Field guide to the Quaternary glacial, periglacial and colluvial features of the East Cape Drakensberg
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1994
- Language: English
- Type: Book
- Identifier: vital:6704 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006740 , ISBN 0-86810-271-7
- Description: Most of the sites described in this publication are located on privately-owned farmland. Permission to visit sites should be obtained from the relevant landowner. This Field Guide was produced for a Field Meeting of the Southern African Society for Quaternary Research, held in May 1994 and based at Rhodes, led by Colin A, Lewis, (Rhodes University), Evan S,J, Dollar (University of Transkei), Trevor Hill (Rhodes University). It was published on behalf of the Southern African Society for Quaternary Research by the Dept. of Geography, Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1994
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1994
- Language: English
- Type: Book
- Identifier: vital:6704 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006740 , ISBN 0-86810-271-7
- Description: Most of the sites described in this publication are located on privately-owned farmland. Permission to visit sites should be obtained from the relevant landowner. This Field Guide was produced for a Field Meeting of the Southern African Society for Quaternary Research, held in May 1994 and based at Rhodes, led by Colin A, Lewis, (Rhodes University), Evan S,J, Dollar (University of Transkei), Trevor Hill (Rhodes University). It was published on behalf of the Southern African Society for Quaternary Research by the Dept. of Geography, Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1994
Fluvial conditions during the Holocene as evidenced by alluvial sediments from above Howison's Poort, near Grahamstown, South Africa
- Lewis, Colin A, Illgner, Peter M
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A , Illgner, Peter M
- Date: 1998
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6697 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006733
- Description: Mapping and analyses of alluvial sediments in the Berg River valley, near Grahamstown, has resulted in the identification of over 5 000 years of environmental stability in the early Holocene, in which flood plain sediments accumulated. Subsequent to 4390±90 BP environmental instability, probably due to climatic fluctuations, resulted in the formation of river terraces. Further research is needed to establish the area! limits of this sequence of Holocene climatic and environmental events.
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- Date Issued: 1998
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A , Illgner, Peter M
- Date: 1998
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6697 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006733
- Description: Mapping and analyses of alluvial sediments in the Berg River valley, near Grahamstown, has resulted in the identification of over 5 000 years of environmental stability in the early Holocene, in which flood plain sediments accumulated. Subsequent to 4390±90 BP environmental instability, probably due to climatic fluctuations, resulted in the formation of river terraces. Further research is needed to establish the area! limits of this sequence of Holocene climatic and environmental events.
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- Date Issued: 1998
Glasbury man made Clyro bells
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6182 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012377
- Description: [From Introduction] There must have been great excitement in Clyro in 1708. The existing four bells in St Michael's Church were recast by Henry Williams, the bell founder from Glasbury, into a ring of five bells. The work was apparently paid for by the owners of two of the great houses in the parish: Cabalva and Lloyney. Little is known of the four bells that existed in Clyro before Williams began his work, although they appear to have been larger than the five bells cast from their metal. The four bells swung side by side in a wooden frame in the tower of the church. This frame was altered in 1708 to accommodate bells of smaller dimensions and a fifth bell pit was added at right angles to the others. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2003
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6182 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012377
- Description: [From Introduction] There must have been great excitement in Clyro in 1708. The existing four bells in St Michael's Church were recast by Henry Williams, the bell founder from Glasbury, into a ring of five bells. The work was apparently paid for by the owners of two of the great houses in the parish: Cabalva and Lloyney. Little is known of the four bells that existed in Clyro before Williams began his work, although they appear to have been larger than the five bells cast from their metal. The four bells swung side by side in a wooden frame in the tower of the church. This frame was altered in 1708 to accommodate bells of smaller dimensions and a fifth bell pit was added at right angles to the others. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2003
Glasbury muscle men
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2005
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6175 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012368
- Description: Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2005
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2005
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6175 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012368
- Description: Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2005
Glasnost and glaciers, yurts and yaks : a scientist in Soviet Central Asia
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1991
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6707 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006744
- Description: Why are glaciers retreating, and are all glaciers retreating? There is much evidence to suggest that, globally, mean annual air temperatures are rising. Yet not all areas of the world have experienced temperature increases. In 1989 a Joint UNESCO/IGCP research project, Project 297, was initiated in order to identify and correlate geocryological features in mountain areas. A visit to the Alpine Geocryology station of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR to study rock glaciers afforded the author a glimpse of Soviet Asian evidence of climatic change and caused him to revise his interpretation of rock glacier and other geocryological remains in the eastern Cape Drakensberg.
