Inspector Of Monuments Research Articles

Status procesowy wojewódzkiego konserwatora zabytków w postępowaniu cywilnym na tle zmian legislacyjnych

The article presents considerations on the procedural status of the provincial inspector of monuments in civil proceedings against the background of the recent legislative changes. The procedural rights of the monuments protection authority in civil proceedings are set out in art. 95 of the act on the protection and care of monuments. As a result of the newly introduced act on the restitution of the national cultural property into the Polish legal system, this provision has been modified by removing the provincial inspector of monuments from the catalogue of monuments protection authorities authorised to use the procedural means of monuments protection in civil proceedings. Despite the understandable need to fill in the legal gap enabling the return of seized cultural goods, the recent amendment still provides a platform for academic polemics.

Museologia e patrimônio: encontros e desencontros

Ao direcionarmos o olhar para as décadas de 1920 e 1930, podemos verificar os diferentes projetos, apresentados por parte da intelectualidade brasileira, para a área do patrimônio e dos museus. Esta assertiva poder ser confirmada por meio da análise dos diversos projetos e anteprojetos que buscavam normalizá-la. Nesse período, é posta em curso a ideia da construção de um Estado onde as elites têm papel de destaque no encaminhamento da questão política e cultural. Assim, são criados importantes instituições e órgãos, tais como o Museu Histórico Nacional (1922), o Curso de Museus (1932) e a Inspetoria de Monumentos Nacionais (1934). Tanto o Curso de Museus como a Inspetoria de Monumentos Nacionais são considerados marcos. O primeiro na institucionalização da Museologia e dos estudos de museus no Brasil. O segundo foi um dos principais antecedentes do Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (SPHAN), atual Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN), criado em 1937. O presente artigo pretende lançar luzes nessa discussão ao analisar e problematizar o papel desempenhado por diferentes atores no processo de formação e configuração das áreas da Museologia e do Patrimônio, enfatizando as convergências e divergências existentes em suas trajetórias.

A Neolithic ring-mound at Midtown of Pitglassie, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire

In Autumn 1978, excavation took place on a small round mound at Midtown of Pitglassie where digging in the 1950s had produced Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery and lithics. The excavation was organized by the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate of the Department of the Environment, now Historic Scotland, with whose assistance this report is published. The excavation revealed an original annular mound, composed of circular banks of stone, earth and turf. The central area was filled with stone rubble, mostly disturbed and redeposited in the 1950s, but with one remnant of a possible central cairn. Pre-mound activity included turf-stripping and cremation, followed by the formal deposition in a number of pits of cremated bone (from, probably, one
 individual), accompanied by pottery and lithics, including a Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead. In addition to these specific deposits, pottery of Grimston Lyles Hill tradition, numerous quartz and further flint pieces were found within the mound and fragments of Beaker were recovered from the disturbed central area. Remnants of a possible circle of stone settings were found around the perimeter of the monument. Radiocarbon dates for charcoal from a cremation pit and the pre-mound surface provided dates of between 3964 and 3342 cal BC.

A ‘Head and Hooves’ Burial beneath a Round Barrow, with other Neolithic and Bronze Age Sites, on Hemp Knoll, near Avebury, Wiltshire

This barrow was excavated by the author for the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate of the then Ministry of Public Buildings and Works (now the Department of the Environment) in August and September 1965. The barrow was scheduled under the Ancient Monuments Acts by the Department of the Environment as Wiltshire 563, and all finds were accordingly thus marked at the time of excavation. In 1958 the barrow was observed by the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate as being 4½ ft high and the mound was spread by agricultural activity to a diameter of 75 ft. In 1965 this bowl barrow stood barely 18 in. high, having suffered much from the effects of ploughing. The barrow had been disturbed mainly in the centre of the mound by early, possibly nineteenth century, excavations. At least one slit trench had been dug into the side of the mound during the 1939–45 war and much other disturbance had been caused by rabbits.Residual finds from this site caused a particular problem. Where they seem to be dateable they have been inserted in their appropriate section, otherwise where there is a possible alternative date they have been cross referenced. All ranging rods and scales shown in the photographs of the site are marked in feet and inches, except where otherwise obvious.

The Defences of the Iron Age Hill-Fort at Winklebury, Basingstoke, Hampshire

This report should be read in conjunction with the report on the excavations in the interior of the fort (previous paper in these Proceedings).The site of the hill-fort lies on the north side of the North Downs Trackway (National Grid Reference SU/614528). It is also on the southern edge of the Lower Thames valley. In this area there is a gap through the Hampshire Downs which connects the Thames valley with that of the River Test.The derivation of the place name Winklebury is not entirely clear. Medieval spellings, e.g. Wiltenischebury, c. 1290; Wyltenysshbury, 1407; Wynnyshbery and Wynlysbery, 1443, suggest that the name may be of Anglo-Saxon derivation and mean the ‘fort or stronghold of the people of Wilton’, i.e. the fort owned, occupied or built by the Wiltshiremen. However, Wiltonish occurs as a surname in Romsey in the 1289 Assize Rolls, in Walter le Wyltenysshe, and thus the site name may have evolved in the 13th century through associations with this family.Building development threatened the north side of the hill-fort in 1959. Excavations were accordingly carried out by the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate of the then Ministry of Works (now the Department of the Environment), under the direction of the writer in July and August of that year.

