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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Bryn Mawr college, 1937. / Dissertation originally had title: John Bale: controversialist, antiquarian, dramatist. Bibliography: p. 129-138.

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 25, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Devoney Looser. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis explores the richness of Devon’s antiquarians’ records covering the period from the 15th century through to the early 20th century, and reveals the wealth of information that these archives contain about archaeological sites and medieval buildings that have since been lost. The lives of the Devon antiquarians themselves, how the carried out their research, and the unpublished and published material they have left us, are all reviewed. Of particular importance are unpublished questionnaires, journals, diaries, notebooks and commonplace books which together provide an untapped resource of information on lost and damaged archaeological sites. When assessing the antiquarians’ pictorial evidence it was important to undertake field visits in order to ascertain their accuracy and the amount of damage sites have incurred since. The earliest antiquarians were those who visited Devon during the 16th century in order to collect material for the histories of England they were writing. These were followed by Devonian antiquarians, who from the 16th century onwards wrote histories of Devon, and a later group who visited, and in some cases excavated, archaeological sites. Antiquarians are discussed in depth where they have left us documentary evidence, and in some cases illustrations, from their research. The thesis explores six areas of research pursued by these antiquarians: barrows, hillforts, Roman sites, castles, religious houses and churches. Within the discussion of these types of sites, particular case studies are used to show the progression of archaeological techniques within antiquarian research, it was found that the majority of the sites described by antiquarians have not undergone any further archaeological investigation.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Art History, December 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University, Dept. of English, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on March 31, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-216). Also issued in print.

Yes / Recent radiocarbon dating of a skeleton from Balevullin, Tiree, excavated in the early twentieth century, demonstrates that it dates to the Neolithic period, rather than the Iron Age as originally expected. Osteological examination suggests that the individual was a young adult woman, exhibiting osteological deformities consistent with vitamin D deficiency, most likely deriving from childhood rickets; an exceptionally early identification of the disease in the UK with potentially significant social implications. Isotopic analysis supports the osteological evidence for physiological stress in childhood and further suggests that the woman was most probably local to the islands. Analysis of the surviving written archive reveals that the surviving skeleton was one of several originally recovered from the site, making Balevullin an exceptionally rare example of a British Neolithic inhumation cemetery.

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