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- Date Issued: 1991
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1991
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6707 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006744
- Description: Why are glaciers retreating, and are all glaciers retreating? There is much evidence to suggest that, globally, mean annual air temperatures are rising. Yet not all areas of the world have experienced temperature increases. In 1989 a Joint UNESCO/IGCP research project, Project 297, was initiated in order to identify and correlate geocryological features in mountain areas. A visit to the Alpine Geocryology station of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR to study rock glaciers afforded the author a glimpse of Soviet Asian evidence of climatic change and caused him to revise his interpretation of rock glacier and other geocryological remains in the eastern Cape Drakensberg.
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- Date Issued: 1991
Henry Williams : The Glasbury Bellfounder, and the production and tuning of bells
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: Book chapter
- Identifier: vital:6159 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004779 , Full text available to the end of Chapter 2
- Description: The production and tuning of church bells is described before attention is paid to Henry Williams, the Glasbury bellfounder who died in 1722, and his bells. The bells of TP, his apparent successor are also described. Henry Williams was probably a member of the Williams family of Gwernyfed and was born c 1635. His presumed family connections are described. Bells known to have been cast by Henry Williams between 1677 and 1719 are listed; their distribution depicted; and their qualities assessed. The inventory of Williams' possessions at the time of his death is presented and discussed. Bells cast by TP during a brief foray into bell founding, apparently 1738-40, are described and their qualities assessed. TP was probably Benjamin Tanner (T), the industrialist specialising in iron production who succeeded Williams at the Pipton forge (P) in Aberllynfi parish near Glasbury, or Tanner (T) and Samuel Prichard (P). Prichard was the grandson of Henry Williams and his sole executor. , A complete copy of this book is available at The Whiting Society of Ringers at: http://www.whitingsociety.org.uk
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- Date Issued: 2012
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: Book chapter
- Identifier: vital:6159 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004779 , Full text available to the end of Chapter 2
- Description: The production and tuning of church bells is described before attention is paid to Henry Williams, the Glasbury bellfounder who died in 1722, and his bells. The bells of TP, his apparent successor are also described. Henry Williams was probably a member of the Williams family of Gwernyfed and was born c 1635. His presumed family connections are described. Bells known to have been cast by Henry Williams between 1677 and 1719 are listed; their distribution depicted; and their qualities assessed. The inventory of Williams' possessions at the time of his death is presented and discussed. Bells cast by TP during a brief foray into bell founding, apparently 1738-40, are described and their qualities assessed. TP was probably Benjamin Tanner (T), the industrialist specialising in iron production who succeeded Williams at the Pipton forge (P) in Aberllynfi parish near Glasbury, or Tanner (T) and Samuel Prichard (P). Prichard was the grandson of Henry Williams and his sole executor. , A complete copy of this book is available at The Whiting Society of Ringers at: http://www.whitingsociety.org.uk
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- Date Issued: 2012
Jimmy Riadore: organ-builder, bell-ringer and hanger of the bells at St George's Cathedral, Cape Town
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6190 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012396
- Description: Born in Lewes, Sussex, Jimmy Riadore came to South Africa in 1958. Organs, bells and clocks have been the focus of his life, and he has tuned, built, repaired and restored them all over southern Africa. Recently he has extended his careful ministrations to St Helena. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6190 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012396
- Description: Born in Lewes, Sussex, Jimmy Riadore came to South Africa in 1958. Organs, bells and clocks have been the focus of his life, and he has tuned, built, repaired and restored them all over southern Africa. Recently he has extended his careful ministrations to St Helena. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2009
John Jolly : the Grahamstown bell founder
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2002
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6173 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012364 , http://www.ringingworld.co.uk
- Description: Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2002
