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4th August 2009, 11:30 AM
I am confused by most of what you say, Unitof1, which does not appear to be an uncommon reaction. Are you calling for the complete removal of EH and NT from the running of stately homes etc and for each place to be run by a local 'team', presumably as a local institution for local people? :face-huh:
As far as i can tell from the 2 areas i spend my time in, EH and NT do good work. Dover Castle is currently running a very good thing on the archaeology of the keep and grounds, the similar castles at Walmer and Deal are well run and looked after, and Knole just finished ( a couple i years ago, i think) an extensive restoration of the roof and timbers, as seen on Time Team, sigh.
Up North, Dunstanburgh, the Farnes and Cragside are all managed by NT and are again presented well, with Cragside having just had the old Vicotiran bridge restored to a high standard. Similarly the Rievaulx terraces are a useful ongoing archaeological aid for thsoe studying park and garden archaeology, and the work of Capability Brown.
What's not to like? I understand this may be a prod at a wasps nest but i quite like the preservation of national architecture by national bodies.
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4th August 2009, 11:47 AM
Who gives a toss any more? Can't this be put to bed Mr. Hosty? I think it's about time Unitof1's senile and uninteresting ramblings were packed off somewhere else for good.
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4th August 2009, 12:09 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Curator Kid
Who gives a toss any more? Can't this be put to bed Mr. Hosty? I think it's about time Unitof1's senile and uninteresting ramblings were packed off somewhere else for good.
I was actually thinking that David had the problem pretty much under control.
Uo1 knows they are here under a warning and I kinda like the idea that they have their own 'page'. I admit it sometimes reads like a script to a Bulgarian opera, but I'm not so sure that we should be denying Uo1 an outlet for wittering, providing they keep within the AUP. There are plenty of other BAJR 'channels' that more discerning readers can tune into if they wish. It's banal, true but essentially harmless....and it surely does none of us any harm to be reminded how close we all sail to genuine lunacy....
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4th August 2009, 12:49 PM
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Quote:quote:Originally posted by Curator Kid
Who gives a toss any more? Can't this be put to bed Mr. Hosty? I think it's about time Unitof1's senile and uninteresting ramblings were packed off somewhere else for good.
I was actually thinking that David had the problem pretty much under control.
Uo1 knows they are here under a warning and I kinda like the idea that they have their own 'page'. I admit it sometimes reads like a script to a Bulgarian opera, but I'm not so sure that we should be denying Uo1 an outlet for wittering, providing they keep within the AUP. There are plenty of other BAJR 'channels' that more discerning readers can tune into if they wish. It's banal, true but essentially harmless....and it surely does none of us any harm to be reminded how close we all sail to genuine lunacy....
I thought he was just reciting Mark E Smith lyrics - "the lebensraum extension question" anyone?
Besides, when it makes sense, which isn't often I find myself strangely drawn towards many of The Unit's opinions!
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4th August 2009, 12:53 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by RedEarth
I thought he was just reciting Mark E Smith lyrics - "the lebensraum extension question" anyone?
Besides, when it makes sense, which isn't often I find myself strangely drawn towards many of The Unit's opinions!
Would you be suggesting that Unitof1 is a Kurious Oranj :face-huh:
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4th August 2009, 01:10 PM
I hadn't thought of Uo1 in terms of the lyrical output of The Fall, but now you mention it.....
I'm fit and working again?Walk down the road in the sun, I make a path through a forty strong gang?My sick, think I've seen the tail end. I used to hang like a chandelier my lungs encrusted in blood but the flex is now cut clear. Took me ten years to write this song?.I used to think this bog was the domain?Opinion is at most one stimulus reason?If you've got the most With the true precis?Analysis is academic
...and of course if Mark E Smith can now be regarded as a 'national treasure', perhaps it is only days and weeks before Uo1 is elevated to the same status.....Is there a national body for 'national treasures'?
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4th August 2009, 01:17 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by kevin wooldridge
perhaps it is only days and weeks before Uo1 is elevated to the same status.....Is there a national body for 'national treasures'?
Wouldn't that be EH or NT? :face-stir:
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4th August 2009, 01:35 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by kevin wooldridge
.....Is there a national body for 'national treasures'?
I don't believe so. But there is a diabolical cod-archaeological film franchise starring Nicolas Cage [xx(]
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4th August 2009, 01:41 PM
Re Bolingbroke, I'm fairly sure, Uo1. The castle wouldn't appear on the list of properties on our website if it wasn't still officially in state care. That list entry does refer to the local management agreement with a link to the Heritage Lincs website, and their web page for Bolingbroke also refers to the EH ownership of the site.
As for what's in the file about the 1949 transfer (to the Ministry of Works?), I don't know, I'm afraid. I don't work on that side of the organisation. I just get my hands dirty occasionally when digging at some of the sites.
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4th August 2009, 01:50 PM
Cod archaeology?
See: James Barrett et al., [u]Detecting the medieval cod trade: a new method and first results</u>. Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2008, 850-861.
This paper explores the potential of stable isotope analysis to identify the approximate region of catch of cod by analysing bones from medieval settlements in northern and western Europe. It measures the #948;13C and #948;15N values of cod bone collagen from medieval control samples collected from sites around Arctic Norway, the North Sea, the Kattegat and the Baltic Sea. These data were considered likely to differ by region due to, for example, variation in the length of the food chain, water temperature and salinity. We find that geographical structuring is indeed evident, making it possible to identify bones from cod caught in distant waters. These results provide a new methodology for studying the growth of long-range trade in dried cod and the related expansion of fishing effort?important aspects of the development of commercialisation in medieval Europe. As a first test of the method, we analyse three collections of cod bones tentatively interpreted as imported dried fish based on a priori zooarchaeological criteria. The results tentatively suggest that cod were being transported or traded over very long distances since the end of the first millennium AD.
