tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43311961598087354512024-02-06T21:14:33.442-08:00JORDAN 2014 GARP Dig PlusRoger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-76606822709294773882017-08-18T11:20:00.002-07:002017-08-18T11:21:56.298-07:00MHL Cassino - the Battle Of Cassino Project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We are delighted to formally announce our next major venture - MHL Cassino (The Battle of Cassino Project). <a href="http://www.mhlcassino.co.uk/">www.mhlcassino.co.uk</a><br />
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This really exciting, long-term project involves the investigation of the archaeological features associated with the iconic Battle of Cassino in central Italy between 1943 and 1944, where some of the most ferocious fighting of WW2 occurred. For more information, please have a look at mhlcassino.co.uk . We expect huge interest in this project, as so many people were involved in the fighting from a large number of countries. If you are interested in finding out more, and maybe being involved as a volunteer, we are taking first-come first-served expressions of interest (with no obligation at this stage) via the Contact page on the website. <a href="http://www.mhlcassino.co.uk/">www.mhlcassino.co.uk</a><br />
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You don’t have to be an historian, or an archaeologist, or have any previous experience of this type of work - this is a new form of adventure tourism where experts and enthusiasts work together to unearth and reveal the amazing history.<br />
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Please also share to any groups you belong to who may have relatives that were involved in the fighting there. (It’s astonishing how many people we have spoken to already that have said ‘my father/grandfather etc fought there’) - this is a chance to be part of the team documenting this fascinating history for posterity.<br />
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Please re-share to any/all interested friends and groups - thanks</div>
Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-49539328326773357372017-01-08T11:06:00.001-08:002017-01-08T11:11:00.905-08:00Military History Live<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-87826628049996859252016-11-08T02:15:00.001-08:002016-11-08T02:15:44.408-08:00GARP Lecture at British Museum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nick Saunders will be speaking at the British Museum on Thursday 1st December<br />
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Lawrence and the Arab Revolt: archaeology of a desert insurgency 1916–1918<br />
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Thursday 1 December 2016, 16.00–17.00<br />
BP Lecture Theatre<br />
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Between 2005 and 2014, Bristol University’s ‘Great Arab Revolt Project’ investigated the archaeology and anthropology of the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918 in southern Jordan.<br />
The discoveries were extraordinary. Expecting to find only the ruins of Hejaz Railway stations destroyed by T E Lawrence and the Arabs, they discovered instead a vast conflict landscape of guerrilla actions and counter-insurgency tactics unknown to anyone except the Bedouin. In this lecture, Nicholas Saunders, University of Bristol, reveals the Ottoman army camps, railway ambushes, Rolls-Royce armoured car raiding camps, hilltop forts, machinegun strong-points, and a long-forgotten Royal Flying Corps landing strip that all emerged from the desert where modern guerrilla warfare was forged. Ten years of fieldwork investigated the archaeology of conflict produced in less than 18 months, from August 1917 until November 1918.<br />
This event forms the 2016 Palestine Exploration Fund Evans Memorial Lecture jointly with ASTENE.<br />
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Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-84980484805229048872016-10-31T09:17:00.002-07:002016-10-31T09:17:22.532-07:00More media reports relating to the exhibition at Newark.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-66413252014594923152016-09-07T10:46:00.003-07:002016-09-07T10:46:36.029-07:00Exhibition News<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The exhibition which features the work of the project will take place in Newark, UK between October 2016 and the Spring of 2017. Items on display will include artefacts found by the team in various important sites associated with the Great Arab Revolt, including Lawrence's secret desert camp, sites of battle between the opposing forces, Ottoman camp sites and the location of the train ambush. </div>
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Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-74897865068493998712016-05-04T11:01:00.003-07:002016-05-04T11:01:31.937-07:00Video: The Making of the Middle East 1914-1918: Lawrence of Arabia's War<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Guardian and Guardian letters: Lawrence of Arabia and the Rise of ISIS. Click picture below for the article<br />
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Jan Woolf has a letter referring to her upcoming play. Click picture below for link to the letters.<br />
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Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-28256782257434185502016-04-10T09:13:00.003-07:002016-04-10T09:13:41.303-07:00Portsmouth Book Launch event<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As part of Portsmouth Festivities, another book launch event:<br />
20 Jun 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm<br />
St John’s College Auditorium and Drama Studio PO5 3QW<br />
