J F S Stone
Biographic Data
| ID | 324808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J F S Stone |
| GIVEN NAMES | J F S |
| FAMILY NAME | Stone |
| SIGNATURE | STONE J F S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Computer Applications in Archaeology: Graphics, Database, and Image Processing in a Multimedia Field-to-Publication Data Management System
The Archaeological Computing Laboratory (ACL), a subdivision of the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL) in the Computer Science Department at Montana State University, specializes in archaeological applications of computer technology. Four areas of research and development will be discussed (1) an integrated multimedia field-to-publication data management system, (2) a relational database, (3) image processing, and (4) graphics applications K…
The use and distribution of Faience in the Ancient East and Prehistoric Europe
Twenty years have elapsed since H. C. Beck and the present writer published a preliminary paper on the origin of British faience beads with special reference to those of the segmented variety and, except for the discovery and recognition of many new specimens over much wider areas it may be said that nothing has emerged to alter materially the general conclusions there enunciated that an Egyptian origin was the most likely for a number of the bea…
Durrington Walls, Wiltshire: Recent excavations at a ceremonial site of the early second millennium B.C
The site known as Durrington Walls, in the parish of Durrington, Wiltshire (Nat. Grid Ref. 41/150437), has been known as an antiquity since the early nineteenth century, when its bank and ditch was recorded by Colt Hoare ( Anc. Wilts. (1812), i, 169) and included by him in his map of the Stonehenge region. The nature of this vast enclosure, some 1,720 by 1,470 ft. in dimensions, with an average diameter of 1,600 ft., and an originally huge intern…
The Excavation of two additional holes at Stonehenge, 1950, and new evidence for the date of the Monument
Among the most remarkable discoveries made in the course of the Society's excavations at Stonehenge in 1919–26 was the discovery of a series of small pits set in a circle immediately within the bank of the surrounding earthwork. Some of these had left slight surface depressions which had been recorded by John Aubrey on his plan of Stonehenge made in 1666, and the pits were appropriately named the Aubrey Holes in recognition of this sound piece of…
Third Report of the Sub-Committee of the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries on the Petrological Identification of Stone Axes
Fourteen years have elapsed since the appointment of the sub-committee in 1936 to consider the petrological identification of stone implements with special reference to the area covered by the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries; and two reports have been published in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , VII (1941), 50 and XIII (1947), 47, outlining briefly the results of its work. Considerable progress has been made since th…
A Necklace from a Barrow in North Molton parish, North Devon
In examining some material in the reserves of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, I noticed a small necklace which includes beads of blue faience (pl. vii a ). The entry in the museum's Accessions Book stated that it had been presented in 1917 by Mr. A. Amos, ‘from a barrow on Beacon Hill, North Molton’, and that it had been ‘found with cremated bones, an urn and flint implements’. After many difficulties I succeeded, with the help of Mr. R…
An Axe-hammer from Fifield Bavant, Wilts., and the Exploitation of Preselite
The axe-hammer illustrated (pl. xviii b and fig. 1) was found by Mr. J. E. Best in 1944 on the surface of Fifield Down about one mile north-west of Fifield Bavant, south Wilts. Unfortunately for dating purposes it was not associated with other objects, but nevertheless is of great interest in that it is made of spotted dolerite or preselite from the Presely mountains, Pembrokeshire, and is of a type very rarely found in the southern lowlands. For…
Some Grooved Ware Pottery from the Woodhenge area
In a recent article a description was given of the contents of two pits found by Mr A. St. J. Booth in his garden at Woodlands, Countess Road, Amesbury within 300 yards of the centre of Woodhenge. These pits produced a remarkable assemblage of objects of neolithic B Grooved Ware type, and the apparent care which had been expended upon their deliberate burial induced the suggestion that they represented the sacred or hallowed relics of feasts held…
Vases Supports
