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  1. Mystery of Moenjodaro, The (2005)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 42 minutes), £26.00

    Film produced for UNESCO made when Mohenjo-daro became a World Heritage site. Footage of the city; artefacts found there, the Indus River nearby, and the surrounding countryside, it includes aerial film of...

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  2. Dead Men Talk (1991 Video)

    Director
    David Hart
    Producer
    David Hart
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

    Looks at new scientific techniques in dating fossils. These have recently shown some fossil remains to be tens of thousands of years older than had previously been supposed. The controversial conclusions...

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  3. Fleet Valley Project, The (1989 Video)

    Director
    Tony Graco
    Producer
    Liam Paterson
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 11 min.

    Excavations in the Fleet Valley by the Museum of London’s Department of Urban Archaeology are throwing new light on the earliest periods of London’s occupation and helping to rediscover the history of...

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  4. Runneymede: Excavating the Bronze Age (1988 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

    Covers the 1986 season of the British Museum Excavation project at the 3000-year-old Bronze Age settlement of Runnymede Bridge and the subsequent laboratory work on the finds.

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  5. Down to Earth (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1993 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p) each; 2 programmes on 1 cassette - £30.00 (+VAT +p&p); the whole set - £100 (+VAT +p&p)

    The eight-part CUTTING EDGE series, filmed at Oxford University, examines the skills, methods and attitudes necessary to be a top scientist. Each programme looks at the ‘cutting edge’ of scientific...

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  6. Treasures from the Past (1987 Video)

    Director
    Joe Seamans
    Subject
    Archaeology; Crafts
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

    Shows artists and crafts specialists preserving and restoring a Russian palace, a Dusenberg automobile, and turn-of-the-century carousel, the square-rigged ship Elissa, and a World War I Curtiss ‘Jenny’...

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  7. Your Church: A Threshold to History (1987 Video)

    Director
    John Murray
    Subject
    Archaeology; Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min.

    Four specialists look at parish churches and talk about recording tombstones, modern scientific techniques, tracing the history of the buildings through archaeological evidence and how churhes form part of a...

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  8. Wreck and Raising of the ‘Mary Rose’, The. Part 4 (1984 Video)

    Producer
    John Selwyn Gilbert
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 47 min.

    Continues the story of the ‘Mary Rose’ since her raising on 11 October 1982. Now in dry dock at Portsmouth, the hull is constantly sprayed with water to prevent the timbers drying out. Margaret Rule,...

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  9. Woolwich: The Missing Link (1977 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Excavations in Woolwich, under the direction of Alice Pandrich, have revealed two 17th-century pottery kilns, part of a local industry whose existence was previously unknown. The first kiln to be discovered...

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  10. Archaeological Dating: Retracing Time (1976 Film)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Discusses two approaches to determining the age of an archaeological site, relating to other sites. Introduces methods of dating artifacts absolutely, including tree-ring dating (dendrochronology),...

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