10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EARTHFAST»
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earthfast in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial ...
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Erected between 1860 and 1870 of earthfast posts, the Billingsley Barn reveals
how hole-set construction was perpetuated well into the late nineteenth century.
The barn featured an exterior sheathed with decorative board-and-batten siding ...
Kenneth A. Breisch, Alison K. Hoagland, 2005
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The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
there is no reason to assume that this was the only or even chief activity which
took place inside them, nor that weaving was not also carried out in earthfast
timber buildings (see Hamerow 2002: 33 for continental examples of ground-
level ...
Helena Hamerow, David A. Hinton, Sally Crawford, 2011
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Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British ...
The seventeenth-century earthfast “Virginia house,” as it has become known, is
characterized by the use of hole-set timber posts, with the timber superstructure
covered either in wattle and daub or riven wooden clapboards, and chimneys, ...
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Between Dirt and Discussion: Methods, Methodology and ...
Each of the buildings was built in an earthfast tradition, a method of construction
common in the colonial Chesapeake that left only “the faintest of traces for the
archaeologist to ponder” (Deetz, 1993:15). Also known as hole-set, post-in-
ground ...
Steven Archer, Kevin Bartoy, 2007
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Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, ...
And so it goes, in subregion after subregion; although the date of changing from
earthfast building to more substantial construction varies from place to place, it
coincides every time with the change from one kind of agricultural production to ...
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Art as Metaphor: The Prehistoric Rock-art of Britain
Here the bedrock is sandstone, which, as elsewhere on the North York Moors,
outcrops and weathers to form rounded surfaces with little lamination. The
earthfast decorated boulders or rocks show no evidence for the removal of any
decorated ...
Aron D. Mazel, George Nash, Clive Waddington, 2007
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Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe: Perception and ...
In southwest Wales,the form and setting ofthe later 'earthfast' Neolithic
monuments are rather different from theearlier sites andseem to suggest that
peoplehad begun to engage more directly with natural places. Again,however,
this need not ...
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Daily Life in the Colonial South
Reuben Daniel's 250-acre plantation in Orange County included a 20 by 28-foot
frame dwelling house with a brick chimney, kitchen, barn (24 feet square), and
tobacco houses (20 by 32 feet). James Madison, Sr., replaced his father's
earthfast ...
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Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia [4 volumes]: An ...
Earthfast foundation. Earthfast (also known as “post-in-the-ground”) architecture
was the most prevalent building tradition of 17th-century Virginia and Maryland.
At its core, the typical “Virginia House” (as dwellings of this type were sometimes
...
Linda S. Cordell, Kent Lightfoot, Francis McManamon, 2008
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EARTHFAST»
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earthfast is used in the context of the following news items.
Taylor-Bray dig rewriting local history
Long known to be an example of post-in-ground, or earthfast, building, the original Taylor home now appears to have been constructed with a ... «Wicked Local Yarmouth, Nov 14»
PASTIMES: Town's history pre-dates Pilgrims
During that same excavation, the archeologists also discovered a complete 17th century "earthfast" house site. According to the artifacts and ... «Wicked Local Marshfield, Sep 14»
How the original settlers lived
This reconstruction of an early Colonial earthfast dwelling at Historic London Town in Edgewater represents a typical home built by the first ... «The Star Democrat, Feb 14»
Talk to reveal stone age secrets of airport site
... drawing together diverse evidence including Earthfast Jar practices, the construction of burial monuments and the settlement evidence from ... «Isle of Man Today, Feb 14»
Day Trip: Historic Huguenot Street
“They initially had pithouses and then earthfast houses built with crudely cut timber. All along, we believe the settlers were gathering stones to ... «Philipstown.info, Jun 13»
DIGGING INTO THE PAST: SUNY New Paltz Archaeological Field …
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Joseph Diamond, who runs the field school, said he and the students have found two earthfast houses that ... «Kingston Daily Freeman, Jul 12»
Christ Church
... vaulted ceilings, and large compass-headed windows, Christ Church cut an imposing figure in a Virginia landscape dotted by small, frame, earthfast buildings. «Northern Neck News, Jan 12»
1000 years on, and still going strong
Part of the late 12th century phase survives, and we think the posts from that era are earthfast, which could make it a unique survivor. Later ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 07»
Author jailed over sex assaults
Mayne wrote more than 100 books, including a trilogy of novels about the legend of King Arthur entitled Candlefast, Cradlefast and Earthfast. «BBC News, May 04»
