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| Project start date: 2006-09 | Project end date: 2009-08 |
To establish the date and detail of the Gorgan wall in Iran
| Methods used | Category |
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| Geophysical survey | Data capture |
Bartington Grad 601/2 magnetometer and TR Systems earth resistance meter. Downloaded and procesed using ArcheoSurveyor.
Held by by the Archaeology Data Service, York with copies held by Dr Eberhard sauer of Edinburgh University.
Geophysical data, mainly magnetometery but with some earth resistance, of approx 1 million data points in archeosurveyor grid(asg) format and XYZ comma sv files.
These are principally of the interiors of forts on the Gorgan wall and of brick kilns along its route.
Various pictires of the results in png format.
production of png pictures from processed data.
Publications on the project with generous support by the AHRC (from 2006) including some on the pilot study in 2005
1. Nokandeh, J., Sauer, E., Omrani Rekavandi, H., Wilkinson, T., Abbasi, G.A., Schwenninger, J.-L., Mahmoudi, M., Parker, D., Fattahi, M., Usher-Wilson, L.S., Ershadi, M., Ratcliffe, J. and Gale, R., 2006 ‘Linear Barriers of Northern Iran: The Great Wall of Gorgan and the Wall of Tammishe.’ Iran 44: 121-73.
2. Omrani Rekavandi, H., Sauer, E., Wilkinson, T. and Safari Tamak, E., 2006 ‘Linear Barriers of Northern Iran: The Great Wall of Gorgan.’ The British Institute of Persian Studies Newsletter 29 (November 2006): 4.
3. Omrani Rekavandi, H., Sauer, E., Nokandeh, J. and Nazifi, A., with Ershadi, M. (design), 2007 ‘A Linear Barrier of Northern Iran: The Great Wall of Gorgan.’ [English version]/ ‘????? ???? ????? :????? ???? ??? ????’ [Persian version], Gorgan, pp. 2 [an illustrated brochure].
4. Omrani Rekavandi, H., Sauer, E., Wilkinson, T., Safari Tamak, E., Ainslie, R., Mahmoudi, M., Griffiths, S., Ershadi, M., Jansen Van Rensburg, J., Fattahi, M., Ratcliffe, J., Nokandeh, J., Nazifi, A., Thomas, R., Gale, R. and Hoffmann, B., 2007 ‘An Imperial Frontier of the Sasanian Empire: further fieldwork at the Great Wall of Gorgan.’ Iran 45: 95-136.
5. Omrani Rekavandi, H., Sauer, E., Wilkinson, T. and Nokandeh, J., 2008 ‘The enigma of the ‘Red Snake’: Revealing one of the World’s Greatest Frontier Walls.’ Current World Archaeology 27: 12-22 & cover page, cf. 5 (see http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic/esauer/pubs/iranian_...).
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| Author(s) of record | Roger Ainslie / Eberhard Sauer |
| Title | An Imperial Frontier and its Landscape: the Gorgan and Tammisha Walls in North-East Iran |
| Record created | 2008-03-16 |
| Record updated | 2010-02-01 10:52 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2275 |
| Citation of record | Roger Ainslie / Eberhard Sauer: An Imperial Frontier and its Landscape: the Gorgan and Tammisha Walls in North-East Iran. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2275> created: 2008-03-16, last updated 2010-02-01 10:52 |
