Leslie Alcock
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 305564 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Leslie Alcock |
| PRENOMES | Leslie |
| SOBRENOME | Alcock |
| ASSINATURA | ALCOCK L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1950 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
From the Baltic to the Black Sea
From realism to caricature
A presentation of Pictish and other northern British illustrations from stones, documents and metalwork of the seventh to ninth centuries AD
The context of the Dupplin cross
The recent discovery of a Latin inscription on the Dupplin Cross allows a new reading which augments earlier interpretations of the monument.The name of Constantine -king of Pictland and Dalriada -allows the cross to be dated to the period before AD 820, and identifies the cross as possibly the earliest historically dated example of Insular sculpture in Scotland
The Site of the 'Battle of Dunnichen
On Saturday 20 May 685, a Northumbrian army led by King Egfrith was destroyed by a Pictish force under King Bridei son of Bile, and Ecgfrith himself was slain, in a battle which was crucial for the history of Northern Britain. The outcome was catastrophic for Northumbria, which lost its hegemony over the peoples north of the Forth-Clyde isthmus: Picts, Irish of Dal Riata (i.e. Scots), and Britons of Dumbarton.1 A Christian mission from Northumbri…
Excavations at Alt Clut, 1974-5
Reconnaissance excavations on early historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84; 5
From the Baltic to the Black Sea
Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84
As part of a long-term programme of research on historically documented fortifications, excavations were carried out in 1974--75 at Dumbarton Castle, anciently known as Alt Clut or Clyde Rock. These disproved the hypothesis that a nuclear fort, after the pattern of Dunadd or Dundurn, could be identified on the Rock, but revealed a timber-and-rubble defence of Early Historic date overlooking the isthmus which links the Rock to the mainland. Finds …
Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84
Historical evidence for a fort at Dundurn in the late 7th century AD is supported by excavation and radiocarbon analysis. Waterlogged deposits preserved environmental evidence and structural timberwork including timber-laced defences and a wattle floor. Finds include E-ware pottery and imported glass, a glass boss, a zoomorphic bronze dangle, a stick-pin mould and a complete leather shoe with stamped decoration. Nuclear forts are discussed as a w…
The Rhind Lectures 1988-89
Under the title 'An Heroic Age: war and society in northern Britain, AD 450-850', six lectures were given using documentary and archaeological evidence
Reconnaissance excavations on early historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84
Dunollie is the Dun Ollaigh mentioned in early annals, and small-scale excavations revealed a sequence of structures that correlates well with the historical evidence. Within a radiocarbon date-range of the 7th-10th centuries, a bronze-worker's hearth, with moulds for stick pins, was overlain by a stone-built rampart which subsequently collapsed. A new rampart was superimposed on the old probably in the 13th century. The role of Dunollie in Dal R…
Reconnaissance excavations on early historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84
The headland known as St Abb's Nunnery was shown to bear a late med secular hall and enclosing wall, identifiable as Rampart Hall. The preferred site for the 7th century Anglian monastery is Kirk Hall, where a massive turf bank may be identified as the monastic vallum. This had been preceded by two timber palisades, one of them 14C-dated to 7th-8th centuries AD. Au(adp)
Scandinavian York and Dublin
Excavation and publication
An excavator's skills cannot be assessed from even a full excavation report: the primary aim of archaeological publication is to make information available, not to encourage the impossible task of 'site reconstruction'. Moreover very few readers have the time or need to grapple with complex detail, even if they can afford the high costs of such reports. Hence conventional methods of publication in the 'Cranborne Chase manner' should be abandoned …
Radiocarbon dates for the Cadbury massacre
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A multi-disciplinary chronology for Alt Clut, Castle Roack, Dumbarton
Small scale excavations at this early British stronghold were performed as part of a long term research programme on early historic fortifications in Scotland (here listed). Historical, archaeological and 14C evidence are combined to produce a historical account, identify the fortification implied by Bede in 731, and attribute its destruction to the Vikings Olafr and Ivarr the Boneless in 870. The 14C dates are best read as implying construction …
The Auld Wives' Lifts
This is an account of the severed heads on the Auld Wives' Lifts, Craigmaddie Muir, Scotland, by the Professor of Archaeology, University of Glasgow. The Auld Wives' Lifts is an object of interest and debate for geology, antiquarianism, folklore, vernacular art and, perhaps, Celtic iconography, and we are glad to give it publicity
Archaeology and History
Excavations at Cadbury-Camelot, 1966-70
Cadbury Castle or Camelot' is the name given by the Ordnance Survey to the 18-acre (c. 7-ha) multi-ramparted hillfort which stands above the villages of Sutton Montis and South Cadbury in the county of Somerset (NGR ST 6225). Abbreviated to Cadbury-Camelot, it serves conveniently to distinguish this fortthe scene of intensive excavations in 1966-70 from Cadbury Castle by Cadbury, Devon (NGR SS 9105), Cadbury Camp by Congresbury (NGR ST 4464), or …
