{"title":"Isurium Brigantum: An Archaeological Survey of Roman Aldborough","authors":"D. Mason","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2021.1924980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2021.1924980","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"93 1","pages":"186 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2021.1924980","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41981770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landscape and Settlement in the Vale of York: Archaeological Excavations at Heslington East, York, 2003–13","authors":"B. Vyner","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2021.1917911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2021.1917911","url":null,"abstract":"presentation is framed along the lines of a rather traditional historical narrative – essentially fitting the archaeological evidence into a framework created by the limited Classical sources. Such an approach is perfectly defensible, but it does miss the opportunities provided by contemporary archaeological thinking. To take one example, much of the interpretation is defined by the categories of Native versus Roman, with the latter represented by the military or officials. Interestingly agency in explaining past decisions is essentially seen to pass from the one to the other. As we have seen in previous section, the post AD 70/71 settlement is represented as an externally imposed foundation. For me much of the interest in a site like this lies in much more complex explanations as the processes of cultural change were not simply about imposition (a point well understood in the context of the Iron Age phases here). In seeking to understand what was to become a failed Roman settlement within about 50 years, we might want to start by thinking about who came to live there at this period, what they were doing and why. Certainly there would have been soldiers, at least passing-by if not always resident, but who else? The category of ‘native’ is insufficient as the population presumably included people from this region, from other parts of Britain and also perhaps those from Gaul and Germany who were taking advantage of the opportunities of conquest. How does the evidence for things found on the site like millstones, pottery, glass and trinkets map on to this, and what can they tell us about the nature of these communities and their various relationships with the imperial power? The opportunity for using this excellent material to address such questions should not now be lost. We should be writing stories that move far beyond the shackles of the Classical texts which seem to have constrained the project as presented here just a little.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"93 1","pages":"183 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2021.1917911","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44026304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vernacular Buildings: a Source for Historical Study","authors":"C. Giles","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2021.1916255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2021.1916255","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The historic county of Yorkshire has a wealth of vernacular buildings, studied for over a century. The focus of study and the means by which it has been carried out have changed over this period and the opportunity exists to review this history and indicate how the subject might develop in the next years, particularly in relation to the fuller exploitation of existing records and the way in which future research might be structured. The use of architectural evidence for the examination of changing types of house is well established, but less well recognised is its potential to not only illustrate wider historical trends but also to modify, refine or counter conclusions drawn from other sources.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"93 1","pages":"101 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2021.1916255","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46236530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roman Coins from York","authors":"R. Brickstock","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2021.1924489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2021.1924489","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper presents an analysis and overview of some three thousand Roman coins recovered through scientific modern excavation, undertaken over more than half a century by the York Archaeological Trust and others, at a total of more than 90 locations within York and its near vicinity. It represents an important element of an on-going programme of publication and re-assessment by the author of coinage from major sites along the line of Dere Street, including Aldborough (published in volume 91 of this journal), Catterick, Piercebridge, Binchester and Corbridge.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"93 1","pages":"63 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2021.1924489","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46851722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hunslet Foundry and the Making of Industrial Leeds","authors":"G. Cookson","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2021.1934245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2021.1934245","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Hunslet Foundry was a pioneering venture just as Leeds began its transition into a centre of engineering and textile manufacture. The foundry was built at Hunslet Carr in 1770 to serve the Middleton colliery and railway, and other south Leeds collieries. The story of its early progress reflects more than innovation in iron-making, also illuminating the growing human connections between south Yorkshire’s metalworking districts and new industrial ventures emerging in Leeds.