V R D'A Desborough

Biographic Data

ID4553776
NAMEV R D'A Desborough
GIVEN NAMESV R D'A
FAMILY NAMEDesborough
SIGNATUREDESBOROUGH V R D A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
H-INDEX1

  • The Greek Dark Ages

    Tom B Jones, Tom Jones et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1974

  • The Greek Dark Ages

    Richard Hamilton, V R D'A DesboroughARTICLEThe American Historical Review1974

  • The Last Mycenaeans and Their Successors: An Archaeological Survey c. 1200-c. 1000 B.C

    Evelyn Lord Smithson, V R D'A Desborough et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1965

  • The End of Mycenaean Civilization and the Dark Age

    Machteld J Mellink, R D''A Desborough et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1962

  • Part III. Two Tombs

    Open AccessV R D'A Desborough, V R DesboroughARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…1956

    Whereas the 1954 tombs belonged to the House of Shields, of the two uncovered in 1955 one was within the House of Sphinxes and the other lay immediately to the west of it. This burial does not need any lengthy description. It was found at the east end of an otherwise unfruitful trial trench dug immediately to the west of the modern road which runs along the western side of the House of Sphinxes. It consisted of the skeleton (in very poor conditio…

  • Part VI. Three Geometric Tombs

    Open AccessV R D'A Desborough, V R DesboroughARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…1955References: 1

    During the excavations at Mycenae in 1953, a Protogeometric cist burial was discovered in the House of Shields, sunk into the floor of its west room. This burial, numbered Tomb PG 601, was published, with other burials, in BSA XLIX 258 ff. In the summer of 1954 Professor Wace uncovered three further burials in the House of Shields. These, at his most kind invitation, I publish here. General situation (Fig. 1). Whereas tomb PG 601 was found at the…

  • Part V. Four Tombs

    Open AccessV R D'A Desborough, V R DesboroughARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…1954Cited by: 1

    This is a true cist burial, in that the skeleton, of an infant, was placed in a stone casket. The casket is a single block of poros, roughly hollowed out until the requisite depth was reached. Its dimensions are 0·60 m. × 0·50 m., but the block is not a perfect rectangle by any means. The depth is c . 0·30 m. Underneath the block a group of seven roughly circular shallow holes and two shallow rectangular depressions are to be seen; the only expla…