It is also the centre of an area richly endowed with archaeological monuments including prehistoric burial cairns, Iron Age stone enclosures, early Norman and later castles, and many monastic sites.

From 10, 000 BCE to the first centuries CE, successive peoples left many archaeological remains, habitations, burial mounds and enclosures which have yielded abundant lithic and ceramic material.

In 1996, prior to the expansion of the Stanway Sand & Gravel quarry, an archaeological team was called in to investigate the outline of five ancient ditched enclosures identified by aerial photography.

Inside the old city proper lie the town hall and museum, the " Museu da Terra de Miranda " ( museum of the lands of Miranda ), which has displays of archaeological findings, farm life, local clothing, and traditional masks.

A number of important Mayan archaeological sites lie within the Cayo District.

There is archaeological evidence indicating that there were timber buildings to the west of the church in the late Saxon period, and it is suspected that the remains of the Saxon settlement may continue to lie beneath the town centre.

Many archaeological and historic sites, as well as Native American tribal lands, now lie submerged under reservoirs for the CVP, which has received heavy criticism for promoting high-water-demand irrigated industrial farming that in turn has polluted rivers and groundwater.

The new site of the church building itself is now believed, after recent archaeological work, to lie partly underneath and to the east of the present Georgian mansion of Syon House.

In addition to historic buildings at risk, the Heritage at Risk Register includes England ’ s most important archaeological sites, its registered historic parks and gardens, its registered battlefields, and the protected wreck sites that lie off the coastline.

The principle of stratigraphic succession states that any given unit of archaeological stratification takes its place in the stratigraphic sequence of a site from its position between the undermost of all units which lie above it and the uppermost of all those units which lie below it and with which it has a physical contact, all other superpositional relationships being regarded as redundant.

Any given unit of archaeological stratification takes its place in the stratigraphic sequence of a site from its position between the undermost of all units which lie above it and the uppermost of all those units which lie below it and with which it has a physical contact, all other superpositional relationships being regarded as redundant.

To the east of Bossiney lie the remains of an earthen ringwork and bailey, which were discovered during archaeological excavations during the 1840s, and these date to ca.

The settlement site, however is an archaeological site, and a museum has been built nearby for exhibition of finds, models and reconstructions.

* Old Sarum, England – population moved to nearby Salisbury although the owners of the archaeological site retained the right to elect a Member of Parliament to represent Old Sarum until the nineteenth century ( see William Pitt ).

West Suffolk is, like nearby East Cambridgeshire, renowned for archaeological finds from the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

A team of volunteers and professional archaeologists are involved in a continuing research archaeological excavation on the site of nearby, possibly military, buildings.

This is dubious, as " no trace has been found there of its artificial harbour for 360 warships, or of a citadel, unless the nearby hill of Silberberg is accepted as the site of such ; but there were Norsemen there around the year 1000, and the archaeological finds reveal a mixed population of Scandinavians and Slavs ".

550 – 500 BCE, archaeological excavations over more than a century have recovered artifacts as early as the Mycenaean era, many now at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, and some in the archaeological museum at nearby Ioannina.

The archaeological site, Knossos, refers either to the palace complex itself or to that complex and several houses of similar antiquity nearby, which were inadvertently excavated along with the palace.

** Addington long barrow an archaeological site nearby

There is archaeological evidence for scattered Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement nearby, but until a bridge was built there, London did not exist.

An archaeological site is located nearby at Onion Portage.

It is not known when the area was first settled, but the nearby Mount Royal archaeological site is a possible remnant of a Timucua Indian village from ca.

Blanding is a gateway to an abundance of nearby natural and archaeological resources, including The Dinosaur Museum, Natural Bridges National Monument, Monument Valley and the Four Corners area, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area ( Lake Powell ), Cedar Mesa archaeological and wilderness area, the San Juan River including Goosenecks State Park, and the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park.

Other nearby Maya archaeological sites include Chaa Creek and Cahal Pech, Buenavista del Cayo, and Naranjo.

The Gulf boasts two particularly notable archaeological sites ; the ancient theatre at Epidaurus and nearby asclepieion and the The temple of Aphaia on Aegina.

Attracted by the nearby archaeological investigation of a Roman camp, he stopped his car to compare the landscape on either side of the road with the marked features on his much used map.

The archaeological site of Quiriguá is named after the nearby village of the same name, and is located a little over northeast of Guatemala City ; it lies in the municipality of Los Amates in the department of Izabal and has an elevation of above mean sea level.

A few Native American archaeological sites exist in the northern section nearby the ' Indian Writings ' camp, and various camps seek to preserve Philmont's Native American heritage.

At nearby ' King Arthur's cave ' on the Great Doward, there have been important archaeological discoveries including the remains of a hyena family and Sabre-toothed Cat bones.

Between 150-400 AD there is evidence of Romano-British farming and nearby at Latimer there is archaeological evidence of a Roman villa and the planting of grapevines.