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A second fixed point in the Chronology of the Harappa Culture
Fixed points in the chronology of the Harappa Culture are not abundant and such as exist tend rather to emphasize the earlier phases of that remarkable civilization. Evidence for close contact with Akkad about 2300 B.C., based primarily on stamp-seals, has been the subject of review by Piggott, and much clearer light has been forthcoming as a result of excavations at Harappa by the Archaeological Survey of India during 1946 under the direction of…
A Beaker Interment on Stockbridge Down, Hampshire, and its Cultural Connexions
The archaeology of Stockbridge Down owes much to the interest of the late Colonel Sir Norman Gray Hill, Bt., M.C., M.B., who was killed in an aeroplane accident in 1944. This piece of downland, recently presented to the National Trust by Miss Rosalind Hill, has, as a result, yielded information of outstanding interest, and it remains for the present writer, who was associated with the work, to record his last find, a Beaker burial at the spot mar…
Part IThe Prehistoric Ages
Second Report of the Sub-Committee of the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries on the Petrological Identification of Stone Axes
The first report of the Sub-Committee of the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries on the petrological identification of stone axes was published in the Proceedings for 1941, vol. VII, 50–72. Appreciative comments concerning it were published in Museums Journal , vol. 42, 34, and Nature , 1942, 149, 275. Membership of the Sub-Committee remains unchanged apart from the withdrawal of Dr R. Churchill Blackie and the addition of Mrs D. P. …
The Deverel-Rimbury Settlement on Thorny Down, Winterbourne Gunner, S. Wilts
A preliminary report on the discovery and partial excavation during 1936 of the Late Bronze Age farmstead or settlement site on Thorny Down, Winterbourne Gunner, in South Wiltshire has already been published. Sufficient material was there recorded to prove beyond question the approximate date of the site. This was assigned to phase B of the Late Bronze Age ( c . 750 B.C.), the culture being that of the Deverel–Rimbury immigrants which for conveni…
A Round Barrow on Stockbridge Down, Hampshire
In a recent report ( Proc. Prehist. Soc. iv, 1938, 249) we described the contents of a pit situated on Stockbridge Down on the ridge that runs south-west from Woolbury Ring Camp. This pit, the site of which is marked as X on the sketch-map which accompanies the present paper (fig. 1), contained an occupation or refuse layer of Middle Bronze Age date, the rarity of which warranted in our opinion examination of anything in the immediate vicinity th…
A Middle Bronze Age Site at Stockbridge, Hampshire
During recent excavations on Stockbridge Down a large sherd of Middle Bronze Age ware was found lying on a rabbit scrape on the open downland. The actual site of the find and of the excavation to be described is marked as X on the sketch map which accompanies this report (fig. 1), and which is based upon the excellent aerial photograph of the site published and described by O. G. S. Crawford and A. Keiller. Little description of this ridge of the…
VIII.— Faience Beads of the British Bronze Age
Of the many objects of the Bronze Age which have defied decay in these Islands, few can rank in interest and importance with a number of small coloured beads which have been found associated with barrow burials and in other contexts. So well known are they, that it seems almost needless to add that their importance lies in the possibility of using them as datum points in the Absolute Chronology of this period. The question of their origin is thus…
A Case of Bronze Age Cephalotaphy on Easton Down in Wiltshire
Third Report of the Sub-Committee of the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries on the Petrological Identification of Stone Axes
Fourteen years have elapsed since the appointment of the sub-committee in 1936 to consider the petrological identification of stone implements with special reference to the area covered by the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries; and two reports have been published in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , VII (1941), 50 and XIII (1947), 47, outlining briefly the results of its work. Considerable progress has been made since th…
Durrington Walls, Wiltshire: Recent excavations at a ceremonial site of the early second millennium B.C
