of digital spectral data for archaeological prospectio…
Geophysical Survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania
Geophysical survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, southern Tanzania, has recovered evidence for several aspects of town layout and the use of space within the town that enhance our understandings of this important Swahili site. Although excavations in the 1960s recovered substantial monuments at this stonetown and traced a chronology for the development of the site from the eighth to the sixteenth centuries AD, the overall site layout has remained poorly und…
Durrington Walls to West Amesbury by way of Stonehenge
A new sequence of Holocene landscape change has been discovered through an investigation of sediment sequences, palaeosols, pollen and molluscan data discovered during the Stonehenge Riverside Project. The early post-glacial vegetational succession in the Avon valley at Durrington Walls was apparently slow and partial, with intermittent woodland modification and the opening-up of this landscape in the later Mesolithic and earlier Neolithic, thoug…
The age of Stonehenge
Stonehenge is the icon of British prehistory, and continues to inspire ingenious investigations and interpretations. A current campaign of research, being waged by probably the strongest archaeological team ever assembled, is focused not just on the monument, but on its landscape, its hinterland and the monuments within it. The campaign is still in progress, but the story so far is well worth reporting. Revisiting records of 100 years ago the aut…
Materializing Stonehenge
This article reviews recent interpretations of Stonehenge in terms of contrasting uses of stone and timber in the mid-3rd millennium BC. It explores the relationship of this enigmatic monument with circles of wood at nearby Durrington Walls and Woodhenge, establishing how these various monuments might have been integrated into a single scheme in which these remarkable structures were linked by artificial avenues and the natural feature of the Riv…
A Comparison of Visualization Techniques for Models Created from Airborne Laser Scanned Data
The uptake of airborne laser scanned (ALS) data (commonly known as airborne lidar) for heritage landscape assessment has grown rapidly in the past decade as data have become increasingly available. Likewise there has been a recent upsurge in published techniques for modelling the ground surface from ALS data to highlight archaeological features. However, many end‐users of the data are not trained in remote sensing and visualization techniques and…
Geophysical Survey in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Magnetometry and Slingram electromagnetic surveys were conducted at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Songo Mnara, Tanzania, as part of a multinational programme of investigation to examine the uses of space within and outside of this stonetown. The town was a major Islamic trading port during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The surveys detected significant evidence for the containment of activities within the town walls, and previously u…
Who was buried at Stonehenge
Stonehenge continues to surprise us. In this new study of the twentieth-century excavations, together with the precise radiocarbon dating that is now possible, the authors propose that the site started life in the early third millennium cal BC as a cremation cemetery within a circle of upright bluestones. Britain's most famous monument may therefore have been founded as the burial place of a leading family, possibly from Wales
Geophysical Survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania
Geophysical survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, southern Tanzania, has recovered evidence for several aspects of town layout and the use of space within the town that enhance our understandings of this important Swahili site. Although excavations in the 1960s recovered substantial monuments at this stonetown and traced a chronology for the development of the site from the eighth to the sixteenth centuries AD, the overall site layout has remained poorly und…
The dead of Stonehenge
The Application of Vegetation Indices for the Prospection of Archaeological Features in Grass‐dominated Environments
The identification of archaeological remains via the capture of localized soil and vegetation change in aerial imagery is a widely used technique for the prospection of new features. The near infrared (NIR) region has been shown by environmental applications to exhibit the signs of vigour and stress better than reflectance in the visible region, and this has led to interest in the application of digital spectral data for archaeological prospectio…
Craig Rhos-y-felin
Assessing 3D metric data of digital surface models for extracting archaeological data from archive stereo-aerial photographs
The date of the Greater Stonehenge Cursus
The Greater Cursus - 3km long and just north of Stonehenge - had been dated by a red deer antler found in its ditch in the 1940s to 2890-2460 BC. New excavations by the authors found another antler in a much tighter context, and dating a millennium earlier. It appears that the colossal cursus had already marked out the landscape before Stonehenge was erected. At that time or soon after, its lines were re-emphasised, perhaps with a row of posts in…
Geochemical analysis of the truncated Viking Age trading settlement of Heimdalsjordet, Norway
Single and multielement archaeological geochemistry has been applied to research and rescue projects for many decades to enhance our understanding of the past use of space. Often applied on one contextual plane, this ignores the complex palimpsest resulting from past occupation and soil processes. Furthermore, many important sites are now heavily truncated by plowing, leaving little more than negative features below the homogenized topsoil. These…
Durrington Walls to West Amesbury by way of Stonehenge
A new sequence of Holocene landscape change has been discovered through an investigation of sediment sequences, palaeosols, pollen and molluscan data discovered during the Stonehenge Riverside Project. The early post-glacial vegetational succession in the Avon valley at Durrington Walls was apparently slow and partial, with intermittent woodland modification and the opening-up of this landscape in the later Mesolithic and earlier Neolithic, thoug…
Megalith quarries for Stonehenge's bluestones
Stonehenge's Avenue and 'Bluestonehenge
Road my body goes