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2002
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6173 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012364 , http://www.ringingworld.co.uk
- Description: Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2002
John Michael Berning (14.12.1941- 17.12.2006) : obituary
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6184 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012381
- Description: [From Introduction] Mike Berning was born in 1941. He attended the King Edward VII School in Johannesburg before going up to Rhodes University in 1960, where he read Honours in History, graduating in 1963. Having decided on a career in librarianship, Mike proceeded from Rhodes to the University of Cape Town in 1964, initially to read for a Certificate in that subject. In 1968 he was awarded his Diploma in Librarianship from UCT. In the first part of 1965 Mike was employed in the South African Library in Cape Town, but in September of that year he was appointed Librarian of the Cory Library at Rhodes University. From 1978 until 1986 he acted as Deputy to the University Librarian until, in 1988, the post of Deputy University Librarian was created, to which he was appointed. Mike retired in 1999. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6184 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012381
- Description: [From Introduction] Mike Berning was born in 1941. He attended the King Edward VII School in Johannesburg before going up to Rhodes University in 1960, where he read Honours in History, graduating in 1963. Having decided on a career in librarianship, Mike proceeded from Rhodes to the University of Cape Town in 1964, initially to read for a Certificate in that subject. In 1968 he was awarded his Diploma in Librarianship from UCT. In the first part of 1965 Mike was employed in the South African Library in Cape Town, but in September of that year he was appointed Librarian of the Cory Library at Rhodes University. From 1978 until 1986 he acted as Deputy to the University Librarian until, in 1988, the post of Deputy University Librarian was created, to which he was appointed. Mike retired in 1999. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Late glacial and holocene palaeoclimatology of the Drakensberg of the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2005
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6692 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006727
- Description: Eight climatic events during the Holocene are evidenced in the East Cape Drakensberg by fluvial, archaeological and palynological deposits. Flood plain deposition under relatively moist conditions occurred in the Early Holocene, before ca. 7000 BP. Semi-arid conditions with limited fluvial activity dominated the Mid Holocene until ca. 3200 BP. Alternating flood plain erosion and deposition occurred in the Late Holocene. Four climatic events, for which there is palynological and limited archaeological evidence, have been identified in the Late Glacial.
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- Date Issued: 2005
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2005
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6692 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006727
- Description: Eight climatic events during the Holocene are evidenced in the East Cape Drakensberg by fluvial, archaeological and palynological deposits. Flood plain deposition under relatively moist conditions occurred in the Early Holocene, before ca. 7000 BP. Semi-arid conditions with limited fluvial activity dominated the Mid Holocene until ca. 3200 BP. Alternating flood plain erosion and deposition occurred in the Late Holocene. Four climatic events, for which there is palynological and limited archaeological evidence, have been identified in the Late Glacial.
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- Date Issued: 2005
Late Quaternary climatic changes, and associated human responses, during the last ~ 45 000 years in the Eastern and adjoining Western Cape, South Africa
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6700 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006736
- Description: Palaeoenvironmental evidence indicative of former climatic conditions in the Eastern and adjoining Western Cape during the last ~ 45 000 yr is presented and summarised. Interstadial conditions began before 43 000 BP but were succeeded by stadial conditions at ~ 24 000 BP. These climatic phases are designated the Birnam Interstadial and the Bottelnek Stadial after the type sites at which they were identified in the Eastern Cape. The Bottelnek Stadial apparently equates with the Last Glacial Maximum. Late Glacial warming was apparent by 18/17 000 BP. Sea level rose markedly by ~ 14 000 BP. Climatic oscillations marked the end of the Late Glacial. The Early Holocene was drier than the Late Holocene and, at least in the Drakensberg, there was marked aridity in the mid-Holocene. Human responses to these climatic events are briefly described.