The site known as Durrington Walls, in the parish of Durrington, Wiltshire (Nat. Grid Ref. 41/150437), has been known as an antiquity since the early nineteenth century, when its bank and ditch was recorded by Colt Hoare ( Anc. Wilts. (1812), i, 169) and included by him in his map of the Stonehenge region. The nature of this vast enclosure, some 1,720 by 1,470 ft. in dimensions, with an average diameter of 1,600 ft., and an originally huge intern…
The use and distribution of Faience in the Ancient East and Prehistoric Europe
Twenty years have elapsed since H. C. Beck and the present writer published a preliminary paper on the origin of British faience beads with special reference to those of the segmented variety and, except for the discovery and recognition of many new specimens over much wider areas it may be said that nothing has emerged to alter materially the general conclusions there enunciated that an Egyptian origin was the most likely for a number of the bea…
Second Report of the Sub-Committee of the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries on the Petrological Identification of Stone Axes
The first report of the Sub-Committee of the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries on the petrological identification of stone axes was published in the Proceedings for 1941, vol. VII, 50–72. Appreciative comments concerning it were published in Museums Journal , vol. 42, 34, and Nature , 1942, 149, 275. Membership of the Sub-Committee remains unchanged apart from the withdrawal of Dr R. Churchill Blackie and the addition of Mrs D. P. …
The Deverel-Rimbury Settlement on Thorny Down, Winterbourne Gunner, S. Wilts
A preliminary report on the discovery and partial excavation during 1936 of the Late Bronze Age farmstead or settlement site on Thorny Down, Winterbourne Gunner, in South Wiltshire has already been published. Sufficient material was there recorded to prove beyond question the approximate date of the site. This was assigned to phase B of the Late Bronze Age ( c . 750 B.C.), the culture being that of the Deverel–Rimbury immigrants which for conveni…
An Axe-hammer from Fifield Bavant, Wilts., and the Exploitation of Preselite
The axe-hammer illustrated (pl. xviii b and fig. 1) was found by Mr. J. E. Best in 1944 on the surface of Fifield Down about one mile north-west of Fifield Bavant, south Wilts. Unfortunately for dating purposes it was not associated with other objects, but nevertheless is of great interest in that it is made of spotted dolerite or preselite from the Presely mountains, Pembrokeshire, and is of a type very rarely found in the southern lowlands. For…
A Necklace from a Barrow in North Molton parish, North Devon
In examining some material in the reserves of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, I noticed a small necklace which includes beads of blue faience (pl. vii a ). The entry in the museum's Accessions Book stated that it had been presented in 1917 by Mr. A. Amos, ‘from a barrow on Beacon Hill, North Molton’, and that it had been ‘found with cremated bones, an urn and flint implements’. After many difficulties I succeeded, with the help of Mr. R…
Some Grooved Ware Pottery from the Woodhenge area
In a recent article a description was given of the contents of two pits found by Mr A. St. J. Booth in his garden at Woodlands, Countess Road, Amesbury within 300 yards of the centre of Woodhenge. These pits produced a remarkable assemblage of objects of neolithic B Grooved Ware type, and the apparent care which had been expended upon their deliberate burial induced the suggestion that they represented the sacred or hallowed relics of feasts held…
A Round Barrow on Stockbridge Down, Hampshire
In a recent report ( Proc. Prehist. Soc. iv, 1938, 249) we described the contents of a pit situated on Stockbridge Down on the ridge that runs south-west from Woolbury Ring Camp. This pit, the site of which is marked as X on the sketch-map which accompanies the present paper (fig. 1), contained an occupation or refuse layer of Middle Bronze Age date, the rarity of which warranted in our opinion examination of anything in the immediate vicinity th…
The Excavation of two additional holes at Stonehenge, 1950, and new evidence for the date of the Monument
Among the most remarkable discoveries made in the course of the Society's excavations at Stonehenge in 1919–26 was the discovery of a series of small pits set in a circle immediately within the bank of the surrounding earthwork. Some of these had left slight surface depressions which had been recorded by John Aubrey on his plan of Stonehenge made in 1666, and the pits were appropriately named the Aubrey Holes in recognition of this sound piece of…
A second fixed point in the Chronology of the Harappa Culture
