crossing borders – building contacts
News and Notes of the Römisch-Germanische Kommission
The second part of the South-Scotland survey led us into the county Scottish Borders. Here, close to the town of Melrose lies the site of a Roman fort, and nearby an Iron Age broch – a round-tower built of stone.
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Our first destination in Scotland in this year’s survey tour was the Lowland-landscape of Ecclefechan and Middlebie. Here, the tabular eminence of Burnswark Hill has intrigued settlers at least from the Bronze Age onwards. Its surrounding landscape is a distinct livestock-farming region. Positioned intervisible with the Hadrian’s Wall, the area, also raised Roman interest in the late Iron Age and was […]
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Previous to our surveys in Dumfriesshire and Scottish Borders, Nina, Roman and me went for a flying visit to Northern Ireland. Colleagues from Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Aberdeen invited us to survey in Navan Fort, a renown monument West of the town Armagh in Northern Ireland. It has been identified in the early literature as a „royal […]
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23rd September – only two days left and Nina, Roman and me will head for a new survey campaign in South Scotland (and Northern Ireland). A good time to recap the work we did last year in our gradiometer prospections in Burnswark, Birrens, Ladyward and Middleby (all Dumfriesshire). Last year it was just Nina Dworschak who joint me, doing all […]
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