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Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-66036102057478591962016-04-08T00:51:00.001-07:002016-04-08T00:57:35.635-07:00More World Wide coverage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-11362614112764989692016-04-06T02:15:00.001-07:002016-04-06T02:15:25.155-07:00Bristol University - first article<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-36280506163875644672016-04-02T03:31:00.001-07:002016-04-02T03:31:30.517-07:00More press reports and a radio interview<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
More is revealed about the places and discoveries during the project.<br />
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Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-16589823751094448162016-03-31T05:27:00.005-07:002016-03-31T05:27:58.557-07:00Newspaper reports of the project and ongoing progress<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Times and the Daily Mail both carry articles on the GARP project today. Links below.<br />
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Internet here is very intermittent today, and won't allow uploading of images, so the final blog posts will have to wait for a couple of days until we get home.<div>
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For now, just to let all loved ones and friends know, we are all here, safe and well, have enjoyed a fantastic season, and thank you all so much for following our exploits. More soon, hopefully...</div>
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Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-80289177510426070562014-11-28T04:29:00.002-08:002014-11-28T13:13:24.469-08:00Friday - Train, trips, tiredness, treat and wrap-up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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First, a couple of videos from yesterday's train ride, courtesy of our friend Sate. You can easily spot the rail joins!</div>
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It's hard to see, but the fort is located on the top edge of the slight incline descending left to right, about 1/3 across the image from the left. This image is taken from the area of the tented encampment on the flat plain which sits just above the main drop down the escarpment into the Arabian desert. The position of the fort is perfect, offering commanding views of the whole area looking south, including the camp and down into Batn Al Ghul.</div>
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This afternoon was our final project wrap-up session, with talks from the directors and the opportunity for questions, comments and discussion about the season and then plans for the ongoing work and publications. This also included a show and tell session of all the finds from this year, which produced further lively, interested discussion. </div>
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Yesterday was our last proper digging day of this season, and in fact of the project. Today we had the opportunity to have a ride along the Hijaz railway from Ma'an down to Wadi Rutm on a small boxy train, giving a real feel for the experience the Ottomans would have had when doing the same journey through this landscape almost 100 years ago. </div>
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First post today is a question for you. One of the team spotted a rather unusual find in the desert today. Can you see it in the image below? Answers later...<br />
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In the meantime, here are some more pictures from the work site, which is the southern most of three related fortifications along the Hijaz down towards Mudawarra.</div>
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The largest feature here is a ring shaped fortification with deep trenches, shown in the image above. This has been excavated back to the base.<br />
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Meanwhile other team members worked on smaller, nearby features.</div>
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Some good guesses as to the find in the first picture - it's easier to see in this one above, and the images below reveal it's true nature.</div>
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It's the front of a small Meerschaum pipe bowl, just over an inch tall, which would have been the sort used by higher ranking personnel as it differs from the large, chunky ones used by the conscripted men. The pictures show it replaced in a cleaned up area of the sand, and initially it was in amongst much more desert debris. This little man looked up from the desert at us after ying there for around 100 years, and we found him. </div>
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Several of us went back to the site of an RFC airstrip, this time to look at an area in another rocky indent around the corner from the heavily trashed and wet region visited on Sunday. More success this time, with identifiable finds in our areas of interest, including tin cans and munitions of the period. </div>
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On the way there we stopped near the entrance to Wadi Rum to look at the Ottoman attack tourist experience train. This is supposed to be a simulation of an attack on the train during 1916, but the authenticity of many elements in the 'experience' are, shall we say, subject to poetic licence. Anyway, the train is interesting. As is the cafe stop near the railway at this point., and the puppy that was there.<br />
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At the site the detectorists undertook a quick sweep and found a couple of 303 cartridge cases. Also an eyes only find of a fragment of rum jar was quickly spotted. These finds confirmed we were in the right area for a British encampment, so the rest of the day was spent systematically clearing the surface of the region of both rubbish metal and metal finds of interest, by field walking in strips across the landscape. Then the area was metal detected in a methodical way, with parallel traverses until the whole area had been covered. Over the course of the day the finds assemblage was completely consistent with that of a typical WW1 British army camp in this region.<br />
