Mola senior building material specialist Han Li laying out Roman plaster fragments An excavation in London has revealed one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster to be ...

Archaeological ‘jigsaw’ reveals 2,000-year-old Roman wall paintings It is believed the frescoes once decorated at least 20 internal walls of a high-status Roman building between AD 40 and 150.

In the study, Professor Shelach-Lavi and co-authors were able to uncover new evidence about the wall’s construction and purpose. They found that the wall and its garrison complexes were primarily ...

I’ve written about the history of stone walls and how to interpret them in the field, and developed the Stone Wall Initiative to draw public attention to their importance in New England.

For example, we commonly find well-built double walls near cellar holes, with simpler single walls at further distance and waste piles beyond those. Such patterns provide an independent source of ...