Database of the Roman Purbeck limestone industry
© Copyright John Palmer.
This is work in progress.
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Each item usually describes an artefact or a group of artefacts from
a single site. Some that give summary information about many artefacts
are placed in the section Reviews.
In distribution-maps, filled triangles show findspots of
Purbeck Marble objects, open triangles other Purbeck
limestone, question-marks doubtful objects. Coastal outlines
are from NOAA.
The public version of this database
is a copy of a fuller version which I keep for my own use.
For publication, I have to omit
(a) some pictures, for lack of permission from the copyright holder,
(b) some personal data about individuals who have been very helpful to me,
(c) some sensitive information about particular archaeological sites.
If a link in the public database doesn't work (gives "404: page not found"),
this is likely to be because it refers to something of this sort.
Illustrations, other than those in the text, will be displayed
by most browsers in a separate window. So will ancient texts,
some plans or maps, and the guide to my
system of
measuring stone mortars.
- name Unique name for this item
- numberSerial no. in this catalogue; so far only used in
Roofing section
- catCategory; "mortarium", "veneer", etc, also
"review"; used inconsistently
- site Provenance; placename(s), where found; date of finding
where known
- grid National Grid coordinates of site (outside GB, follow
local practice)
- source source of first (often incomplete) information
- publ Publication details,
reference to Bibliography
- desc General description
- loc Present location of artefact;
museum, catalogue-number
- subst Substance, e.g: limestone, Purbeck limestone (PL),
Purbeck marble (PM)
- date of artefact
- interp Interpretation
- comment Comment
- cont Person to contact
- AP aerial photograph
- BAR British Archaeological Reports
- BBCS Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies
- BGS British Geological Survey
- BIAB British and Irish
Archaeological Bibliography
- BSL Broken Shell Limestone (see the
Geological detail section)
- BVC Brading Villa Collection (Isle of Wight)
- CIL Corpus Inscriptionum
Latinarum, 1863--, of which vol.vii is Inscriptiones
Britanniae Latinae, ed. Aemilius Hübner, Berlin 1873
- CSIR Corpus signorum imperii romani, Corpus of sculpture of the Roman world
- cx Context number; often written in a circle on finds labels
- DCM Dorset County Museum, High West Street, Dorchester
- DORCM same as DCM
- EE Ephemeris Epigraphica, 1872-1913
- HAT Highest astronomical tide (attained every 19 years)
- HER Historic Environment Record, new name for Sites and Monuments Record
- IWCAC Isle of Wight County Archaeological Collection
- JP The author
- JRS Journal of Roman Studies
- KS Kimmeridge Shale
- MHWS Mean high water of spring tides
- MoL Museum of London; MOL minimum occupation level (near tidal water)
- MoLAS Museum of London Archaeology Service
- NMR National Monuments Record (English Heritage, Swindon)
- NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (United
States)
- NOI No other information
- ns not (yet) seen (by JP); NS new series
- NT National Trust
- OD Ordnance (Survey) datum
- PDNHAFC former title for PDNHAS, see
below
- PDNHAS
Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society.
Volumes 1-49 (1877-1928) were entitled
Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club.
- PHFCAS Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and
Archaeological Society
- PL Purbeck Limestone
- PM Purbeck Marble
- PS Portland Stone
- RAMM Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
- RB Roman Britain, Romano-British
- RIB Roman Inscriptions in
Britain
- SF, sf Small find [number]; often written in a triangle on finds labels
- Soc Antiqs Res Rep Research Reports of the Society of
Antiquaries of London
- SMR Sites and Monuments Record
- TAQ Terminus ante quem, the latest possible date for
an event or artefact
- TBGAS Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester
Archaeological Society
- TPQ Terminus post quem, the earliest possible date for
an event or artefact
- WAM Wiltshire Archaeology and Natural History Magazine.
From vol. 70 (1978) to vol. 75 (1981),
entitled Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine.
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