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The skeleton of a child buried at site 170.1. |
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The Meroe plain from the summit of Jebel Ardeb. Sites 102.2-4 are visible in the foreground. |
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On the jebel close to Wadi Dein were carvings of feet, some with a thong pattern from the sandals, and others with details of hob nails. |
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Team members: Joyce Filer, Fathi Khider, Selima Ikram, Charles Le Quesne, John MacGinnis, Michael Mallinson (co-director), Stephen Quirke, Peter Sheehan, Laurence Smith (co-director), Francis Thornton. |
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Sites located within 50 metres of the road were marked by an Antiquities sign in an attempt to avoid their accidental destruction during the road building. |
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The new road cutting through the escarpment a little to the north of Begrawiya. |
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The SARS survey along the new road from close to the pyramids at Meroe up to Atbara, a distance of 90 kilometres, was undertaken in early 1993 and was followed by a second season of limited excavation at several sites among them, the cemetery at Gabati. |
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Fieldwork |