An Investigation of Manekweni, Mozambique

Summary This article gives an account of the first British Institute project in Mozambique, carried out under the auspices of Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. The site concerned is of particular interest, being among the earliest of the stone structures of the type known as mazimbabwe, and far distant from those previously recorded. It is not far from the coast, and its construction in limestone, as opposed to the usual granite, is also remarkable. Mr. Garlake, who directed the excavation, brings to the project knowledge of the Great Zimbabwe culture acquired when he was Senior Inspector of Monuments in Rhodesia. He is now a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University College, London. The first season of excavations at Manekweni, a stone-built ruin in the coastal lowlands of southern Mozambique, is described. Architecture, building techniques, pottery and other artefacts demonstrate Manekweni's close connections with the Great Zimbabwe culture, of which the present nearest known sites are a...

Soldiers' Burials at Camelon, Stirlingshire, 1922 and 1975

On 11 January 1975 a stone cist containing two inhumation burials and a series of iron objects was found in gravel-working at the Cairnmuirs Gravel Pit, west of the Roman fort at Camelon, Stirlingshire, now in the Falkirk district of the Central Region of Scotland (NS 860810). The two boys who made the initial discovery, David Vause and Wallace Wright, took a collection of bones and ironwork home, and their parents informed Camelon constabulary. The police took the matter up with Mr. J. M. Sanderson of Falkirk Museum and he asked the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland and the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate of the Department of the Environment for assistance in excavating the grave. Because of the risk of sandfalls, the excavation of what turned out to be the burial of two soldiers accompanied by their weapons was undertaken the following day by Dr. J. Close-Brooks, National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Dr. D. J. Breeze, Department of the Environment, and Dr. J. N. G. Ritchie, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Under Scottish law, objects of archaeological importance (not necessarily of precious metal) may be claimed as Treasure Trove, and the finders appropriately rewarded; accordingly the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer claimed the weapons for the Crown and Mr. Vause and Mr. Wright have been rewarded for their prompt reporting of the cist. A second sword found by a bulldozer driver in the gravelworkings at a rather earlier date was handed over at the same time, and also claimed by the Crown. Two other deposits, one of them in a cist, were found at Camelon in 1922 on the south-east side of the site, and the opportunity has been taken here to publish new illustrations of these finds. This report comprises a discussion of the known history of the fort, a description of the excavation of the most recent cist and of the deposits found in 1922, a discussion of the mode of burial, the status of the soldiers and of the weapons, and finally a detailed description of the individual objects.

IV.—The Palace of Westminster Sword

The sword was found in September 1948 in the course of deep excavations for the foundations of a new underground boiler-house for the Houses of Parliament, in Victoria Tower Gardens on the south side of the House of Lords. As the site lies within the precincts of the medieval Palace of Westminster, the sword has been given this title to distinguish it from other ancient swords found in the region. The sword is Crown property, and after cleaning and preservative treatment in the laboratory of the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate, it has been placed on exhibition in the Jewel Tower at Westminster by kind permission of the Lord Great Chamberlain.

Inyanga: a preliminary report

Inyanga is a district in Southern Rhodesia whose monuments were brought to the notice of readers of ANTIQUITY a short while ago. A Fund raised by private subscription mainly from Rhodesian sources has recently sponsored excavations in this district and at the conclusion of the second season's work it seems desirable to make a preliminary report. The excavations were directed by the writer who was fortunate in having the very skilful assistance of the Colony's Inspector of Monuments, Mr K. R. Robinson. Unfortunately no amateurs were able to assist us.

Quernhow: a Food-Vessel Barrow in Yorkshire

The excavation described in this paper was occasioned by the impending destruction of the Quernhow barrow in the course of construction of a new carriage-way on the Great North Road. Proposals for the preservation of the monument had been advanced prior to the last war, but these proving inexpedient, the complete investigation of the structure was requested by the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate of the Ministry of Works, at the instance of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, and the writer invited to supervise the excavation. A generous grant towards the cost of labour having been made by the Ministry and the Society undertaking to meet all other expenses involved, work commenced on 2nd May 1949, and continued for six weeks, four men being employed throughout this period. At no time was the weather ideal, alternating between an exceptionally long dry spell, which made the study of the barrow structure an extremely difficult task, and a period of continuous rain which unfortunately coincided with the investigation of the primary burial complex.