Rome's Desert Frontier from the Air
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...Kennedy and Bewley, 1998), where cloud-free conditions pertain and where there are a higher percentage of stone built and still upstanding sites (Kennedy and Riley, 1990), the archaeological utility of this resource is potentially immense....
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...…surveys being undertaken in the Near East (e.g. Kennedy and Bewley, 1998), where cloud-free conditions pertain and where there are a higher percentage of stone built and still upstanding sites (Kennedy and Riley, 1990), the archaeological utility of this resource is potentially immense....
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...To the immediate north and east of the fort, the walls and buildings of the town that subsequently grew up around the fort (Kennedy and Riley 1990) can be discerned as changes in texture, with possible upstanding buildings visible as dark ‘dots’....
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...Whilst lacking the definition of conventional aerial photography (cf. Kennedy and Riley 1990), the ability to detect remains from Rome’s desert frontier on the KH-4B imagery from mission 1115–2 demonstrates the potential of declassified CORONA imagery to support archaeological prospection in this…...
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...In the case of the eastern desert frontier, there are many fine remains to be found and aerial photography conducted in the first half of the twentieth century has contributed much to our understanding (Kennedy and Riley 1990)....
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...Measuring some 18 m622 m in plan view (Kennedy and Riley 1990), the tower is set inside an earlier, larger, enclosure covering some 60 m660 m. 3.4....
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