Excavations at South Cadbury Castle 1970
The final season of excavations at South Cadbury Castle in July–September 1970 produced evidence for a Neolithic ditch. Five phases of remodelling were detected in the Pre-Roman gateway, and two in the Early Post-Roman gate. An important group of bronze brooches was associated with a massacre at the Roman Conquest. In the interior, both circular and rectangular buildings of the Iron Age were uncovered, as well as a building ancillary to the Early…
Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1969
Continued excavations at South Cadbury in July-August 1969 failed to confirm the Early Neolithic enclosed settlement hinted at in 1968, but added Late Neolithic pottery to the known cultural sequence. For the Iron Age, particular interest attaches to evidence for stake-built round houses; to a rich collection of iron and bronze arms and armour perhaps from a workshop; and to a rectangular shrine with animal sacrifices. The moment of the Roman Con…
South Cadbury Excavations, 1969
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Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1968
Continued excavations at South Cadbury in July-August 1968 discovered Early Neolithic pottery and flints beneath the Iron Age ramparts and thereby hinted at a 20-acre embanked settlement. Four or five structural phases were revealed in the Iron Age ramparts themselves, the first a timber-revetted bank, the second a stone-faced wall, and the later ones more indeterminate. Within the defences storage-pits, circular houses, and a possible shrine wer…
South Cadbury Excavations, 1968
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Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1967
The situation, character, and antiquarian history of South Cadbury Castle, Somerset, have already been described (Alcock (1967 a ); (1967 b )). A reconnaissance excavation in 1966 hinted that occupation of the hilltop had begun in the Early Neolithic, and after a hiatus had been resumed sometime in the Late Bronze Age. It demonstrated that from early in the pre-Roman Iron Age there was a rich and intensive occupation, during which the defences we…
Culture and Environment. Essays in Honour of Sir Cyril Fox
Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1968
Continued excavations at South Cadbury in July-August 1968 discovered Early Neolithic pottery and flints beneath the Iron Age ramparts and thereby hinted at a 20-acre embanked settlement. Four or five structural phases were revealed in the Iron Age ramparts themselves, the first a timber-revetted bank, the second a stone-faced wall, and the later ones more indeterminate. Within the defences storage-pits, circular houses, and a possible shrine wer…
Excavations at South Cadbury Castle 1970
The final season of excavations at South Cadbury Castle in July–September 1970 produced evidence for a Neolithic ditch. Five phases of remodelling were detected in the Pre-Roman gateway, and two in the Early Post-Roman gate. An important group of bronze brooches was associated with a massacre at the Roman Conquest. In the interior, both circular and rectangular buildings of the Iron Age were uncovered, as well as a building ancillary to the Early…
Castle Tower, Penmaen
Castle Tower, a ring-work of Norman character, was shown by excavation to have two main structural phases, dated by pottery to XII—early XIII century A.D. In the first phase, there was an elaborate timber gate-tower, and wooden buildings in the interior. After the gate had been burned down, the entrance was refashioned in stone, and a dry stone hall was constructed
Reconnaissance excavations on early historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84; 5
Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1969
Continued excavations at South Cadbury in July-August 1969 failed to confirm the Early Neolithic enclosed settlement hinted at in 1968, but added Late Neolithic pottery to the known cultural sequence. For the Iron Age, particular interest attaches to evidence for stake-built round houses; to a rich collection of iron and bronze arms and armour perhaps from a workshop; and to a rectangular shrine with animal sacrifices. The moment of the Roman Con…
Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1967
The situation, character, and antiquarian history of South Cadbury Castle, Somerset, have already been described (Alcock (1967 a ); (1967 b )). A reconnaissance excavation in 1966 hinted that occupation of the hilltop had begun in the Early Neolithic, and after a hiatus had been resumed sometime in the Late Bronze Age. It demonstrated that from early in the pre-Roman Iron Age there was a rich and intensive occupation, during which the defences we…
A Reconnaissance Excavation at South Cadbury Castle, Somerset, 1966
South Cadbury Castle (N.G. ST 6225) occupies a free-standing hill, some 500 feet high, towards the Somerset-Dorset border. The hill itself is principally, if not entirely, of yellow sandstone belonging to the Jurassic series. To the west there are wide views across the low-lying Somerset basin centred on Glastonbury, an area of great importance in the early post-Roman centuries. To the east, a scarp marks the western edge of the higher ground of …
Settlement Patterns in Celtic Britain
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The Winged Objects in the Llyn Fawr Hoard
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The Site of the 'Battle of Dunnichen