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- Date Issued: 2008
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6700 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006736
- Description: Palaeoenvironmental evidence indicative of former climatic conditions in the Eastern and adjoining Western Cape during the last ~ 45 000 yr is presented and summarised. Interstadial conditions began before 43 000 BP but were succeeded by stadial conditions at ~ 24 000 BP. These climatic phases are designated the Birnam Interstadial and the Bottelnek Stadial after the type sites at which they were identified in the Eastern Cape. The Bottelnek Stadial apparently equates with the Last Glacial Maximum. Late Glacial warming was apparent by 18/17 000 BP. Sea level rose markedly by ~ 14 000 BP. Climatic oscillations marked the end of the Late Glacial. The Early Holocene was drier than the Late Holocene and, at least in the Drakensberg, there was marked aridity in the mid-Holocene. Human responses to these climatic events are briefly described.
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- Date Issued: 2008
Late Quaternary environmental phases in the Eastern Cape and adjacent Plettenberg Bay-Knysna region and Little Karoo, South Africa
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2011
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6712 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006749
- Description: Four major climato-environmental phases have been identified in the Eastern Cape, Plettenberg Bay-Knysna region and Little Karoo between somewhat before ~ 40 000 cal. a BP and the present: the Birnam Interstadial from before 40 000 cal. a BP until ~ 24 000 cal. a BP; the Bottelnek Stadial (apparently equating with the Last Glacial Maximum) from ~24 000 cal. a BP until before ~ 18 350 cal. a BP; the Aliwal North (apparently equating with the Late Glacial) from before ~ 18 350 cal. a BP until ~ 11 000 cal. a BP; the Dinorben (apparently equating with the Holocene) from ~ 11 000 cal. a BP until the present. The evidence for, and the characteristics of, these phases is briefly described.
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- Date Issued: 2011
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2011
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6712 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006749
- Description: Four major climato-environmental phases have been identified in the Eastern Cape, Plettenberg Bay-Knysna region and Little Karoo between somewhat before ~ 40 000 cal. a BP and the present: the Birnam Interstadial from before 40 000 cal. a BP until ~ 24 000 cal. a BP; the Bottelnek Stadial (apparently equating with the Last Glacial Maximum) from ~24 000 cal. a BP until before ~ 18 350 cal. a BP; the Aliwal North (apparently equating with the Late Glacial) from before ~ 18 350 cal. a BP until ~ 11 000 cal. a BP; the Dinorben (apparently equating with the Holocene) from ~ 11 000 cal. a BP until the present. The evidence for, and the characteristics of, these phases is briefly described.
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- Date Issued: 2011
Looking at landscapes
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1991
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:576 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006731
- Description: [From text] Landscape, for me, is Geography, for landscape is the focus of the four great traditions of my subject: spatial; area studies; man-land relationships; earth science (Pattison, 1964,1990). Hedd Wyn and Thomas Roberts, each in his own way, was a Geographer, for each was obviously a student of landscape. My own interest in Geography originated in the view from my bedroom window. I was lucky, Dad was a clergyman, and when he came bade from the army he accepted the parish of St. Peter's Glasbury, in the Wye valley of Wales. From my bedroom window I looked out across The Vicarage lawn, beyond the yew hedge and the orchard, to a series of mounds set in parkland. They were orderly, forming the outline of a rectangle, and when a group of archaeologists excavated the site they discovered that the mounds were the remains of the walls of an Iron Age fort (Savoury, 1955). Although I did not know it at the time, the landscape was already talking to me. , Inaugural Lecture delivered at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 17 April 1991
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- Date Issued: 1991
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1991
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:576 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006731
- Description: [From text] Landscape, for me, is Geography, for landscape is the focus of the four great traditions of my subject: spatial; area studies; man-land relationships; earth science (Pattison, 1964,1990). Hedd Wyn and Thomas Roberts, each in his own way, was a Geographer, for each was obviously a student of landscape. My own interest in Geography originated in the view from my bedroom window. I was lucky, Dad was a clergyman, and when he came bade from the army he accepted the parish of St. Peter's Glasbury, in the Wye valley of Wales. From my bedroom window I looked out across The Vicarage lawn, beyond the yew hedge and the orchard, to a series of mounds set in parkland. They were orderly, forming the outline of a rectangle, and when a group of archaeologists excavated the site they discovered that the mounds were the remains of the walls of an Iron Age fort (Savoury, 1955). Although I did not know it at the time, the landscape was already talking to me. , Inaugural Lecture delivered at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 17 April 1991