Recognizable throughout the world, the stone statues (moai) of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) represent the largest monolithic architecture produced in Polynesia. The exquisitely carved and finished head and torso of each statue testifies to a skill in stone carving and dressing unmatched throughout the Pacific. Yet, approximately one thousand 'classic' statues were produced at the quarries within a few hundred years. What was the ritual status of the …
Reconstructing extraction techniques at Stonehenge’s bluestone megalith quarries in the Preseli hills of west Wales
The Cronk yn How Stone and the Rock Art of the Isle of Man
Reappraisal of an early 20th century excavation at the Cronk yn How round barrow near Ramsey in the Isle of Man suggests that a stone pair was demolished during the 3rd millennium BC to make way for a round barrow with a single central burial. It is suggested that one of the stones from the original pair was decorated with a series of motifs before being incorporated into the barrow. Some of the motifs used find parallels amongst later Neolithic …
How Waun Mawn stone circle was designed and built, and when the Bluestones arrived at Stonehenge
In response to Timothy Darvill's article, ‘Mythical rings?’ (this issue), which argues for an alternative interpretation of Waun Mawn circle and its relationship with Stonehenge, Parker Pearson and colleagues report new evidence from the Welsh site and elaborate on aspects of their original argument. The discovery of a hearth at the centre of the circle, as well as further features around its circumference, reinforces the authors’ original interp…
The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales
The Stonehenge Riverside Project
The Stonehenge Riverside Project is a collaborative enterprise directed by six academics from five UK universities, investigating the place of Stonehenge within its contemporary landscape. In this contribution, a series of novel approaches being employed on the project are outlined, before the results of investigations at the Greater Stonehenge Cursus, Woodhenge, the Cuckoo Stone and Durrington Walls are discussed
Te Miro o'one
Historical accounts of European exploration and intervention in Polynesia during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries speak of the complex interpretative fields through which both Polynesians and Europeans came to understand each other. Here we employ the record of material practices on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to investigate the indigenous response to European contact from the island's 'discovery' by the Dutch in 1722 to the popul…
The Cronk yn How Stone and the Rock Art of the Isle of Man
Reappraisal of an early 20th century excavation at the Cronk yn How round barrow near Ramsey in the Isle of Man suggests that a stone pair was demolished during the 3rd millennium BC to make way for a round barrow with a single central burial. It is suggested that one of the stones from the original pair was decorated with a series of motifs before being incorporated into the barrow. Some of the motifs used find parallels amongst later Neolithic …
Materializing Stonehenge
This article reviews recent interpretations of Stonehenge in terms of contrasting uses of stone and timber in the mid-3rd millennium BC. It explores the relationship of this enigmatic monument with circles of wood at nearby Durrington Walls and Woodhenge, establishing how these various monuments might have been integrated into a single scheme in which these remarkable structures were linked by artificial avenues and the natural feature of the Riv…
The age of Stonehenge
Stonehenge is the icon of British prehistory, and continues to inspire ingenious investigations and interpretations. A current campaign of research, being waged by probably the strongest archaeological team ever assembled, is focused not just on the monument, but on its landscape, its hinterland and the monuments within it. The campaign is still in progress, but the story so far is well worth reporting. Revisiting records of 100 years ago the aut…
The Stonehenge Riverside Project
The Stonehenge Riverside Project is a collaborative enterprise directed by six academics from five UK universities, investigating the place of Stonehenge within its contemporary landscape. In this contribution, a series of novel approaches being employed on the project are outlined, before the results of investigations at the Greater Stonehenge Cursus, Woodhenge, the Cuckoo Stone and Durrington Walls are discussed
Beyond the picturesque
Although aerial imaging of archaeological sites has been practised for more than a century in Britain, the use of airborne remote sensing has enjoyed a recent resurgence with the increasing availability of lidar data to historic environment professionals. Archaeologists have been keen to exploit the potential of the high resolution, high accuracy digital surface models that lidar can provide and studies to date have focussed on two main research …
Who was buried at Stonehenge
Stonehenge continues to surprise us. In this new study of the twentieth-century excavations, together with the precise radiocarbon dating that is now possible, the authors propose that the site started life in the early third millennium cal BC as a cremation cemetery within a circle of upright bluestones. Britain's most famous monument may therefore have been founded as the burial place of a leading family, possibly from Wales
The date of the Greater Stonehenge Cursus
The Greater Cursus - 3km long and just north of Stonehenge - had been dated by a red deer antler found in its ditch in the 1940s to 2890-2460 BC. New excavations by the authors found another antler in a much tighter context, and dating a millennium earlier. It appears that the colossal cursus had already marked out the landscape before Stonehenge was erected. At that time or soon after, its lines were re-emphasised, perhaps with a row of posts in…
Te Miro o'one
Historical accounts of European exploration and intervention in Polynesia during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries speak of the complex interpretative fields through which both Polynesians and Europeans came to understand each other. Here we employ the record of material practices on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to investigate the indigenous response to European contact from the island's 'discovery' by the Dutch in 1722 to the popul…
Road my body goes