On Saturday 20 May 685, a Northumbrian army led by King Egfrith was destroyed by a Pictish force under King Bridei son of Bile, and Ecgfrith himself was slain, in a battle which was crucial for the history of Northern Britain. The outcome was catastrophic for Northumbria, which lost its hegemony over the peoples north of the Forth-Clyde isthmus: Picts, Irish of Dal Riata (i.e. Scots), and Britons of Dumbarton.1 A Christian mission from Northumbri…
Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84
Historical evidence for a fort at Dundurn in the late 7th century AD is supported by excavation and radiocarbon analysis. Waterlogged deposits preserved environmental evidence and structural timberwork including timber-laced defences and a wattle floor. Finds include E-ware pottery and imported glass, a glass boss, a zoomorphic bronze dangle, a stick-pin mould and a complete leather shoe with stamped decoration. Nuclear forts are discussed as a w…
Radiocarbon dates for the Cadbury massacre
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Excavations at Degannwy Castle, Caernarvonshire, 1961–6
Hillforts in Wales and the Marches
Wales and its March is a land of fortifications, Celtic, Roman and medieval; and an analysis of any one of these classes in microcosm may also be of value for wider studies. Certainly the student of hillforts has just been presented with an invaluable corpus of material in the completed trilogy of Royal CommissionInventoriesfor Caernarvonshire. As it happens, though the Caernarvonshire forts are deficient in significant finds, they are particular…
Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84
As part of a long-term programme of research on historically documented fortifications, excavations were carried out in 1974--75 at Dumbarton Castle, anciently known as Alt Clut or Clyde Rock. These disproved the hypothesis that a nuclear fort, after the pattern of Dunadd or Dundurn, could be identified on the Rock, but revealed a timber-and-rubble defence of Early Historic date overlooking the isthmus which links the Rock to the mainland. Finds …
Excavation and publication
An excavator's skills cannot be assessed from even a full excavation report: the primary aim of archaeological publication is to make information available, not to encourage the impossible task of 'site reconstruction'. Moreover very few readers have the time or need to grapple with complex detail, even if they can afford the high costs of such reports. Hence conventional methods of publication in the 'Cranborne Chase manner' should be abandoned …
Excavations at Cadbury-Camelot, 1966-70
Cadbury Castle or Camelot' is the name given by the Ordnance Survey to the 18-acre (c. 7-ha) multi-ramparted hillfort which stands above the villages of Sutton Montis and South Cadbury in the county of Somerset (NGR ST 6225). Abbreviated to Cadbury-Camelot, it serves conveniently to distinguish this fortthe scene of intensive excavations in 1966-70 from Cadbury Castle by Cadbury, Devon (NGR SS 9105), Cadbury Camp by Congresbury (NGR ST 4464), or …
South Cadbury Excavations, 1969
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South Cadbury Excavations, 1968
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Cadbury Castle, 1967
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A Seaside Villa in Tripolitania
East of Sabratha the coast of the Mediterranean Sea is formed by a line of soft sandstone cliffs. These, which are scarcely more than twenty feet high, are divided by low headlands into shallow bays. Below the cliffs, the foreshore is sometimes of harder rocks, flat or weathered into sharp spines and pinnacles; sometimes of fine sand, equally ideal for bathing or for beaching boats. Inland run low sand-dunes, barren now except for the desert shru…
The Henge Monument of The Bull Ring, Dove Holes, Derbyshire
In March 1949, work was carried out at The Bull Ring, Dove Holes, Derbyshire, by members of the Oxford University Archaeological Society, as part of the general survey of ‘henge“ monuments, undertaken by Mr R. J. C. Atkinson. The site was surveyed and was found to be of the ‘double-entrance’ class of Henge Monument. No stone-holes were found, but it is known from an 18th century account that the monument once had a stone setting similar to that a…
A Seaside Villa in Tripolitania
East of Sabratha the coast of the Mediterranean Sea is formed by a line of soft sandstone cliffs. These, which are scarcely more than twenty feet high, are divided by low headlands into shallow bays. Below the cliffs, the foreshore is sometimes of harder rocks, flat or weathered into sharp spines and pinnacles; sometimes of fine sand, equally ideal for bathing or for beaching boats. Inland run low sand-dunes, barren now except for the desert shru…
A Technique for Surface Collecting
It has usually been assumed that the collecting of surface material from the rich sites of Western Asia brought a harvest of knowledge at the expense of little archaeological skill; that while excavation, potentially destructive of evidence, required strict control, surface collecting was so harmless that it might be pursued indiscriminately. Recent survey work in Baluchistan has convinced the writer of the dangers of this view. This note is offe…
Ringham Low
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Ringham Low-A Correction
Aberford Dykes
The Roman road from Legioliuna (Castleford) to Calcaria (Tadcaster), and its modern descendant, the Great North Road, cross the Cock Beck at Aberford, eight miles north-east of Leeds, Yorkshire (FIG. I). The crossing is defended by a triple system of southward facing banks and ditches which total some 41⁄2 miles in length. The main bank, distinguished by the steepness of its scarp, still rises to 25 feet above the bottom of its ditch, and shows i…
