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New online tours of Portus launched

We are pleased to launch a series of online tours produced by Peter Wheeler. Peter, with input from the rest of the Portus Project team, has created tours for the Claudian, Trajanic, and Severan periods, and for the Fifth to Seventh Centuries. There is also a tour providing a virtual visit to the archaeological site as it is today. Finally there is an interactive timeline for the site. The tours are intended only as a first step and we have many additions and modifications planned. Continue reading →

Ultraviolet RTI

A painted and incised ceramic vessel was used as case study in an attempt to evaluate the efficiency of Reflected UV (UVR) RTI and UV induced visible fluorescence (UVF) RTI. Further details on ACRG blog. Continue reading →

FutureLearn social network: Portus in the UoS MOOCosphere

Author network – all UoS FutureLearn courses I have been looking at the comments from across all University of Southampton FutureLearn courses in an attempt to understand the place that the Archaeology of Portus learners fit within the wider community of learners on other University of Southampton FutureLearn courses. Continue reading →

Week Five – Your Questions Answered

Santa Sabina (Flickr) Video addressing questions relating to Week five. Continue reading →

Week Four – Your Questions Answered

Render of interior of Terraza di Traiano (Grant Cox, ArtasMedia and Portus Project) Here is the video addressing some of the questions from Week Four. Continue reading →

Week Three – Your Questions Answered

Plaster cast of the Torlonia Relief (Flickr) We have now uploaded the video addressing some of the questions raised about Week Three. As ever, we will continue to answer questions raised on the platform. Continue reading →

Week Two – Your Questions Answered

Trajan Forum Rome (Flickr) Here is the video addressing some of the questions you have raised about Week Two. Continue reading →

Week One – Your Questions Answered

Fossa Traiana (on Flickr) As part of Week Six we are today concentrating on answering questions raised on Week One. As a starting point Simon and I have created a video. We have also added a video by Katherine where she introduces her research at Ostia and how it relates to Portus. We have also added some additional cross-references to Hadrian’s Wall course both on the platform and on the blog for those of you who are registered on both. Continue reading →

Hadrian’s Wall Cross References

Hadrian’s Wall: Life on the Roman Frontier On the last run of the course we cross-referenced it to the Archaeology’s Dirty Little Secrets course and also to the Roman Architecture course. This time we have provided some suggested links between the Portus and Hadrian’s Wall courses. We will update this page as we create additional cross-references. Continue reading →

Sensing Portus

Inside the Castellum Aquae – a dark, damp, musty, resonant and chilly place I have become fascinated with the ways in which we all imagine the site of Portus today and as it was in the past. Continue reading →

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Graeme Earl

I am interested in all aspects of interdisciplinary research practice, with a particular emphasis on interactions between cultural heritage and computation. I co-direct the Portus Project.

Graeme Earl