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Drawing, Fencing, Cycling, Spaceships and Knitting. And Venice.
Location of London Stone Roman Cannon Street - Roman Level [can’t find the sodding reference at the moment…]
1998-2000 Late Byzantine and Early Islamic pottery from Field C Tall Madaba Archaeological Project, Jordan University of Toronto http://www.utoronto.ca/tmap/prelim_1998-2000.html
1998-2000 Plan of the Late Hellenistic (FPs 5 and 4) architecture in Field B Tall Madaba Archaeological Project, Jordan University of Toronto http://www.utoronto.ca/tmap/prelim_1998-2000.html
thesherd: Ancient certification? The red layer of paint present on the surfaces of some blocks linked to Roman architecture may represent approval of the painted surface by architects or contractors.  (via Red-Painted Stones in Roman Architecture | American Journal of Archaeology)
1979 The compilation of a stratigraphic sequence. In (A) all the superpositional relationships are shown in the section and in the Harris Matrix form. (B) A matrix rendition of a section, which is clarified into a stratigraphic sequence in (C), according to the Law of Stratigraphical Succession. Principles of archaeological stratigraphy, 1979, Harris E
Le antichità Romane, t. 4, tav. LIV. Sezione del serraglio delle fiere fabbricato da Domiziano. speakingruins: G.B PIRANESI, Architecture excavated from the ground 
c. 1950s Sketchbook drawing for the raising of a large sarsen megalith Pen and ink on paper, 25 x 40.5 cm The family of the late Alan Sorrell Making history: antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007, McCarthy, S. Nurse, B. 2007
1936 Jean-Philippe Lauer (May 7, 1902 – May 15, 2001), was a French architect and Egyptologist. He was born in Paris, France and originally studied architecture, but in 1926 he went to Egypt. Here he met and married (on October 1, 1929) Marguerite Jouguet. He worked for Firth and Quibell on Djoser’s Step Pyramid. He devoted the next 75 years to restoring and reconstructing the complex surrounding the pyramid. Fouilles a Saqqarah. La pyramide a degres. L’architecture. (La pyramide de a Legres complements.) Vol.3 pl.22, Lauer, J. P.
1934 Maiden Castle Dorset: Section and Plan of Cutting ‘A’ Across Original Western Defences, scale of I inch to 4 feet (2.5 cm to 1.2 m) Charles Drew and Mortimer Wheeler Pencil on graph paper, 57.2 x 97.5 cm Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society at the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, 1939·55·28.2.A2 Selected references: Wedlake 1934; Wheeler 1943; Wedlake 1975A; Wedlake 1975B The survey of Maiden Castle, undertaken by Huntly Gordon with his theodolite, was the first comprehensive survey of the large earthworks of the site… … The heroic figure with a spade captures the moment in one of the first section drawings of modern excavation practice. Making history: antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007, McCarthy, S. Nurse, B. 2007
1922 Drawing of a section through the filling of the strongroom (sacellum) beneath the headquarters building of Segontium Roman fort, Caernarvon, Wales. Because the phases of occupation of this military site were assumed to reflect the history of Roman Wales, particular emphasis was placed upon dating evidence in this drawing. Thus, for example, the layer of rubble cannot have fallen there before c. AD 290, for a coin hoard of that date was found in the soil (‘black mould’) beneath it. Archaeology: An Introduction, 2002, Greene K Image: Mortimer Wheeler Section through cellar at Segontium 1922, Segontium and the Roman Occupation of Wales, 1923 Wheeler M
oldbookillustrations: Monuments of Roman architecture. From Bilder-Atlas zum Conversations-Lexikon : Geschichte der Baukunst (plates to the history of architecture section of the Conversations-Lexikon, AKA Brockhaus Enzyklopädie), Published by Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1888. (Source: archive.org)
1900 A 23m section drawn in 1900 reveals careful observation not just of brick structures hut also variations in the texture and consistency of tell material. Recording and publication of drawings of this standard did not become firmly established until well into the twentieth century. Archaeology: An Introduction, 2002, Greene K Image: Das wieder erstehende Babylon, 1913, Koldewey
1897 … a representative of a common type, and was as found at Santon Downham, between Brandon and Thetford, on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk, where, also, implements belonging to the Paleolithic Period have been discovered.  The sides were originally sharp, but have been slightly rounded by grinding.  The faces still show, in many places, the surface originally produced by chipping, but all projections have been ground away. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain, 1897, Evans, J
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