Archaeologists unearth rare 15th century Valencian pottery in Surrey town.Byline: ANI Washington, August 8 (ANI): Archaeologists, carrying out excavations at an historic landmark in Woking, Surrey, UK, have unearthed Unearthed is the name of a Triple J project to find and "dig up" (hence the name) hidden talent in regional Australia. Unearthed has had three incarnations - they first visited each region of Australia where Triple J had a transmitter - 41 regions in all. rare Valencian pottery, which date back to between 1450 and 1490. According to a report in getsurrey, teams from Surrey County Council Heritage Enterprise have led the dig at Woking Palace along with Surrey Archaeological Society. Also present were teams from the University of Surrey The University of Surrey is a public university in Guildford, England. It received its charter on 9 September 1966, and was situated near Battersea Park in south-west London. The institution was known as Battersea College of Technology before gaining university status. and University College London “UCL” redirects here. For other uses, see UCL (disambiguation). University College London, commonly known as UCL, is the oldest multi-faculty constituent college of the University of London, one of the two original founding colleges, and the first British . Armed with trowels, hand-shovels and buckets, people from the local community have also volunteered at the Carter's Lane site. Abby Guinness, Surrey County Council's community archaeologist, directed the eight volunteers side by side along with more experienced diggers Diggers, members of a small English religio-economic movement (fl. 1649–50), so called because they attempted to dig (i.e., cultivate) the wastelands. They were an offshoot of the more important group of Puritan extremists known as the Levelers. into a tight line to trowel back small sections of the soil. As volunteers pulled back the dirt, stones and pieces of tile were uncovered. They were asked to put the pieces of tile into a finds box while the pebbles and dirt were scooped up into a bucket and discarded. Richard Savage, chairman of the Friends of Woking Palace, said that the archaeological excavations taking place this year were just the beginning of a scheduled three-year programme. He said that the trench areas had been found using a magnetometry survey and a resistivity resistivity Electrical resistance of a conductor of unit cross-sectional area and unit length. The resistivity of a conductor depends on its composition and its temperature. survey - geophysical methods used to look below the soil without digging. "We have found tiles that have only been found in a few places in England
This is a list of pages listing places in each ceremonial county of England; with the exception of the ceremonial counties of the East Riding of Yorkshire, North . They were made in Valencia, Spain, and date back to between 1450 and 1490," he said. "They have been found in Billericay in Essex, Woking Palace, St Peter's in Old Woking and in Guildford High Street. We think that there were only a couple of shipments brought into England," he added. Savage said they expected to find material from the Tudor period and from the first manor built on the site. "We are hoping to find pottery and other things we would define as medieval," he added. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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