Using the ARIADNE Portal
Searching the Catalogue
The search results page
The Map (Where)
Tools for use with the map
Representation of the resources
Time period (When)
The Timeline tool
Filter by year
Filter by time periods
Temporal region
Cultural periods
Other filters
There are a selection of filters in addition to the Map and Time period tools that can be used both on their own or in combination with the other filters and tools. These are located in the drop down menu below the Map and Timeline tools on the search results page.
Resource type
The Resource type is an ARIADNE concept designed to categorise the resources into general areas of interest to archaeologists and the names are mostly self-explanatory. Each resource record has a Resource type icon displayed to the left of the title.
Those Resource types that may need clarification are:
Fieldwork – normally a record relating to specific fieldwork e.g. evaluations, interventions, etc.
Fieldwork report – these always have a link (URL or DOI) to the actual document.
Fieldwork archive – the record refers to a collection of documents, images etc. relating to a site (accessible from the DOI supplied).
Dating – datasets using for dating materials e.g. radio carbon and dendrology.
More than one Resource type can be selected but as ‘AND’ is used with each term, this will only result in records where all the terms have been used. For example, all “Maritime” resources are also classified as Resource type “Site/monument” so combining both Resource types has the same result as selecting just ”Maritime” (this is logical as currently the maritime records relate to ship wrecks). Conversely, Resource type “Artefacts” and “Coins” have been applied separately and the only record that is returned matching both Resource types is the Collection record for the Portable Antiquities Scheme. In most cases, this filter is useful for excluding records that do not match the specified Resource type.