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SUMMARY:Found architecture: places becoming monuments in northern Britain
 ‘  (jointly with the Prehistoric Society) - Professor Richard Bradley\, 
 University of Reading
DTSTART:20260511T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Twentieth century fieldwork in Britain had many emphases but o
 ne of the most influential was the identification and classification of di
 fferent types of prehistoric monuments. It was not always easy to distingu
 ish between ruined structures left by ancient people and geological format
 ions that often resembled them. The problem was most severe in highland re
 gions. This distinction was based on the contrast in Western thought betwe
 en nature and culture.\n\nNew work in Scotland and Northern England has we
 akened this contrast. Bona fide monuments could develop from topographical
  features that gained a special significance in peoples’ lives\, and gla
 cial mounds and rock outcrops might have been mistaken for the remains of 
 older structures – sometimes those connections were celebrated in archit
 ectural form. There was ‘found architecture’ in the past just as moder
 n artists have used ‘found objects’.\n\nThe lecture will illustrate th
 ese points drawing on a series of recent excavations.
LOCATION:Law Faculty\, 10 West Road\, Cambridge CB3 9DZ
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