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  2. Glossary of archaeology - Wikipedia

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    Cut feature that once held an upright timber or stone structural member, which can be recognised even after the (wooden) post has decayed because its fill differs from the sediment around it. [31] postpipe Remains of an upright timber placed in a posthole. [citation needed] potassium–argon dating See K–Ar dating. potsherd A fragment of ...

  3. Timber circle - Wikipedia

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    Modern pillars marking the post-holes of Woodhenge, facing northwards. Timber circles in the British Isles date to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.The posts themselves have long since disappeared and the sites are identified from the rings of postholes that they stood in. Aerial photography and geophysical survey have led to the discovery of increasing numbers of the features.

  4. Paleoradiology - Wikipedia

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    The hole in the head had been created in order to continue the embalming process of mummification. [10] This CT investigation was also able to confirm Tutankhamun's age of death as nineteen and disprove the idea that the young pharaoh had suffered from scoliosis; rather the bend in his spine was from additional post-mortem damage to the body. [10]

  5. Old New-Gate Prison - Wikipedia

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    State records indicate that copper was discovered on the west side of Talcott Mountain, then part of Simsbury, in 1705.The construction of a mine began in 1707. The mine was created by digging a vertical shaft and tunneling horizontally, with additional vertical shafts dug for ventilation.

  6. Woodhenge - Wikipedia

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    Most of the 168 post holes held wooden posts, although Cunnington found evidence that a pair of standing stones may have been placed between the second and third post hole rings. Excavations in 2006 indicated that there were at least five standing stones on the site, [6] arranged in a "cove". The deepest post holes measured up to 2 metres (6.6 ...

  7. Post church - Wikipedia

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    Post church (Norwegian: stolpekirke) is a term for a church building which predates the stave churches and differ in that the corner posts do not reside on a sill but instead have posts dug into the earth. Posts are the vertical, roof-bearing timbers that were placed in the excavated post holes.

  8. Little Woodbury - Wikipedia

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    During his identification of timber post remains, Bersu was able to assemble a ground-plan of the main roundhouse. It was composed of four elements: two outer rings of post-holes (with a max diameter of 15 m), another concentric ring of post-holes (1.5-2 m further in), a group of posts in a square formation (4 m from the inner ring), and a gap ...

  9. Star Carr - Wikipedia

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    This is known from excavated post holes, a sunken area and concentrations of flints, burning and other artefacts. The posts were almost certainly made of wood and roughly 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in diameter. There may have been as many as 18 of them and the holes indicated that several may have been replaced over the course of the structure's use.