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The landscape here on the edge of Wadi Rum is stunning. Weathered rocks, hills and mountains loom above the extensive mixed vistas of both flat and sandy dunes.<br />
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Most of us went in to Petra on our first day off this season. Here's a picture - many more to follow later.<br />
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Pictures from several team members from the day off today. They show a variety of views of the wonders of Petra, including images taken from some of the very high places. Also shown are pictures of the amphitheatre, the 5th century Greek church mosaics and the Siq - the long, winding downhill route which follows a crack in the mountain to the main entrance to the city. Once there the first structure encountered is the Treasury - Al Khazneh. Some of the images taken from very high points are looking down on this from above. </div>
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This collection of pictures will increase as more of the team send me their images. If you click on one image then they are all displayed in a sequence. If anyone has questions about the pictures please make a comment and I will try to answer.</div>
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Today's blog will concentrate on the efforts of a small team to identify and hopefully obtain evidence of a Royal Flying Corps airstrip near Wadi Rum.</div>
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The road to Wadi Rum is interesting and beautiful, with huge rocky vistas and mountains near and distant. </div>
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The location of the site had previously been identified from another set of photographs which show the aircraft of X Flight in temporary canvas hangers in front of a very distinctive rock formation. After many hours and trips searching for these the definitive location was found, which in the photographs shows the hangers adjacent to a large, flat strip of sand ideally suited to take-off and landing. </div>
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Today however it is a different story. The site had originally been chosen by the RFC because as well as providing suitable landscape for the aircraft, there was precious water present. Now this water has been damned in to form a reservoir and a pumping station, as well as a range of buildings and concrete bases for more. Furthermore the land which the airstrip occupied is now very marshy, as both the natural water and leaks from the pumping house have leaked into the surrounding areas.</div>
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In addition this land was given by the King to the Bedouin in the 1960's, to allow them to build properties and make small homesteads. The airstrip location is therefore now within a Bedu compound. This has resulted in a huge amount of trashing and detritus all over the area of interest, particularly in the drier parts near the rocks. The marshiness and the overall level of rubbish in the area made metal detecting almost impossible, and the final straw was that something very close to this area of interest was generating a huge amount of electromagnetic interference, effectively swamping both the fixed and variable frequency detectors.</div>
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One of the purposes of today was to try to find and identify any graffiti or rock etchings which may have been associated with the airmen and their supporting crew. Most of the markings on the rocks were very modern however, and seem to have been made recently by local visitors who had perhaps stopped for food.<br />
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Some of the modern graffiti emulates traditional rock art which can be found in many other places in Southern Jordan, and includes beasts, snakes, human figures and the like. </div>
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The compound has all the elements one would expect of Bedouin life, with animals, food production and storage.</div>
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While we were looking for significant rock markings a local man approached and asked if we had seen the carvings nearby. He then led us about 100 meters to the location below.<br />
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On the way there was a helpful sign, pointing to the location of the carvings we had just seen. On arrival he said he had a museum, which we were invited to view. He fetched the key and showed us into a room containing all sorts of desert artefacts.<br />
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On the wall was an old photograph of his father, now deceased, pointing at the carvings and showing them in a much more pristine state. We reckon the earliest the photograph was likely to have been taken was mid 1960's. The photograph in fact turned out to be a postcard which he gave to one of us as a gift, as he said he had more. </div>
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Then we sat down for some tea and chatted about his family and the history of the place. The hospitality was wonderful, and he refused all offers of money for showing us the carvings and around the museum. Such a great experience and so typical of the serendipitous occurrences that have happened time and time again over the nine years of this project. </div>