Fixed points in the chronology of the Harappa Culture are not abundant and such as exist tend rather to emphasize the earlier phases of that remarkable civilization. Evidence for close contact with Akkad about 2300 B.C., based primarily on stamp-seals, has been the subject of review by Piggott, and much clearer light has been forthcoming as a result of excavations at Harappa by the Archaeological Survey of India during 1946 under the direction of…
Computer Applications in Archaeology: Graphics, Database, and Image Processing in a Multimedia Field-to-Publication Data Management System
The Archaeological Computing Laboratory (ACL), a subdivision of the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL) in the Computer Science Department at Montana State University, specializes in archaeological applications of computer technology. Four areas of research and development will be discussed (1) an integrated multimedia field-to-publication data management system, (2) a relational database, (3) image processing, and (4) graphics applications K…
A Case of Bronze Age Cephalotaphy on Easton Down in Wiltshire
VIII.— Faience Beads of the British Bronze Age
Of the many objects of the Bronze Age which have defied decay in these Islands, few can rank in interest and importance with a number of small coloured beads which have been found associated with barrow burials and in other contexts. So well known are they, that it seems almost needless to add that their importance lies in the possibility of using them as datum points in the Absolute Chronology of this period. The question of their origin is thus…
A Middle Bronze Age Site at Stockbridge, Hampshire
During recent excavations on Stockbridge Down a large sherd of Middle Bronze Age ware was found lying on a rabbit scrape on the open downland. The actual site of the find and of the excavation to be described is marked as X on the sketch map which accompanies this report (fig. 1), and which is based upon the excellent aerial photograph of the site published and described by O. G. S. Crawford and A. Keiller. Little description of this ridge of the…
A Round Barrow on Stockbridge Down, Hampshire
In a recent report ( Proc. Prehist. Soc. iv, 1938, 249) we described the contents of a pit situated on Stockbridge Down on the ridge that runs south-west from Woolbury Ring Camp. This pit, the site of which is marked as X on the sketch-map which accompanies the present paper (fig. 1), contained an occupation or refuse layer of Middle Bronze Age date, the rarity of which warranted in our opinion examination of anything in the immediate vicinity th…
The Deverel-Rimbury Settlement on Thorny Down, Winterbourne Gunner, S. Wilts
A preliminary report on the discovery and partial excavation during 1936 of the Late Bronze Age farmstead or settlement site on Thorny Down, Winterbourne Gunner, in South Wiltshire has already been published. Sufficient material was there recorded to prove beyond question the approximate date of the site. This was assigned to phase B of the Late Bronze Age ( c . 750 B.C.), the culture being that of the Deverel–Rimbury immigrants which for conveni…
Part IThe Prehistoric Ages
Second Report of the Sub-Committee of the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries on the Petrological Identification of Stone Axes
The first report of the Sub-Committee of the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries on the petrological identification of stone axes was published in the Proceedings for 1941, vol. VII, 50–72. Appreciative comments concerning it were published in Museums Journal , vol. 42, 34, and Nature , 1942, 149, 275. Membership of the Sub-Committee remains unchanged apart from the withdrawal of Dr R. Churchill Blackie and the addition of Mrs D. P. …
A Beaker Interment on Stockbridge Down, Hampshire, and its Cultural Connexions
The archaeology of Stockbridge Down owes much to the interest of the late Colonel Sir Norman Gray Hill, Bt., M.C., M.B., who was killed in an aeroplane accident in 1944. This piece of downland, recently presented to the National Trust by Miss Rosalind Hill, has, as a result, yielded information of outstanding interest, and it remains for the present writer, who was associated with the work, to record his last find, a Beaker burial at the spot mar…
Some Grooved Ware Pottery from the Woodhenge area
In a recent article a description was given of the contents of two pits found by Mr A. St. J. Booth in his garden at Woodlands, Countess Road, Amesbury within 300 yards of the centre of Woodhenge. These pits produced a remarkable assemblage of objects of neolithic B Grooved Ware type, and the apparent care which had been expended upon their deliberate burial induced the suggestion that they represented the sacred or hallowed relics of feasts held…