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"93 1","pages":"149 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2021.1934245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43182683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bronze Age and Later Vegetation History on the Limestone Tabular Hills of North-East Yorkshire, UK: Pollen Diagrams from Dalby Forest","authors":"I. Simmons, J. Innes, Anne Appleyard, P. Ryan","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2021.1917895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2021.1917895","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper presents the results of palynological investigations on the limestone Tabular Hills of the North York Moors in north-east England. These limestone areas have the highest concentration of post-Mesolithic archaeological sites in this upland region, but because of the geology and paucity of suitable organic deposits they have had almost no palynological research with which to assess the land-use history of these cultures, nor their impacts on the vegetation. This lack of palaeoecological information from the Tabular Hills has been addressed, so that the area’s environmental history can be added to that of the rest of the North York Moors, which is relatively well known. Three pollen profiles have been examined, Yondhead Rigg providing an early Bronze Age to post-Medieval record, Seavy Slack providing a late Iron Age to post-Medieval record, and Dargate Dykes providing a late Medieval to modern record. The combined vegetation history from the three sites indicates a similar story to that from elsewhere on the Moors, with substantial forest disturbance in Bronze Age and Iron Age times, with significant woodland regeneration after each, but with the first main forest clearance phase for agriculture occurring during the Romano-British period, followed by early Medieval woodland regeneration, then extensive clearance in the later Medieval period for some arable cultivation and extensive animal husbandry on the rich calcareous grassland. In each agricultural phase the scale and intensity of disturbance seems to have been greater in these fertile limestone areas than in the rest of the Moors, with their poorer, more acidic soils, but still with an emphasis on stock-rearing and less extensive cultivation. The results will allow a more comprehensive landscape history of the North York Moors to be understood for later prehistory and more recent times.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"93 1","pages":"34 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2021.1917895","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42153583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Grave-Marker at Kirby Hill, North Riding","authors":"Rita Wood","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2021.1917898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2021.1917898","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The grave-marker has recently been mounted with three other pre-Conquest stones in the tower-space at the church of All Saints, Kirby Hill. Only the best-preserved face of the stone can be seen, but this is of more than local interest, since its two motifs suggest some cultural connections across the apparent barrier of the Norman Conquest.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"93 1","pages":"170 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2021.1917898","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45908988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wakefield, its Woollen-Cloth Trade and Merchant Networks, 1558-1650","authors":"G. D. Newton","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2021.1916249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2021.1916249","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Towns cannot be fully understood without a knowledge of their interactions with each other. This was never more true than at a time when the textile industry was both ubiquitous and of national importance. The industry had an influence over the largest city and the smallest cottage. Trade was a way in which many people saw their own area as a part of the national picture. Here, using a wide range of primary sources including wills, leases, court cases, taxation records and government surveys, the cloth trade of early-modern Wakefield has been partially reconstructed. Particular attention is paid to the network of towns and regions Wakefield traded with, and the reciprocal nature of this trade. Case studies illustrate how and why trading developed.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"93 1","pages":"129 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2021.1916249","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49629339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power in the Land, the Ramsdens and Their Huddersfield Estate, 1542-1920: Essays to Commemorate the Centenary of the Purchase of the Estate by Huddersfield Corporation in 1920","authors":"B. Barber","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2021.1932086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2021.1932086","url":null,"abstract":"told that the concept of the Mechanics Institute was born here, thanks to the Birkbeck family who moved in as yeomen in 1698 and then did well. It gained one of its own in 1831. London’s Birkbeck College owes its start in 1823 to the same family, with their very northern name, and their belief in self-improvement for all. The final two sections are essentially made up of paragraphs about interesting people and notable buildings, which leads to some repetition, but on the whole it does add miniature rounded case studies which flesh out the processes of communal development already outlined. It also brings out variety, in particular, as with the cluster of eleven families sharing the unusual surname ‘Ralph’ in 1851. None were ‘high-born’. And none became rich, but they covered a spectrum from a master carpenter through other tradesmen to mill workers, farm labourers and paupers. Also, although the majority of people never had the chance to achieve much, the classic rags to riches story of John Delaney, who was born in Stalybridge of Irish extraction in 1846, and came to Settle to work in a mill, shows that it really was occasionally possible to make something of oneself. Via the Co-op, he got into shop-keeping, and via quarry work he earned a degree in geology from Manchester University. He ultimately made a fortune from limestone, which brought him a big house and a role as a J.P. All in all, I can only hope this book enjoys impressive sales, and inspires others to try something similar for other communities.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"93 1","pages":"190 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2021.1932086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48204632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}