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University of Southampton

20th Anniversary discount on Humanities postgraduate taught courses for 2016/17

To celebrate 20 years of Humanities at Avenue Campus, the University of Southampton is offering a 20th Anniversary discount on all postgraduate taught courses for entry in 2016/17. A 10% discount (15% for alumni of the University) will be available to all students applying for entry to a postgraduate taught course in Humanities subjects in 2016/17. For further details on the discount and how to apply for it, visit the Humanities website. Continue reading →

Survey and Excavation at Cranborne Chase

After a few weeks of survey in the New Forest, teaching of practicals and writing up of some papers, it was good this week to get back out in the field with staff and students from the University of Southampton. This time we headed out to Dorset for excavation and survey at Down Farm on Cranborne Chase, with teams of students involved in excavation, finds processing and recording, together with some topographic survey and magnetometry. Continue reading →

RTI shedding new light on Iberian Late Bronze Age stelae

During the first two weeks of September David Wheatley and myself, jointly with Leonardo García Sanjuán (University of Seville), have conducted fieldwork in Lora del Río, Seville (Spain). This fieldwork has been aimed at providing enhanced contextual data and visual recording of a Late Bronze Age decorated stela. As part of this work we have applied Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and the results are really amazing. RTI allows us to examine the surface of the stela interactively. Continue reading →