Peter Leeming

University of Exeter, Theology and religion, Honorary Research Fellow

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Deep Time in a Tudor Palace? Fossils from the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich

Objects of the Past Investigating the significance of earlier artefacts in later contexts, 2019

This paper considers two fossil objects discovered during building works at Greenwich, in the rui... more

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2017 The Georgian Stone Age - A major new exhibition PAST THE NEWSLETTER OF THE PREHISTORIC SOCIETY 86: 15-16

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2015 “’Also found…(not illustrated)’ The curious case of the missing magical fossils” in Houlbrook, C. and Armitage, N. (eds.) The Materiality of Magic. An artefactual investigation into ritual practices and popular beliefs, 15-22 (Oxbow, Oxford).

Theoretical Archaeology Group conference paper from 2012. Initial findings of PhD research.

2012 "Recording the Boothstown Barges” in Nevell, M.D. and Wyke, T. (eds) Bridgewater 250: The Archaeology of the World’s First Industrial Canal. University of Salford Applied Archaeology Series 1: 27-46 (Centre for Applied Archaeology, University of Salford).

Publication, with Mark Fletcher and John Pitman, of the canal barges discovered during the draini... more

2011 “Orkney from the Air” in (eds) M. Lodewijckx and R. Pelegrin. A View from the Air. Aerial Archaeology and Remote Sensing Techniques. Results and opportunities. 2011: 127-142 (BAR International Series 2288).

(Publication of paper from Aerial Archaeology Research Group Conference in Leuven, September 2005).

Short notes by Peter Leeming

2011b Leeming, P. & Myers, A. “Carn Liath” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 11: 95

(Casual find of a knapped flint in rabbit damage on the site).

2010d “Noltland Castle, Westray, Orkney” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 10: 143.

(Cropmarks of maculae, probably quarry pits for construction of castle).

2010c “Ring of Brodgar, Stenness, Orkney” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 10: 141.

(Linear cropmark of field drain)

2010b “Horsick, St Andrews and Deerness, Orkney” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 10:139.

(cropmark of post mill)

2010a “Seatter, Kirkwall and St Ola, Orkney” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 10: 132.

(camouflaged pillbox and cropmarks of a stronghold)

2006c “Glen Lee, Lochlee, Angus” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 7: 26.

(Extensive area of rig and furrow)

2006b “Back Boath, Carmyllie, Angus” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 7: 24.

(Cropmark of possible chapel site)

2006a “Hairyholm, Marykirk, Angus” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 7: 20.

(Discovery of cropmark of ring ditch)

Reviews by Peter Leeming

2014b Kelly, B., Roycroft, N. and Stanley, M. (eds.) Futures and Pasts: archaeological science on Irish road schemes: Proceedings of a public seminar on archaeological discoveries on national road schemes, August 2012. Published by the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists

2014a Review of Bermingham, N., Coyne, F., Hull, G., Reilly, F. and Taylor, K. River Road. The archaeology of the Limerick Southern Ring Road. (NRA Scheme Monographs 14).

2013b Review of Hildred, A. (ed.) Weapons of Warre: the Ordnance of the ‘Mary Rose’: the Armaments of the Mary Rose and Klingelhofer, E. (ed.) First Forts: Essays on the Archaeology of Proto-colonial Fortifications in Post-Medieval Archaeology 47(2): 469-470.

2013a Review of Cowley, D.C., Standring, R.A. and Abicht, M.J. (eds.) Landscapes through the Lens: Aerial Photographs and Historic Environment in Post-Medieval Archaeology 47(2): 465-466.

2003a Review of M. Nevell & J. Walker Denton and Dukinfield Halls and the archaeology of the Gentry and Yeoman House in North West England 1500 to 1700. in The Dentonian (Newsletter of the Denton Local History Society) No 44 Spring 2003.

Conference Papers by Peter Leeming

“’Also found…(not illustrated).’ The curious case of the missing magical fossils.”

(Paper read at Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Liverpool, December 2012).

“Orkney from the Air”

(Paper read at Aerial Archaeology Research Group Conference in Leuven, September 2005).

Deep Time in a Tudor Palace? Fossils from the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich

Objects of the Past Investigating the significance of earlier artefacts in later contexts, 2019

This paper considers two fossil objects discovered during building works at Greenwich, in the rui... more

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2017 The Georgian Stone Age - A major new exhibition PAST THE NEWSLETTER OF THE PREHISTORIC SOCIETY 86: 15-16

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Theoretical Archaeology Group conference paper from 2012. Initial findings of PhD research.

Publication, with Mark Fletcher and John Pitman, of the canal barges discovered during the draini... more

(Publication of paper from Aerial Archaeology Research Group Conference in Leuven, September 2005).

2011b Leeming, P. & Myers, A. “Carn Liath” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 11: 95

(Casual find of a knapped flint in rabbit damage on the site).

2010d “Noltland Castle, Westray, Orkney” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 10: 143.

(Cropmarks of maculae, probably quarry pits for construction of castle).

2010c “Ring of Brodgar, Stenness, Orkney” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 10: 141.

(Linear cropmark of field drain)

2010b “Horsick, St Andrews and Deerness, Orkney” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 10:139.

(cropmark of post mill)

2010a “Seatter, Kirkwall and St Ola, Orkney” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 10: 132.

(camouflaged pillbox and cropmarks of a stronghold)

2006c “Glen Lee, Lochlee, Angus” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 7: 26.

(Extensive area of rig and furrow)

2006b “Back Boath, Carmyllie, Angus” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 7: 24.

(Cropmark of possible chapel site)

2006a “Hairyholm, Marykirk, Angus” in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland ns 7: 20.

