User:Richard Nevell

Hi, my name is Richard Nevell. I'm a graduate from England with degrees in History and Ancient History and Archaeology. With regards to history I’m particularly interested in the medieval period. As it’s a pretty big subject, I know more about the High Medieval Period in England than anything else, but I’m looking to branch out. I’m also keen on detective fiction, but since my interest is strictly amateur I’ll probably stick to what I know best.

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]