Archive for 'PhD'
Thesis Abstract
The main focus of this thesis is to establish the usefulness of a timber joint typology, produced by dendrochronology between AD1250 and 1530, in the dating of previously undated buildings, along with the recalibration of Cecil Hewett’s published typologies (Hewett 1980). This contention is addressed, in Hampshire, through the physical surveying of 95 properties, and [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2010 under PhD, research.
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A Prezi about my background
The Prezi is a brief background as to why I undertook my research in the first place.
Posted: July 2nd, 2010 under PhD, digital archaeology.
Tags: background, buildings archaeology, digital archaeology, dissemination, freeware, hampshire, Prezi, research, research tools, timber-framed
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The Tripartite Plan
Social theories
In the late medieval domestic plan, the social structure was articulated by employment of the main structural posts of the timber frame, in order to provide clear divisions of space (Gardiner 2000,159). Although the term ‘feudal’ is often used to describe the social and military structure of the late medieval period – especially in older textbooks – modern thinking tends to “shy away from the term ‘feudalism’”
Posted: April 6th, 2010 under PhD, digital archaeology, research.
Tags: liminal, lower end, open hall, pantry, timber-framed, tripartite
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The Thesis is in!
Thanks to all those who have helped and supported me, and an extra big thanks to all the home owners who let me into their wonderful homes PS I did get an email from a home owner a month or so back offering me a chance to visit their house, I have lost that email [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 under PhD.
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June 2009: Dendrochronology Database updated
June 2009: Dendrochronology Database updated
Posted: June 21st, 2009 under PhD, digital archaeology, research.
Tags: buildings archaeology, dendrochronology, digital archiving, dissemination, research, research tools
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