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As we were leaving a local sheik came over and we showed him the photographs that had led us there. He was very interested and pointed out the areas on the photographs that we had confirmed.<br />
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Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-36330843139141175842014-11-22T10:15:00.000-08:002014-11-22T11:01:25.854-08:00Saturday - a complex camp<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today we were back at the site of the line walking, to further investigate and attempt to understand many elements and features. The total of the surface and metal detected finds yesterday exceeded 180, with a further 20 or so left behind with mini stone cairns beside them for GPS'ing and collection today. </div>
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Surface scraping in areas of high interest, either by visual observation or metal detection, revealed many more finds for the team to record and analyse for archive purposes later back at the hotel.</div>
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Today we highlight three interesting finds, all metal detected and all found within 5 minutes and 5 metres of each other are shown in the image below.</div>
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From left to right: a Type T Friction Tube (see below for more information); a coin dated 1916 in both Arabic and English script and a British Army Uniform button. Evidence of British military presence as well as members of the Arab forces and also artillery. Although we have found similar artefacts in other sites in previous seasons, these all found together help build a coherent picture of the groups present in this camp.</div>
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The friction tube is an example of a device used to fire field artillery. In effect a predictable, enhanced match, the wire pin (shown at the top of the device in the picture) had a lanyard attached which was pulled sharply to fire the gun. The cylindrical tube (beneath the coin) was inserted into the breech of the gun, and contained black gunpowder which was ignited by the action of sharp removal of the wire pin. The sectional diagram below shows in more detail the internal workings of this device, including the roughened sides of the wire which caused friction inside the tube when pulled n order to start the ignition.</div>
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Another photograph from the archives has come up trumps. On the basis of tracking down the location of two military vehicles that were shown, together with personnel, in front of a craggy hill in the desert, we have found what appears to be another major site of the activities of the Great Arab Revolt Project. Four of us having recce'd the site on Tuesday, there was enough material on the surface of the ground to warrant a full team field walking exercise today to determine the extent of main finds and to look for specific locations requiring further archaeological investigation.</div>
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This site is 2 hours from our base hotel, so leaving at 7.30 am means arriving at site at 9.30. The field walking was quickly set up, with initially a line of around 20 members set at two-three metres apart, with marshals every 5 persons. The job of the marshals was to ensure even pace, steady gaps and to maintain the direction of the line. Eyes down and we're off. The idea is to spot everything that might be of interest on the surface. Once someone sees something, the spotter calls out and the line stops while the object in question is investigated, it's location GPS'd and the item then lifted for later study and recording in our archive.<br />
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We began with one person operating the GPS but it became evident very quickly that the quantity of finds was proving far too great for that, so another and later a third was added to note the finds and their location. </div>
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As the team became more proficient each marshalled group operated independently, so that a find didn't stop the whole line. This technique proved incredibly effective in locating things and also giving a feel for concentrations of material that would benefit from further study. There were indeed lots of finds!</div>
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All the time the detectorists followed behind checking for sub-surface metal, and they also turned up a range of interesting finds.<br />
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There is a lot of interesting material here, and the landscape is impressive. In the images above the finds shown are found in cleared areas. Most of the surface is covered with the sharp, fractured black basalt that typifies the southern Jordanian desert. It's hard to convey the stark beauty of this at either the micro or macro scale. </div>
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The trip to work this morning was beautiful, with the early morning light bouncing off the highway as we travelled south through the barren landscape. Most of the group went back to the excavation site to continue removing literally tons of sand from the fortifications. The difference over a couple of days is amazing. More of that later.</div>
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The detectorists and their co-opted GPS officer for the day spent a while near a previously examined station, first investigated by us in 2006, and mopped up a few incoming rounds and fired cartridge cases. One of the buildings in the station collection is relatively intact. Can you spot the loopholes that were used by those defending the building with rifles?</div>