Recognizable throughout the world, the stone statues (moai) of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) represent the largest monolithic architecture produced in Polynesia. The exquisitely carved and finished head and torso of each statue testifies to a skill in stone carving and dressing unmatched throughout the Pacific. Yet, approximately one thousand 'classic' statues were produced at the quarries within a few hundred years. What was the ritual status of the …
A Comparison of Visualization Techniques for Models Created from Airborne Laser Scanned Data
The uptake of airborne laser scanned (ALS) data (commonly known as airborne lidar) for heritage landscape assessment has grown rapidly in the past decade as data have become increasingly available. Likewise there has been a recent upsurge in published techniques for modelling the ground surface from ALS data to highlight archaeological features. However, many end‐users of the data are not trained in remote sensing and visualization techniques and…
The Application of Vegetation Indices for the Prospection of Archaeological Features in Grass‐dominated Environments
The identification of archaeological remains via the capture of localized soil and vegetation change in aerial imagery is a widely used technique for the prospection of new features. The near infrared (NIR) region has been shown by environmental applications to exhibit the signs of vigour and stress better than reflectance in the visible region, and this has led to interest in the application of digital spectral data for archaeological prospectio…
Geophysical Survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania
Geophysical survey at Kilwa Kisiwani, southern Tanzania, has recovered evidence for several aspects of town layout and the use of space within the town that enhance our understandings of this important Swahili site. Although excavations in the 1960s recovered substantial monuments at this stonetown and traced a chronology for the development of the site from the eighth to the sixteenth centuries AD, the overall site layout has remained poorly und…
Durrington Walls to West Amesbury by way of Stonehenge
A new sequence of Holocene landscape change has been discovered through an investigation of sediment sequences, palaeosols, pollen and molluscan data discovered during the Stonehenge Riverside Project. The early post-glacial vegetational succession in the Avon valley at Durrington Walls was apparently slow and partial, with intermittent woodland modification and the opening-up of this landscape in the later Mesolithic and earlier Neolithic, thoug…
Stonehenge
This article focuses on Stonehenge, the most famous stone circle in the world. It is located within one of the thickest concentrations of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age monuments in northern Europe. The discussion begins with a review of the latest excavation campaigns that were conducted on Stonehenge, and then discusses the various monuments and structures which were erected at various periods and stages from 8000 to 1520 BC. It also describes …
Airborne spectral imagery for archaeological prospection in grassland environments-an evaluation of performance
The new generation of aerial photographers is using different wavelengths to sense archaeological features. This is effective but can be expensive. Here the authors use data already collected for environmental management purposes, and evaluate it for archaeological prospection on pasture. They explore the visibility of features in different seasons and their sensitivity to different wavelengths, using principal components analysis to seek out the…
Geophysical Survey in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Magnetometry and Slingram electromagnetic surveys were conducted at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Songo Mnara, Tanzania, as part of a multinational programme of investigation to examine the uses of space within and outside of this stonetown. The town was a major Islamic trading port during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The surveys detected significant evidence for the containment of activities within the town walls, and previously u…
Google Under-the-Earth
This article focuses on the use of Google Earth as a tool to facilitate public engagement and dissemination of data. It examines a case study based around one of the largest archaeological investigations of the Stonehenge landscape, the Stonehenge Riverside Project. A bespoke layer for Google Earth was developed to communicate the discoveries of the research by creating an engaging, interactive and informative multimedia application that could be…
Craig Rhos-y-felin
Assessing 3D metric data of digital surface models for extracting archaeological data from archive stereo-aerial photographs
The dead of Stonehenge
Stonehenge's Avenue and 'Bluestonehenge
Megalith quarries for Stonehenge's bluestones
Virtual Avebury
This paper describes and discusses creating and evaluating a virtual reality simulation of Avebury Stone Circle and Henge complex as it might have appeared and sounded circa 2300 BCE. Avebury is a Neolithic heritage site in the UK which is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and associated sites UNESCO World Heritage Site. The overall aim of the project was to better understand the sense of place and presence that visitors can experience in virtual s…
A four stage approach to community archaeology, illustrated with cases studies from Dorset, England
This article presents an approach to guide the planning, development and evaluation of community archaeology. This will assist practitioners of all forms of community archaeology by providing a pathway to ethical practice that will benefit all. The approach focuses attention on four elements that are integral to community archaeology and which should always be considered: Who (the people involved); Why (their motivation); the Archaeology (in the …
Geochemical analysis of the truncated Viking Age trading settlement of Heimdalsjordet, Norway
Single and multielement archaeological geochemistry has been applied to research and rescue projects for many decades to enhance our understanding of the past use of space. Often applied on one contextual plane, this ignores the complex palimpsest resulting from past occupation and soil processes. Furthermore, many important sites are now heavily truncated by plowing, leaving little more than negative features below the homogenized topsoil. These…
Archaeology (27 obras) · Geography (21 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 obras) · History (18 obras) · Archaeological Research and Protection (12 obras) · Geology (10 obras) · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (9 obras) · Ancient history (9 obras) · Excavation (9 obras) · History (9 obras)