Sentence examples for medieval sites from inspiring English sources

In his time as an inspector, hundreds of medieval sites - villages, moated manors, castles, monasteries, parts of towns - were under threat from modern housing developments or road schemes.

Sloane, who was previously a field archaeologist with the Museum of London, working on many medieval sites, is now attached to English Heritage.

In this pilot-study, which was designed to assess the range of isotopic variation in English medieval populations, we present the results of stable isotope analysis of carbon and nitrogen of human and animal bone collagen from three later medieval sites in Northern England.

Ground-penetrating lasers scanning more than 735 square miles of the Angkor region returned high-definition images of long-lost medieval sites.

This view has mostly been discarded, primarily due to a period of archaeological discontinuity, during which settlements were absent or rare, and because of cultural incompatibility of the late ancient and early medieval sites.

Although set in the 12th and 13th centuries, Penman sets the characters and narrative in her novels in medieval sites that still exist and can be visited, including castles, churches and archeological areas.

The children were even more taken by another medieval site, the enormous stone Turku Castle, a museum with cavernous rooms, labyrinthine corridors and spooky charm.

The town was confined to its medieval site until the late 18th century, when rapid expansion generated development to the north and west and, more recently, to the east.

Other cases of coffin birth at archaeological sites have been described, such as in 1978 at a Neolithic site in Germany, at a medieval site in Denmark in 1982, and in 2009 at an Early Christian period site at Fingal, Ireland.

The British Mandate Antiquities Authority noted in a January 1947 report that Deir Ghassaneh was "built on a medieval site," and on a hill 500 m west of the village was a two-domed shrine dedicated to a Sheikh Khawas.

Early post-war efforts towards the conservation of post-medieval sites and buried remains, and towards the consolidation of the academic study of modern archaeological remains, are sketched.