ABSTRACT

Turf was widely used as a building material in the Roman period, especially in military architecture. Despite this, few studies have investigated properties of turf in construction, and fewer still have applied micromorphology to ancient turf walls. This study details the methods and results from a combined macro- and micro-scale analysis, using samples from the well-preserved ramparts at Vindolanda, a fort associated with Hadrian’s Wall. Our work not only proposes a refined methodology for the wider geoarchaeological study of turf walls, but also provides new, deeper insight into the properties of turf as a building material.

中文翻译：

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在 Roman Vindolanda 用草皮建造：土质材料、建造技术和景观环境的多标量分析

摘要

草皮在罗马时期被广泛用作建筑材料，特别是在军事建筑中。尽管如此，很少有研究调查草皮在建筑中的特性，很少有研究将微形态学应用于古老的草皮墙。本研究详细介绍了综合宏观和微观分析的方法和结果，使用的是来自与哈德良长城相关的堡垒 Vindolanda 保存完好的城墙的样本。我们的工作不仅为更广泛的草皮墙地质考古研究提出了一种完善的方法，而且还为草皮作为建筑材料的特性提供了新的、更深入的见解。