The Winged Objects in the Llyn Fawr Hoard
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Settlement Patterns in Celtic Britain
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Culture and Environment. Essays in Honour of Sir Cyril Fox
Hillforts in Wales and the Marches
Wales and its March is a land of fortifications, Celtic, Roman and medieval; and an analysis of any one of these classes in microcosm may also be of value for wider studies. Certainly the student of hillforts has just been presented with an invaluable corpus of material in the completed trilogy of Royal CommissionInventoriesfor Caernarvonshire. As it happens, though the Caernarvonshire forts are deficient in significant finds, they are particular…
Castle Tower, Penmaen
Castle Tower, a ring-work of Norman character, was shown by excavation to have two main structural phases, dated by pottery to XII—early XIII century A.D. In the first phase, there was an elaborate timber gate-tower, and wooden buildings in the interior. After the gate had been burned down, the entrance was refashioned in stone, and a dry stone hall was constructed
Excavations at Degannwy Castle, Caernarvonshire, 1961–6
A Reconnaissance Excavation at South Cadbury Castle, Somerset, 1966
South Cadbury Castle (N.G. ST 6225) occupies a free-standing hill, some 500 feet high, towards the Somerset-Dorset border. The hill itself is principally, if not entirely, of yellow sandstone belonging to the Jurassic series. To the west there are wide views across the low-lying Somerset basin centred on Glastonbury, an area of great importance in the early post-Roman centuries. To the east, a scarp marks the western edge of the higher ground of …
Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1967
The situation, character, and antiquarian history of South Cadbury Castle, Somerset, have already been described (Alcock (1967 a ); (1967 b )). A reconnaissance excavation in 1966 hinted that occupation of the hilltop had begun in the Early Neolithic, and after a hiatus had been resumed sometime in the Late Bronze Age. It demonstrated that from early in the pre-Roman Iron Age there was a rich and intensive occupation, during which the defences we…
Cadbury Castle, 1967
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Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1968
Continued excavations at South Cadbury in July-August 1968 discovered Early Neolithic pottery and flints beneath the Iron Age ramparts and thereby hinted at a 20-acre embanked settlement. Four or five structural phases were revealed in the Iron Age ramparts themselves, the first a timber-revetted bank, the second a stone-faced wall, and the later ones more indeterminate. Within the defences storage-pits, circular houses, and a possible shrine wer…
South Cadbury Excavations, 1968
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Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1969
Continued excavations at South Cadbury in July-August 1969 failed to confirm the Early Neolithic enclosed settlement hinted at in 1968, but added Late Neolithic pottery to the known cultural sequence. For the Iron Age, particular interest attaches to evidence for stake-built round houses; to a rich collection of iron and bronze arms and armour perhaps from a workshop; and to a rectangular shrine with animal sacrifices. The moment of the Roman Con…
South Cadbury Excavations, 1969
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Excavations at South Cadbury Castle 1970
The final season of excavations at South Cadbury Castle in July–September 1970 produced evidence for a Neolithic ditch. Five phases of remodelling were detected in the Pre-Roman gateway, and two in the Early Post-Roman gate. An important group of bronze brooches was associated with a massacre at the Roman Conquest. In the interior, both circular and rectangular buildings of the Iron Age were uncovered, as well as a building ancillary to the Early…
Excavations at Cadbury-Camelot, 1966-70
Cadbury Castle or Camelot' is the name given by the Ordnance Survey to the 18-acre (c. 7-ha) multi-ramparted hillfort which stands above the villages of Sutton Montis and South Cadbury in the county of Somerset (NGR ST 6225). Abbreviated to Cadbury-Camelot, it serves conveniently to distinguish this fortthe scene of intensive excavations in 1966-70 from Cadbury Castle by Cadbury, Devon (NGR SS 9105), Cadbury Camp by Congresbury (NGR ST 4464), or …
Archaeology and History
The Auld Wives' Lifts
This is an account of the severed heads on the Auld Wives' Lifts, Craigmaddie Muir, Scotland, by the Professor of Archaeology, University of Glasgow. The Auld Wives' Lifts is an object of interest and debate for geology, antiquarianism, folklore, vernacular art and, perhaps, Celtic iconography, and we are glad to give it publicity
A multi-disciplinary chronology for Alt Clut, Castle Roack, Dumbarton
Small scale excavations at this early British stronghold were performed as part of a long term research programme on early historic fortifications in Scotland (here listed). Historical, archaeological and 14C evidence are combined to produce a historical account, identify the fortification implied by Bede in 731, and attribute its destruction to the Vikings Olafr and Ivarr the Boneless in 870. The 14C dates are best read as implying construction …
Radiocarbon dates for the Cadbury massacre
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