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The first 8 items (photographs) were taken at the very beginning of the British team's excavation of Citadel house in 1954, when the initial discovery was believed to be a reservoir. Subsequently, this impression was revised and changed to the designation 'storeroom'. The Citadel House area, designated ‘Area Gamma (Γ)’, was a complex of buildings that was to be excavated fully under the direction of Lord William Taylour during the 1959-1969 seasons.

Scope and Contents These records provide a working summary and indexed overview of the pottery and small finds generated during the course of an excavation season. They do not exist for the 1920-1923 seasons and started with Helen Wace assuming administrative oversight and organisation of the excavated material unearthed: numbering, description, labeling and photography in 1939. Small Finds Indices compiled by Helen Wace in spiral-bound notebooks are proto-Control books, initially entitled 'Register...

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Site photographs comprise the excavated areas of Mycenae which were not principally associated by the archaeologists with funerary archaeology.

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Site photographs comprise the excavated areas of Mycenae which were not principally associated by the archaeologists with funerary archaeology.

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A varied file, consisting of photographs of the Palace of Nestor (Pylos) a small boy, schoolgirls doing exercises, dining outside a restaurant, and various photographs of Lord Taylour with friends and family, and giving a public lecture in Mycenae.

Scope and Contents 1952 Excavation Notebook compiled by Lord William Taylour, with a daily account of excavation in ink on r., and associated sketch plans and sections drawings in pencil on v., for Tsekoura, Prehistoric Cemetery Central, Prehistoric Cemetery South, Hellenistic Gymnasium. Text annotated with unit, small find and pot numbers. Papse notes ff. 80- 94. Index to sherds kept, stored in the Nauplion Museum at the time, on f. 56. At the back, with the notebook turned upside down, a 21 page summary of...

Scope and Contents 1954 and 1959 Site Notebook, predominantly for Citadel House area but also includes House of the Columns and has 1959 pot notes for Gamma 1 at the back. Compiled by Lord William Taylour (1954-59) and Ben Whitwell (1959). 1954 begins with a small finds index, followed by a daily account of excavation, sketch plans and section drawings. 1959 records begin f. 33 with full index to small finds, baskets, plans, sections, trenches, walls and further finds such as plaster and bone. Continues...

Scope and Contents Director's Daybook on the excavation of Citadel House, 1968, covering Gamma 21, Gamma 22, Gamma 23, Gamma 33, Gamma MB/E, Gamma MB/W. Compiled by William Taylour. Provides a daily summary of excavations around the site and general events. Notes only. Used to produce the 1968 site album. Text is largely written on recto to the end of the book and then is flipped, going backwards using the empty verso pages, 123 leaves in total. Also includes small softcover notebook (unknown author -...

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Director's Daybook on the excavation of Citadel House, 1969, covering Gamma 32 and Gamma MB/W. Compiled by William Taylour. Provides a daily summary of excavations around the site and general events. Notes only. Used to produce the 1969 site album. Text is largely written on the recto to the end of the book and then is flipped, going backwards using the empty verso pages, 139 leaves in total. Also includes a small notebook (unknown author) recording levels for Mycenae 1969.

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Site photographs comprise the excavated areas of Mycenae which were not principally associated by the archaeologists with funerary archaeology.

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In 1956 Lord Taylour visits several cities, towns and villages in Italy. These photographs encompass a broad range, including images of buildings (cathedrals and baptistries, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and houses); ancient Roman and Etruscan architectural and artistic remains, as well as dolmens, images of Lord Taylour and his crew, streets, landscapes, fountains, beaches and animals ('goats in play' and a 'sacred raven'). There are also photographs of the excavatory process in Avetrana.

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1967's trips see Lord Taylour travel through Italy and Greece, featuring a range of sites including Pompeii, Benevento, Metsovon, the Perama Caves, Meteora, Delphi and St Aubyn's, Ireland. This file comprises a range of ancient Greek and Roman monumental sites, as well as views of the Pindus range, local costume and village lads in Metsovon, picnic groups and a party of aristocrats at St Aubyn's, an image of Lord Taylour included.

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Prehistoric Cemetery East - south section IX - skeleton against wall, viewed from higher up. WDT wrote on v. in ink, 'Makarite agst[sic] wall (from higher up)'. 'Makarites' in modern Greek means 'the deceased'.

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A range of slides from St Aubyn's, Ireland, showing rooms in the house, construction works, memorial stones, views of the gardens, including an image of Lord Taylour sitting on the steps.

Scope and Contents The Papers of Lord William Desmond Taylour (1904 - 1989) hold a considerable amount of photographic material - predominantly positive 35mm colour transparencies (slides) - taken during his many travels home and abroad throughout his life. The images feature not just archaeological topics but also a sweeping range of themes and locations, often with a contemporary anthropological perspective. Administrative records date mainly to Taylour's tenure as Director of the British Mycenae...

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Photocopy of a 1953 Excavation Notebook for Perseia compiled by Lord William Taylour. Daily account of excavation with sketch plans. Papsing notes and an inventory of boxes sent to Nauplion Museum at the back.