User:Richard Nevell

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.

I have a PhD in archaeology and specialise in the Middle Ages, and also have an interest in the Roman period.

In chronological order I've started the clusters on

•  Viking longship [r]: a vessel used during the Viking Age for transport over water ^[e]
•  dendrochronology [r]: The practice of using tree rings to provide dates ^[e]
•  radiocarbon dating [r]: A scientific method of determining the age of organic material based on the amount of carbon-14. ^[e]
•  Willard F. Libby [r]: American chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960 for developing radiocarbon dating. ^[e]
•  Pompeii [r]: A Roman city buried by a volcanic eruption A.D. 79. The city is now an important archaeological site. ^[e]
•  Hadrian [r]: Roman Emperor from 117 until his death in 138. ^[e]
•  Pantheon, Rome [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Hadrian's Villa [r]: A now ruined palatial complex built between A.D. 118 and 133 by the Roman Emperor Hadrian. ^[e]
•  Cumae [r]: Was as a coastal settlement in Italy, just north of the Bay of Naples, founded in the 8th century B.C. ^[e]
•  Etruscans [r]: An ancient people who lived in western Italy and were most powerful during the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. ^[e]
•  Richter scale [r]: A measure of an earthquake's strength. ^[e]
•  Colosseum [r]: An amphitheatre in Rome built in the 1st century A.D. ^[e]
•  Campania [r]: A region of southern Italy, covering about 5,250 square miles. ^[e]
•  Herculaneum [r]: A Roman town buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79. ^[e]
•  Battle Abbey [r]: A religious house founded by William the Conqueror on the site of Battle of Hastings. ^[e]
•  Joachim Winckelmann [r]: (1717–1768) A German classicist who brought the excavations at Herculaneum to international attention. ^[e]
•  deserted medieval village [r]: Settlements occupied during the medieval period and abandoned then or later. ^[e]
•  Nero [r]: Roman Emperor from A.D. 54 to A.D. 68 ^[e]
•  Leaning Tower of Pisa [r]: A bell tower built in the 12th century, now famous for its lean. ^[e]
•  Lighthouse of Alexandria [r]: One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Lighthouse guided shipping into the busy port of Alexandria. ^[e]
•  Colossus of Rhodes [r]: A statue of the Greek god Helios built in early 3rd century B.C.; it was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ^[e]
•  Pliny the Elder [r]: A Roman natural historian who lived in the 1st century A.D.; his most famous work is Natural History, an encyclopaedia. ^[e]
•  Nile River [r]: One of the longest rivers in the world at about 6,695km from its source in the south to the Mediterranean Sea in the north. ^[e]
•  Guildford [r]: The county town of Surrey in England ^[e]
•  Chartres [r]: A town in France with a population of 39,000. ^[e]
•  Caligula [r]: Roman Emperor from A.D. 37 to his death in A.D. 41 ^[e]
•  Bayham Abbey [r]: A Premonstratensian religious house founded in the early 13th century and dissolved in 1525. ^[e]
•  Furness Abbey [r]: A religous house founded by Savigniac monks in the 12th century before the order merged with the Cistercians in the 1140s. The abbey was dissolved in 1537. ^[e]
•  Tiberius [r]: Roman Emperor from A.D. 14 to 37. ^[e]
•  Cowdray House [r]: A 16th-century Tudor mansion badly damaged by fire in 1793. The ruins have been open to the public since the early 20th century. ^[e]
•  Posthole [r]: A slot in the ground which held one end of a timber ^[e]
•  Robber trench [r]: An archaeological feature created when the foundations of a stone building are dug up for reuse. ^[e]
•  Rescue archaeology [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Cheddar Palace [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Malbork Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Guildford Cathedral [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Palace of Westminster [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Scheduled monument [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  North Leigh Roman Villa [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Teutonic Knights [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Hopton Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Farnham Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Lindisfarne Priory [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Misenum [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Lucius Cornelius Sulla [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Lay subsidy [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Dunstanburgh Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe Abbey [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Carlisle Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Aldford Castle [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Incastellamento [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Statue of Zeus at Olympia [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Ostia [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Orléans Cathedral [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Samian pottery [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  House of the Surgeon [r]: Add brief definition or description
•  Amphora [r]: Add brief definition or description