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remains and stone
* Archaeological research focuses on items left behind during people ’ s activities: fragments of pottery vessels, garbage, human remains, stone tools or evidence left from the construction of dwellings.
In 2007, Geoffrey Robertson QC alleged that Phillip's remains are no longer in St Nicholas Church, Bathampton and have been lost: "... Captain Arthur Phillip is not where the ledger stone says he is: it may be that he is buried somewhere outside, it may simply be that he is simply lost.
The town contains the remains of a medieval stone castle built soon after the Norman conquest of Wales.
In 1897 the foundation stone was laid of a large concrete structure, but there was insufficient money to complete the work and the " Harbour arm " remains uncompleted.
Despite the ape-like morphology of the bodies, H. habilis remains are often accompanied by primitive stone tools ( e. g. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and Lake Turkana, Kenya ).
Sartre, who stated in his preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth that, “ To shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time: there remains a dead man and a free man ”, has been criticized by Anderson and Michael Walzer for supporting the killing of European civilians by the FLN during the Algerian War.
Foundation remains of stone slab-or gable-shrines, or the cella memoriae of Mediterranean origin, may sometimes have been misunderstood in an earlier era of scholarship as a kistvaen, and the subject is complicated by this " woolly nomenclature.
The stone remains as a memorial even though his body was later disinterred and reburied in Hanover, Germany, the grave being marked with a marble copy of his 1929 sculpture Die Herbstzeitlose.
To print an image lithographically, the flat surface of the stone plate is roughened slightly — etched — and divided into hydrophilic regions that accept a film of water, and thereby repel the greasy ink ; and hydrophobic regions that repel water and accept ink because the surface tension is greater on the greasy image area, which remains dry.
Using lithographic turpentine, the printer then removes any excess of the greasy drawing material, but a hydrophobic molecular film of it remains tightly bonded to the surface of the stone, rejecting the gum arabic and water, but ready to accept the oily ink.
Among these remains a Buddha head and stone foundations of a Vihara deserve special mention.
These stupas and other archaeological remains, like foundations of Buddhist buildings Vihara, compound walls and stone baths, are found on many islands of the Maldives.
But meritocratic governance within the bureaucracy remains a key stone of Chinese government all the way to the present.
The ruins of Nineveh are surrounded by the remains of a massive stone and mudbrick wall dating from about 700 BC.
There is currently a memorial ledger stone in the choir of the Cathedral, as well as a stone plaque on the bridge where his remains were allegedly thrown into the Soar.
These stone sockets are only partly known ( hence on present evidence are sometimes described as forming ‘ crescents ’); however, they could be the remains of a double ring.
Excavations were once again carried out in 1978 by Atkinson and John Evans during which they discovered the remains of the Stonehenge Archer in the outer ditch, and in 1979 rescue archaeology was needed alongside the Heel Stone after a cable-laying ditch was mistakenly dug on the roadside, revealing a new stone hole next to the Heel Stone.
Due to the practice, dating to at least the early Neolithic, of building in stone on virtually treeless islands, Shetland is extremely rich in physical remains of the prehistoric eras and there are over 5, 000 archaeological sites all told.
Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.
Along with ongoing excavations ( in season ) and excavated remains, a full size replica of a section of Hadrian's Wall in both stone and timber can be seen on the site.
Cishan dates for common millet husk phytoliths and biomolecular components have been identified around 8300 – 6700 BC in storage pits along with remains of pit-houses, pottery, and stone tools related to millet cultivation.
Knowledge of such clothing remains inferential, since clothing materials deteriorate quickly compared to stone, bone, shell and metal artifacts.
These include stone tools, bone tools and pottery fragments together with mammalian remains.
Her remains were taken to Bergen and buried beside her mother in the stone wall, on the north side of the choir, in Christ's Kirk at Bergen.

remains and wall
An early terrace wall supports a precinct in which are a stoa and some remains of temples ; these were excavated by the British School at Athens in 1894, but little was found.
Most international versions of the show remain quite similar to each other in that their main format remains true to the original fly on the wall, observational style, with the emphasis being on human relationships.
If a second compression test is performed shortly thereafter, and the new reading is much higher, it would be the ring seal that is problematic, whereas if the compression test pressure observed remains low, it is a valve sealing ( or more rarely head gasket, or breakthrough piston or rarer still cylinder wall damage ) issue.
The kingdoms were separated by a wall whose remains are still preserved today.
Excavations made in 1879 and 1880 led to the discovery of the remains of this station, arranged round three sides of a courtyard some 100 ft. square, including traces of baths and other buildings, and a massive embanking wall above them, some 150 ft. in length, to protect them from landslips, while a discharge certificate ( tabula honestae missionis ) of sailors who had served in the Ravenna's fleet was found in some ruins here or hereabouts.
Made possible by a grant from MOMA that had originally been intended to help restore the Hannover original, one wall of this last structure is now in the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle ; the shell of the barn remains in Elterwater, near Ambleside.
Few Roman remains are visible today ; a fragment of the old city wall can be seen near the casino and the foundations of the amphitheatre are traced in the paving of the present-day Rembrandtstraat.
The Wailing Wall is all that remains of the Western wall of the Temple in Jerusalem.
The western retaining wall of the original temple, known as the Wailing Wall, or Western Wall remains in the Old City of Jerusalem and this has been the most sacred site for religious Jews.
As long as it remains superfluid, it creeps up the wall of the cup as a thin film.
Noted archaeological remains found in Akrotiri are wall paintings or frescoes, which have kept their original colour well, as they were preserved under many metres of volcanic ash.
The remains of the wall and other evidence like it have been discovered by the excavations of Andrea Carandini.
No trace is, however, found of a more extensive circuit, though the remains of two lines of wall, evidently connected with the port, are found in the small valley east of the city.
Also of the monastery there still remains the south wall of the refectory, with a fine window.
No trace of it is left, but Aubrey noted " At Verulam is to be seen, in some few places, some remains of the wall of this Citie " ( see illustration ).
A thick portion of the castle wall and water gate can still be seen on West Quay, and the remains of a wall of a building that was probably built within the castle can be viewed in Queen Street.
Nowadays Zutphen has one of the best preserved medieval town centres of North-Western Europe, including the remains of the medieval town wall and a few hundred buildings dating from the 13th-15th century.
In the wall bounding Moreen is still to be seen a small watch-tower and the remains of a guard-house adjoining it.
Perhaps the most important find is the remains of a large stone wall which may have been long and up to wide.
In the north wall of Nimroud fifty-eight towers have been traced, and at Kouyunjik there are large remains of three walls, the lower part being of stone, and the upper of sun-dried bricks.
At Khorsabad there are the remains of a wall, still high, built of blocks of stone 3 to thick, and the evidences wanting as to finishing of these is completely supplied by the sculptures, which show an extraordinary resemblance to medieval works of the same class.
The paving of the causeway in the monastic city is still preserved in part but very little remains of the enclosure wall.

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