Visibility analysis of the Roman communication network in southern Scotland
Autor: | James Crow, Kathryn M. Murphy, Bruce Gittings |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
Archeology geography Summit geography.geographical_feature_category History 060102 archaeology viewshed Visibility (geometry) 06 humanities and the arts Signal station GIS 01 natural sciences Archaeology Rubers Law visibility analysis Viewshed analysis Infrastructure network 0601 history and archaeology signalling Tower Scottish archaeology Roman Britain 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
Zdroj: | Murphy, K, Gittings, B & Crow, J 2018, ' Visibility analysis of the Roman communication network in southern Scotland ', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 17, pp. 111-124 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.10.047 |
ISSN: | 2352-409X |
Popis: | This paper uses GIS and visibility analysis to examine if Rubers Law fits into the known Roman communication and infrastructure network of towers, forts, camps and roadways in southern Scotland. Rubers Law is a prominent hill in the Scottish Borders with an extensive archaeological history, and the discovery of approximately 30 Roman building stones on the summit in the early 20th century led to the conclusion that it had been the site of a Roman signal station, despite a lack of concrete evidence for a Roman occupation. Visibility and intervisibility from the Roman towers was analysed using four types of viewshed analysis: regular, cumulative, fuzzy, and probable. The results were analysed to determine what would be visible from Rubers Law from a tower between 7 m and 10 m high. The various viewshed methods were also compared; it was determined that regular and cumulative viewsheds over predict visibility, while fuzzy and probable methods are more robust. Based on this analysis, a tower on Rubers Law could have been a major relay station, passing messages from Brownhart Law and Craik Cross Hill to Eildon Hill North and Newstead Roman Fort. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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