30 April, 2009

When on Google Earth 30

It is with a thinly disguised air of triumph that I welcome you to When on Google Earth 30 at Theoretical Structural Archaeology for the second time this week.

Having wrested the converted prise from Billy at the Moore Group, after David Powell had picked a site in Billy's garden, (it’s a small world – Lindsay Allen’s WoGE 19 was the building I used to work in), I give you WoGE 30, good luck all -
The Rules of When on Google Earth are as follows:
Q: What is When on Google Earth?
A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing to have a go!
Q: How do you play it?
A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the picture.
Q: Who wins?
A: The first person to correctly identify the site, including its major period of occupation, wins the game.
Q: What does the winner get?
A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog!

Previous winners:

#
Host:
Victor:
Site:
Period:
1
Chuck Jones
Takht-i Jamshid / Persepolis terrace, Iran
Achaemenid period
2
PDD
Church of Saint Simeon at Qalat Siman, Syria
5th-6th c. CE
2.1
Paul Zimmerman
Qal’at al-Bahrain
16th c. CE
3
Heather Baker
Baraqish (Yathill), Yemen
Minaean
4
Jason Ur
Mohenjo Daro,
ca. 2600-1900 BCE
5
Dan Diffendale
Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico
1st-5th centuries CE
6
Claire of Geevor Mine
Segontium, Caernarfon, Wales
77ish to about 390 CE
7
Ivan Cangemi
Carn Euny
ca. 500 BCE-100 CE
8
Southie Sham
Monks Mound (Cahokia), IL, USA
fl. 1050-1200
9
Dan Diffendale
Gergovia
fl. 1st c. BCE
10
Dorothy King
Kastro Larissa/Argos, Greece
ca. 1100 CE
11
Daniel Pett
Utica, Tunisia
8th century BCE–until 2nd Century CE
12
Neil Silberman
Caesarea Maritima, Israel
1st century CE–Present
13
Chuck Jones
Graceland, Memphis, TN, United States
1939 CE–Present
14
Aphaia
Bam Citadel, Iran
pre-6th century BC–19th century CE
15
Daniel Pett
Myrina, Lemnos, Greece
Classical Greek–present
16
Paul Barford
Dambulla Cave Temple, Sri Lanka
1st century BCE
17
Scott McDonough
Rosetta (Rashid), Egypt
Ptolemaic, Mamluk
18
Lindsay Allen
Ani, Turkey
Medieval, 10th-14th centuries CE
19
Heather in Vienna
South Shields, England, UK
Roman Imperial
20
Scott McDonough
Suomenlinna/Sveaborg fortress, Helsinki, Finland
1748-present
21
Chuck Jones
Derbent, Republic of Dagestan

Sasanian-present
22
Paul Barford
Amphitheatre of Aquincum (Budapest), Hungary
Roman
23
Geoff Carter
The Cursus, (Stonehenge) Wiltshire
Neolithic
24
Ferhan Sakal
The Heuneburg, South Germany
Iron Age
25
Lindsay Allen
Sura, Syria
Roman
26
Andrea
Bannerman Castle, Hudson River
C20th
27
David Powell
Taposiris Magna, Alexandria, Egypt
C1st bce
28
Billy
Ross Abbey, Galway, Ireland
Medieval
29
Geoff Carter
Great Zimbabwe, Africa
C11th - 14th ce
30
Geoff Carter
Heather
Elsdon Castle, Northum., England
C11th - 12th ce

6 comments:

Geoff Carter said...

If WoGE 30 remains unsolved by 6.00pm local Northumbrian time, a clue will be given . . . .

Anonymous said...

It's a tough one, Geoff!

Anonymous said...

Unless you live next door to it ....

Heather said...

At last! It's the motte and bailey castle at Elsdon, Northumberland, built not long after the Norman conquest.

I could see it was a motte and bailey, but there are zillions of these things and today (a public holiday here, luckily) I have looked at most of them!

Geoff Carter said...

Well done Heather, it is Eldon Castle, Northumberland, a remarkably preserved Norman Motte and Bailey Castle C11 – 12th ce.

So it’s over to you . . .
(15 mins short of my clue; - This place was said to be the abode of a giant, 7 leagues from Hogwarts)

Heather said...

And here is the link for WOGE 31:
http://woge20.blogspot.com/2009/05/when-on-google-earth-31.html