Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (607 page)

 
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Stone or ceramic tile used along the ridgeline of a roof, usually shaped to sit over the ridge itself to provide a water-tight seal with the roof sections on either side.

 
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An ancient and traditional pathway and communications route running along the top of a prominent ridge. The paths were not constructed as such and usually exploited a wide corridor. Some were later used as Roman roads and medieval droveways. In Britain the best-known ridgeways are: the Berkshire Ridgeway running eastwards from Avebury, the Icknield Way in the Chilterns, and the Pilgrim's Way on the North Downs of Kent.

 
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Ridley , Cressida
(1917–98)
[Bi].

British archaeologist specializing in Greek prehistory. The granddaughter of British Liberal prime minister H. H. Asquith, Ridley (née Bonham-Carter ) took up archaeology late in life, influenced by childhood experiences in and around her home at Stockton in Wiltshire. In 1961 she started as a student in the Institute of Archaeology in London, graduating two years later top of her class with a postgraduate diploma. She had a scholarship at the British School in Athens before working at a number of sites in Greece, starting work in the Haliakmon Valley in northern Greece in 1971. Her most famous excavations were at Servia, a Neolithic settlement threatened with destruction by the building of a hydroelectric scheme.
[Obit.:
The Times
, 8 June 1998]

 
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German term for a type of ceramic brick commonly used in late
URUK
-period structures in Mesopotamia. Such bricks are long and thin with a square cross-section.

 
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A kind of
RIDGE AND FURROW
cultivation found in upland areas where spades appear to have been used rather than ploughs. See also
CORD RIG
and
RUN RIG
.

 
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