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- Date Issued: 1991
Marine reservoir corrections : St. Helena, South Atlantic Ocean
- Lewis, Colin A, Reimer, P J, Reimer, R W
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A , Reimer, P J , Reimer, R W
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6701 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006737
- Description: We present the first marine reservoir age and ∆R determination for the island of St. Helena using marine mollusk radiocarbon dates obtained from an historical context of known age. This represents the first marine reservoir age and ∆R determination in the southern Atlantic Ocean within thousands of kilometers of the island. The depletion of 14C in the shells indicates a rather larger reservoir age for that portion of the surface Atlantic than models indicate. The implication is that upwelling old water along the Namibian coast is transported for a considerable distance, although it is likely to be variable on a decadal timescale. An artilleryman’s button, together with other artifacts found in a midden, demonstrate association of the mollusk shells with a narrow historic period of AD 1815–1835.
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- Date Issued: 2008
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A , Reimer, P J , Reimer, R W
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6701 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006737
- Description: We present the first marine reservoir age and ∆R determination for the island of St. Helena using marine mollusk radiocarbon dates obtained from an historical context of known age. This represents the first marine reservoir age and ∆R determination in the southern Atlantic Ocean within thousands of kilometers of the island. The depletion of 14C in the shells indicates a rather larger reservoir age for that portion of the surface Atlantic than models indicate. The implication is that upwelling old water along the Namibian coast is transported for a considerable distance, although it is likely to be variable on a decadal timescale. An artilleryman’s button, together with other artifacts found in a midden, demonstrate association of the mollusk shells with a narrow historic period of AD 1815–1835.
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- Date Issued: 2008
Metaphor or reality? The man who went into the west: the life of R.S. Thomas / by Byron Rogers: book review
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6188 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012394
- Description: Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6188 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012394
- Description: Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2007
New bells, new founder - Hillandale, South Africa
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1999
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6163 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012350
- Description: On the afternoon of Sunday 2nd May 1999, the first ring of bells cast in Africa, the bells at Hillandale, were rung for the first time. This is the second ring of bells to be installed in an institution established by the Order of the Holy Cross, and the seventh ring in South Africa and the tenth ring in Africa. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 1999
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 1999
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6163 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012350
- Description: On the afternoon of Sunday 2nd May 1999, the first ring of bells cast in Africa, the bells at Hillandale, were rung for the first time. This is the second ring of bells to be installed in an institution established by the Order of the Holy Cross, and the seventh ring in South Africa and the tenth ring in Africa. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 1999
Obituary: John Mayne English 1922-2013
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: vital:6162 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004782
- Description: In 1962 John moved south to Johannesburg, but that bustling city held few attractions for him and he moved further south, to the cathedral city of Grahamstown. Grahamstown, with its nineteenth century Gothic cathedral, elegant Georgian buildings, and distinctive grandeur of Rhodes University, St Andrew's College and other buildings designed by Herbert Baker and his colleagues, suited John. He particularly enjoyed the academic, social, artistic and dramatic life of the community, where many older members of society were distinguished old-Africa hands. John thoroughly enjoyed Grahamstown where, in the partnership of Hoskins and English, he made his mark in the restoration and extension of many significant buildings. His addition to the Anglican chapel at Hog's Back is a masterpiece, as is his incorporation of the old fayade into the rebuilding and extension of the Magistrates' Court.