(Discovery of cropmark of ring ditch)

2014a Review of Bermingham, N., Coyne, F., Hull, G., Reilly, F. and Taylor, K. River Road. The archaeology of the Limerick Southern Ring Road. (NRA Scheme Monographs 14).

2013a Review of Cowley, D.C., Standring, R.A. and Abicht, M.J. (eds.) Landscapes through the Lens: Aerial Photographs and Historic Environment in Post-Medieval Archaeology 47(2): 465-466.

“’Also found…(not illustrated).’ The curious case of the missing magical fossils.”

(Paper read at Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Liverpool, December 2012).

“Orkney from the Air”

(Paper read at Aerial Archaeology Research Group Conference in Leuven, September 2005).

‘“What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Potential interaction between Archaeology and Divinity.’

(Paper read at Graduate Archaeology in Oxford Conference on 25th June 2005).

2010c Daniel Well Excavations 1997

(unpublished report for Tameside Archaeological Society Ltd).

2010b Land at 27 Buxton Road, Hazel Grove. Recording of World War II Anti-invasion Defences

(unpublished report for Tameside Archaeological Society Ltd)

2010a Brown Road Farm, Broadbottom, Tameside. Level 2 Building Survey of a Variant Bank Barn

(unpublished report for Tameside Archaeological Society Ltd).

2004 The Buildings of the Christian Israelites in Ashton-under-Lyne

Unpublished study for A2 Archaeology

Georgia from 10,000 BC to c.400 AD (English version without illustrations)

by Emma Loosley Leeming and Peter Leeming

This is the English original text for the Georgian language teaching document uploaded to this site.

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The Stone Age Gallery, National Museum of Georgia

A guide to the gallery designed to help teachers and docents.

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The Egyptian Collection (English text without illustrations)

by Emma Loosley Leeming and Peter Leeming

This is the original English text that was translated into Georgian for the teaching document of ... more

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The Egyptian Collection

by Emma Loosley Leeming and Peter Leeming

This is a basic handbook (in Georgian) with dates and interesting facts that Georgian schoolteach... more

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Georgia from 10,000BC until 400AD

by Emma Loosley Leeming and Peter Leeming

This is a handbook for Georgian schoolteachers (in Georgian) to use in introducing their pupils t... more

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Review of "Princess Hedvig Sofia’ and the Great Northern War." Edited by Ralf Bleile and Joachim Krüger, and Large Cargo Ships in Danish Waters 1000-1250. Edited by Anton Englert. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 51(3), pp. 524–525

Princess Hedvig Sofia’ and the Great Northern War

Post-Medieval Archaeology, 2017

These two handsome volumes have, on first glance, very different approaches to their subject matt... more These two handsome volumes have, on first glance, very different approaches to their subject matter. Englert’s study of ships excavated in and around Denmark — the Eltang ship, excavated in 1947; the Lynaes I and II ships, excavated in 1975; the Haderslev ship, excavated in 1954, and, in German waters, the Karschau ship, excavated in 2001 — is a more conventional archaeological report on the discovery and excavation of unknown and unnamed wrecks. The Roskilde Viking Ship Museum’s volume is the seventh in that museum’s series ‘Ships and Boats of the North’, bringing some of the back catalogue of the museum’s excavations into print. Bleile and Kruger’s work, in contrast, is a collection of essays accompanying the exhibition ‘Of Swords, Sails and Cannon — The Sinking of the Princess Hedvig Sofia’, at the Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmussen in Gottorf Castle, held 28 May–4 October 2015. It is one of two volumes produced for the exhibition, the companion volume being a catalogu...

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Isotopic evidence for the use of Caucasian antimony in Late Bronze Age glass making

Journal of Archaeological Science, 2020

Antimony (Sb) is considered a rare material in the archaeological record, found only in unusual c... more Antimony (Sb) is considered a rare material in the archaeological record, found only in unusual circumstances. Nevertheless, antimony minerals were an important resource for several millennia, used in metallurgy and to opacify or decolour glass and glazes. In this way, Sb spread throughout the known world from the Chalcolithic onward. In glassmaking, stibnite was the only available resource that could provide in any measure the very pure Sb evident from trace element analyses of the earliest glass. Sb isotopic analysis has allowed Late Bronze Age Egyptian and Mesopotamian glass vessels and Caucasian Sb metallic beads to be compared to the possible ancient ore sources. The only known matches for the isotopic composition of the glass are stibnite ores from the Racha-Lechkumi district in the Caucasus (present-day Georgia), near the Zopkhito Au-Sb deposits, mined from the 17 th century BCE. Conversely, the Sb metal beads represent several isotopic and trace element compositional groups, only one of which matches the Racha-Lechkumi stibnite. Sb extraction for glassmaking was likely unrelated to copper metallurgy, and may have been associated with the mining of precious metals.

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Antimony as a raw material in ancient metal and glass making: provenancing Georgian LBA metallic Sb by isotope analysis

STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research, 2019

Sb was frequently used as a raw material, both in ancient glass-making (as an opacifier and decol... more Sb was frequently used as a raw material, both in ancient glass-making (as an opacifier and decolouriser) and metallurgy (either as an alloying element or as a pure metal). Despite this ubiquity, antimony production has only occasionally been studied and questions concerning its provenance are still not satisfactorily answered. This study evaluates the suitability of Sb isotope analysis for provenance determination purposes, as experiments under lab conditions have revealed fractionation occurring during redox processes in oxidising stibnites and in making opacified glasses. The results of this paper help to evaluate the possible influence of the pyrotechnological processes on the antimony isotope composition of glass artefacts. This paper focuses on the Caucasus as case study by applying mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic analysis to Georgian ores (mainly from the Racha-Lechkumi district) and Late Bronze Age (LBA; 15th-10th century BCE) metallic Sb objects found at the sites of Brili and Chalpiragorebi.

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