This may have been repairs and improvements to an existing Saxon fort or burgh, centred on the Saxon church of St Mary de Castro, although archaeological evidence suggests that it was actually a new motte and bailey design castle built from scratch nearby.

A shrine for the Sheikh Abu Hajar Azraq and the remains of a small domed building are still standing, and there are many archaeological remains of interest, including cisterns and domestic wells which used to supply the village with fresh drinking water from nearby springs.

* The Archaeological Museum at Korizis Square houses findings from the Sanctuary of Poseidon, from ancient Troizen, and from other archaeological sites nearby.

It has been claimed that the nearby earthworks of Ring Stones Camp (), Twist Castle () and Beadle Hill () are of Roman origin, but little supporting archaeological information has been published.

By the crusader period, a cistern under the former basilica was rumoured to have been the location that Helena had found the True Cross, and began to be venerated as such ; although the cistern later became the Chapel of the Invention of the Cross, there is no evidence for the rumour prior to the 11th century, and modern archaeological investigation has now dated the cistern to the 11th century repairs by Monomachos.

Dan Bahat, the former city archaeologist of Jerusalem, regards them as unsatisfactory, as there is no known Temple of Aphrodite matching Corbo's design, and no archaeological evidence for Corbo's suggestion that the Temple Building was on a platform raised high enough to avoid including anything sited where the Aedicule is now ; indeed Bahat notes that many temples to Aphrodite have a rotunda-like design, and argues that there is no archaeological reason to assume that the present rotunda wasn't based on a rotunda in the temple previously on the site.

Adriano La Regina ( former Rome ’ s archaeological superintendent 1976-2004, professor of Etruscology at Rome ’ s La Sapienza University ), Professor Fausto Zevi ( professor of Roman Archaeology at Rome's La Sapienza University ) and Professor Henner von Hesberg ( head of the German Archaeological Institute, Rome ) denied the identification of the grotto with Lupercal on topographic and stylistic grounds.

Several former northern villages and archaeological sites date from the Green Sahara period of 7500-7000 to 3500-3000 BCE.

Phoenician inscriptions have been found in archaeological sites at a number of former Phoenician cities and colonies around the Mediterranean, such as Byblos ( in present-day Lebanon ) and Carthage in North Africa.

The Squirrel Hill Site, an archaeological site and the location of a former Monongahela village, is located in St. Clair Township near the borough of New Florence.

The Kish archaeological site is actually an oval area roughly 5 miles by 2 miles, transected by the dry former bed of the Euphrates River, encompassing around 40 mounds, the largest being Uhaimir and Ingharra.

This was a critique of the former period in archaeology, the Culture-Historical phase in which archaeologists thought that any information which artifacts contained about past people and past ways of life was lost once the items became included in the archaeological record.

It incorporates a large part of the methods and theories developed in quantitative archaeology since the 1960s but goes beyond former attempts at quantifying archaeology by exploring ways to represent general archaeological information and problem structures as computer algorithms and data structures.

In former years, an archaeological field school offered through Harvard's Summer School Program, conducted in the residential area outside the monumental core, has provoked controversy amongst local archaeologists.

The archaeological history of this huge area was reconstructed through the work of Dr Franklin Toker: remains of Roman houses, an early Christian pavement, ruins of the former cathedral of Santa Reparata and successive enlargements of this church.

There is a long-standing local legend that there was a Roman settlement on the south bank of the River Wear on what is the site of the former Vaux Brewery, although no archaeological investigation has taken place.

Holtorf highlighted that there were similarities between academic and alternative archaeological interpretations, with the former taking some influence from the latter.

In the archaeological record, there is considerable evidence of occupation to the north of Aldwych, but much along the former foreshore has been covered by rubble from the demolition of the Tudor Somerset Place, a former Royal residence, to create a large platform for the building of the first Somerset House, in the 17th century.

These terms are gradually going out of use, since the former lack of archaeological evidence in a period that was mute in its lack of inscriptions ( thus " dark ") has been shown to be an accident of discovery rather than a fact of history.

Lindos ( in Greek: Λίνδος ) is an archaeological site, a town and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece.

Local folklore from the area around the former K ' iche ' capital of Q ' umarkaj preserves the belief that he was buried at the small archaeological site of Atalaya, from Q ' umarkaj itself.

To date, more than a thousand fragments with similar inscriptions have been found on various archaeological sites throughout south-eastern Europe, notably in Greece ( Dispilio Tablet ), Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia, Romania, eastern Hungary, Moldova, and southern Ukraine.

One significant archaeological find was in the early 2000s at the western edge of Rayleigh, at the site of the former Park School in Rawreth Lane.

* Dora, Ancient Greek and Roman name for a former town ; see Tel Dor, an archaeological site

The line of the wall around the church can easily be seen, as can portions of the former castle, and initial archaeological study of the site postulated that the castle built by Justinian had utilised stones from an earlier structure on the site ( probably the Samaritan temple ).

Like many archaeological textiles most of the finds are only fragments of knitted items so that in most cases their former appearance and use is unknown.