Exploring the relationship between metalwork, ceramic material and historic human activity.

探索金属制品、陶瓷材料和历史人类活动之间的关系。

• 批准号: 2711243
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2711243
• 关键词: Exploring; relationship; between; metalwork; ceramic

The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a project run by the British Museum which records finds made by metal detectorists. The result of this project is a vast quantity of closely dated and accurately located finds which can shape our understanding of the landscape since the Iron Age. This data is, however, currently underutilised within studies of the historic landscape, in part due to issues of interpretation; how are the distribution of finds related to settlement, agriculture and other activities? My PhD research will compare the distribution of ceramic material produced by 'fieldwalking' with metalwork recovered by detecting to identify the signatures of settlement, manuring and other human activity in the pattern of small metal finds recovered. From this, a method to utilise the relationship between metalwork and past landscapes will be developed, something that can be applied to data from the PAS to change our understanding of settlement in the Roman and medieval periods.Through the use of test metal detecting and fieldwalking in East Suffolk, on targets provided by traditional forms of archaeological study, typical assemblages recovered from archaeological sites of a known date and size can be ascertained, enabling the relationship between ceramics, metalwork from the plough soil and past human activity to be understood. This relationship can then be extrapolated to aid in the identification of settlement and past human activity in PAS data, accounting for biases inherent in the method of deposition of objects in the plough soil as well as the patterns of searching by metal detectorists.

便携式文物计划是大英博物馆的一个项目，记录金属探测器的发现。该项目的结果是大量的密切日期和准确定位的发现，可以塑造我们对铁器时代以来景观的理解。然而，这些数据目前在历史景观研究中未得到充分利用，部分原因是解释问题;与定居、农业和其他活动有关的发现分布如何？我的博士研究将比较“野外行走”产生的陶瓷材料的分布与通过检测发现的金属制品，以确定定居，施肥和其他人类活动在小型金属发现模式中的特征。由此，将开发出一种利用金属制品与过去景观之间关系的方法，该方法可以应用于PAS的数据，以改变我们对罗马和中世纪时期定居点的理解。通过使用测试金属探测和野外行走在东萨福克，针对传统考古研究形式提供的目标，从已知日期和规模的考古遗址中发现的典型组合可以确定，从而使人们能够了解犁土中的陶瓷和金属制品与过去人类活动之间的关系。这种关系，然后可以外推，以帮助在PAS数据中的解决和过去的人类活动的识别，占固有的偏见，在犁土壤中的对象的沉积方法，以及金属探测器的搜索模式。