Vases Supports
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A second fixed point in the Chronology of the Harappa Culture
Fixed points in the chronology of the Harappa Culture are not abundant and such as exist tend rather to emphasize the earlier phases of that remarkable civilization. Evidence for close contact with Akkad about 2300 B.C., based primarily on stamp-seals, has been the subject of review by Piggott, and much clearer light has been forthcoming as a result of excavations at Harappa by the Archaeological Survey of India during 1946 under the direction of…
An Axe-hammer from Fifield Bavant, Wilts., and the Exploitation of Preselite
The axe-hammer illustrated (pl. xviii b and fig. 1) was found by Mr. J. E. Best in 1944 on the surface of Fifield Down about one mile north-west of Fifield Bavant, south Wilts. Unfortunately for dating purposes it was not associated with other objects, but nevertheless is of great interest in that it is made of spotted dolerite or preselite from the Presely mountains, Pembrokeshire, and is of a type very rarely found in the southern lowlands. For…
Third Report of the Sub-Committee of the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries on the Petrological Identification of Stone Axes
Fourteen years have elapsed since the appointment of the sub-committee in 1936 to consider the petrological identification of stone implements with special reference to the area covered by the South-Western Group of Museums and Art Galleries; and two reports have been published in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , VII (1941), 50 and XIII (1947), 47, outlining briefly the results of its work. Considerable progress has been made since th…
A Necklace from a Barrow in North Molton parish, North Devon
In examining some material in the reserves of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, I noticed a small necklace which includes beads of blue faience (pl. vii a ). The entry in the museum's Accessions Book stated that it had been presented in 1917 by Mr. A. Amos, ‘from a barrow on Beacon Hill, North Molton’, and that it had been ‘found with cremated bones, an urn and flint implements’. After many difficulties I succeeded, with the help of Mr. R…
The Excavation of two additional holes at Stonehenge, 1950, and new evidence for the date of the Monument
Among the most remarkable discoveries made in the course of the Society's excavations at Stonehenge in 1919–26 was the discovery of a series of small pits set in a circle immediately within the bank of the surrounding earthwork. Some of these had left slight surface depressions which had been recorded by John Aubrey on his plan of Stonehenge made in 1666, and the pits were appropriately named the Aubrey Holes in recognition of this sound piece of…
Durrington Walls, Wiltshire: Recent excavations at a ceremonial site of the early second millennium B.C
The site known as Durrington Walls, in the parish of Durrington, Wiltshire (Nat. Grid Ref. 41/150437), has been known as an antiquity since the early nineteenth century, when its bank and ditch was recorded by Colt Hoare ( Anc. Wilts. (1812), i, 169) and included by him in his map of the Stonehenge region. The nature of this vast enclosure, some 1,720 by 1,470 ft. in dimensions, with an average diameter of 1,600 ft., and an originally huge intern…
The use and distribution of Faience in the Ancient East and Prehistoric Europe
Twenty years have elapsed since H. C. Beck and the present writer published a preliminary paper on the origin of British faience beads with special reference to those of the segmented variety and, except for the discovery and recognition of many new specimens over much wider areas it may be said that nothing has emerged to alter materially the general conclusions there enunciated that an Egyptian origin was the most likely for a number of the bea…
Computer Applications in Archaeology: Graphics, Database, and Image Processing in a Multimedia Field-to-Publication Data Management System
The Archaeological Computing Laboratory (ACL), a subdivision of the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL) in the Computer Science Department at Montana State University, specializes in archaeological applications of computer technology. Four areas of research and development will be discussed (1) an integrated multimedia field-to-publication data management system, (2) a relational database, (3) image processing, and (4) graphics applications K…
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