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- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: vital:6162 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004782
- Description: In 1962 John moved south to Johannesburg, but that bustling city held few attractions for him and he moved further south, to the cathedral city of Grahamstown. Grahamstown, with its nineteenth century Gothic cathedral, elegant Georgian buildings, and distinctive grandeur of Rhodes University, St Andrew's College and other buildings designed by Herbert Baker and his colleagues, suited John. He particularly enjoyed the academic, social, artistic and dramatic life of the community, where many older members of society were distinguished old-Africa hands. John thoroughly enjoyed Grahamstown where, in the partnership of Hoskins and English, he made his mark in the restoration and extension of many significant buildings. His addition to the Anglican chapel at Hog's Back is a masterpiece, as is his incorporation of the old fayade into the rebuilding and extension of the Magistrates' Court.
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- Date Issued: 2013
Oxbridge clerics and early ringing in South Africa
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6186 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012384
- Description: During the early Twentieth Century, many gifted British clergy came to South Africa. They must have felt optimistic that many rings of bells would soon be installed in their adopted country. South Africa had survived the Boer Wars, the economy was reasonably healthy, new churches were being built and many others were being planned. The Union of South Africa was only a few years old and the political stability of this great part of the British Empire seemed assured. Sadly, their optimism was misplaced and in 2008 only eight rings exist in South Africa. Had it not been for the efforts of the Oxbridge trio: J.R. Vincent, G.H. Ridout and C.E.E. Bulwer, and other British immigrants, however, these rings would not exist. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2008
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6186 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012384
- Description: During the early Twentieth Century, many gifted British clergy came to South Africa. They must have felt optimistic that many rings of bells would soon be installed in their adopted country. South Africa had survived the Boer Wars, the economy was reasonably healthy, new churches were being built and many others were being planned. The Union of South Africa was only a few years old and the political stability of this great part of the British Empire seemed assured. Sadly, their optimism was misplaced and in 2008 only eight rings exist in South Africa. Had it not been for the efforts of the Oxbridge trio: J.R. Vincent, G.H. Ridout and C.E.E. Bulwer, and other British immigrants, however, these rings would not exist. , Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2008
Palaeoclimatic and archaeological implications of organic-rich sediments at Tiffindell Ski Resort, near Rhodes, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
- Rosen, Deborah Z, Lewis, Colin A, Illgner, Peter M
- Authors: Rosen, Deborah Z , Lewis, Colin A , Illgner, Peter M
- Date: 1999
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6721 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006797
- Description: Analyses of organic-rich deposits from Tiffindell Ski Resort indicates that organic accumulation began somewhat before 4720 BP. This correlates well with the moister conditions known to have existed in the north eastern uplands of Eastern Cape Province (and in upland eastern Lesotho) in the later as compared with the earlier part of the Holocene. Palynological analyses of sediments dating from somewhat before 2790 BP to the present suggests that only limited environmental changes occurred in the pollen spectra. The wettest conditions apparently existed around 2700 BP, probably correlating with an increase in human occupation in the Eastern Cape (Southern) Drakensberg following the possible abandonment of that area during the dry phase(s) of preceding millennia.
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- Date Issued: 1999
- Authors: Rosen, Deborah Z , Lewis, Colin A , Illgner, Peter M
- Date: 1999
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6721 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006797
- Description: Analyses of organic-rich deposits from Tiffindell Ski Resort indicates that organic accumulation began somewhat before 4720 BP. This correlates well with the moister conditions known to have existed in the north eastern uplands of Eastern Cape Province (and in upland eastern Lesotho) in the later as compared with the earlier part of the Holocene. Palynological analyses of sediments dating from somewhat before 2790 BP to the present suggests that only limited environmental changes occurred in the pollen spectra. The wettest conditions apparently existed around 2700 BP, probably correlating with an increase in human occupation in the Eastern Cape (Southern) Drakensberg following the possible abandonment of that area during the dry phase(s) of preceding millennia.
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- Date Issued: 1999
Peals in Africa
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6166 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012354
- Description: Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2003
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6166 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012354
- Description: Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2003