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Here's two of the team proving conclusively that wild gourds are definitely not metal. We haven't seen many of these plants in fruit over the years, and this one was one of a few clustered together right in the centre of a wadi.</div>
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The bottom of the excavation in the picture above had been left flat and level yesterday. Today on arrival a big hole had appeared - gold hunters had struck! There is a huge perception among ARab peoples that the desert is littered with buried gold, and also that what we are doing is a cover up for looking for it. So, where we dig, they dig. </div>
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Fortunately most of the site was as we had left it. The work continued and over the course of the day many of the structural features of this fortified position were revealed in amazing detail. Trenches, steps, paths and loopholes in the outer wall all came into view. For those that have the idea that archaeology is about finds, this is a really important lesson. The work done here by this fantastic team reveals amazing insights into the construction and operation of a defensive military position. Truly wonderful archaeology. </div>
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Sometimes we find items which are absolutely fixed in the time frame and context of the project. On the basis of a recently obtained photograph some team members went looking for the location of the image. This showed a couple of British armoured vehicles and men parked in the desert, with several strong geographic features in the background. We reckoned it was close to another site where similar vehicles had been known to have stopped and camped, so the search had a good basis to start from.</div>
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The four team members wandered around in the approximate location until the photographic features seemed to be in the right position according to our viewpoint. Everything looked spot on. Then the emphasis shifted to try and find some material evidence that in fact these people and vehicles had actually stopped here. After about half an hour of searching, one of our number found this:</div>
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Beautifully preserved and even dated to November 1917. It's a C & E Morton Ltd. Meat & Veg Rations tin lid, issued to the British army during WW1 and would have been used and left by the Royal Field Artillery members who accompanied the vehicle in the photograph. (which, incidentally, I hope to be able to post in this blog sometime soon). An excellent corroboration of the location and the presence of these men, early in 1918.</div>
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Here are some images of the team hard at work in the field today. Hopefully they give an idea of the place, the climate, the landscape and the atmosphere of the group, as well as the digging and other archaeological activity going on.<br />
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Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4331196159808735451.post-91248209231213375462014-11-18T10:45:00.000-08:002014-11-19T00:28:26.503-08:00Tuesday - first day in the desert 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Our 2014 GARP adventure began today with the news that our much ambivalently regarded mini bus is not available this year,meaning we will be travelling to and from site in a convoy of 4x4 vehicles. Whatever one's view of the bus, it did provide a certain group camaraderie, not least of all because of the ease of passing around sweets during the long journeys.</div>
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So, today we set of in convoy heading south, to an interim fort site located between two of the stations on the Hijaz railway. This site had been briefly looked at in part a couple of years ago, and the intention is to complete more and thorough excavation work there to fill out the picture. We were greeted there by several Bedouin puppies, who can never have seen anything like this bunch of weird smelling people trampling all over their play area. They were very friendly, by and large keeping their distance, just observing. More about this site with images of the work on tomorrow's blog.</div>
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Meanwhile a small group headed of to try to find the actual location of a recently obtained photograph of some military vehicles from the time. After much wandering around, intense viewing of the position of landmarks and lines of sight, we think we have found it. More news on this later in the week when we go back there to try to collect diagnostic material from the site which supports our identification.</div>
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Some important news to report to friends and loved ones at home is that we are all here safe and sound, and that the places we are staying and working feel and are fine, with no hint of trouble. However we have decided to err on the side of caution and not refer to places we are working by name this season while we are here, which will explain some of the generalisations in this year's blog.<br />
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Yesterday half a dozen of us wandered the three miles uphill from the hotel to the site of the source of the name of this town - Wadi Musa, or Moses' Wadi, named after the place that he struck the rock to make a spring of water appear. The spring from this rock still flows, and the pool it feeds is now inside a small building. While we were there local children arrived to fill up water containers from this ancient spring.<br />
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On the walk back down we bought some fresh baklava in one of the local bakeries. All very calm and pleasant. </div>
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