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Wessex Archaeology

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Phil Harding (archaeologist)

...the Department of the Environment . In 1979 the archaeological section of the DOE for the region became Wessex Archaeology, a non-profit organisation which is one of the biggest...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Venta Silurum

...a chi-rho symbol gives evidence of early Christian worship from the late 3rd century. In 2008, a dig involving Wessex Archaeology and volunteers from the local Chepstow Archaeology...

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Boing Boing | 3 months ago

Delicious sprinkles on everything photoshopping contest

Apparently, Phil hasn't been seen in quite some time but his disappearance has only no... More. The non-profit Wessex Archaeology organization created a virtual fly-over of...

Boing Boing | 3 months ago

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...Promising a "vacation in a bottle" or an "acupuncture session in every can," makers of anti... More. The non-profit Wessex Archaeology organization created a virtual fly-over of...

Boing Boing | 3 months ago

Bad-ass Mad Max campout weekend, complete with working gyrocopter!

...is a symmetrical bell curve. In other words, half the women are better-tha... More. The non-profit Wessex Archaeology organization created a virtual fly-over of Stonehenge and...

Boing Boing | 3 months ago

Stonehenge: virtual 3D animation

The non-profit Wessex Archaeology organization created a virtual fly-over of Stonehenge and vicinity based on LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data collected from the air. From the...

Boing Boing | 3 months ago

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...are these incredible vehicles and costumes -- but those are some damned stylish and attract... More. The non-profit Wessex Archaeology organization created a virtual fly-over of...

Wikipedia | 4 months ago

Julian Richards

...Record. He excavated and carried out a survey of the Berkshire Downs. In 1980 he joined the new group Wessex Archaeology, based in Salisbury. He ran the Stonehenge Environs Project, a...

"It's something that we've dreamed about-that we knew was out there somewhere," said Phil Harding of the U.K. nonprofit Wessex Archaeology. "But I guess most of us in our lifetime wouldn't have believed that something was going to crop up like that,"

Stone Age Hand Axes Found at Bottom of North Sea National Geographic News | 2 years ago

Wikipedia | 5 months ago

Stonehenge in its landscape

...presenting the complex stratigraphy and the finds recovered from the site. In 1993 English Heritage commissioned Wessex Archaeology to prepare such a volume. The work involved detailed...

Wikipedia | 11 months ago

HMS London (1654)

...authorities changing the route of the shipping channel to prevent further damage and to allow archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology led by Frank Pope to investigate, leading to what was...

Wikipedia | 1 year ago

Wessex Archaeology

Founded in 1974 as the Trust for Wessex Archaeology by members of the earlier Wessex Archaeological Committee, it took its present name in 1979 and became one of the first rescue...

Times of India | 1 year ago

Stonehenge was place of healing

...me the single strongest piece of evidence," he said. Andrew Fitzpatrick, from British heritage group Wessex Archaeology, said Darvill and Wainwright's discovery was "very important"...