{"title":"The Sources and Contributors of the Northern Memorandum and its Heirs","authors":"Flint F. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2019.1624420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2019.1624420","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract From the moment the first scholars tried to understand the events of Britain during the fifth and early sixth centuries, two British historical documents have been central to their efforts, the Historia Brittonum and the Annales Cambriae, both of which contained entries from a non-extant but generally accepted common source — the Northern Memorandum. Logically, learning as much as possible about the exact nature of that source would be of great use in better understanding post-Roman Britain. To begin rectifying the situation this article will review what is known about the background of the Northern Memorandum, Historia Brittonum, and Annales Cambriae. It will then explore the Historia Brittonum’s chapters and revisions and do the same with the Annales Cambriae entries up until the last northern British note. In each case the individual source(s), motivations, and date-range will be discussed. This exercise will be followed by a short discussion of the findings and one hopes a better understanding of both the Northern Memorandum and its derivatives.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"91 1","pages":"111 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2019.1624420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42071091","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":"Excavations on the Site of the Portobello Cutlery Works and Adjacent Court Housing, Sheffield","authors":"P. Mason, A. Chapman, J. Unwin","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2019.1615300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2019.1615300","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Work undertaken on the former site of the Sheffield Assay Office uncovered structural remains relating to the Portobello Cutlery Works which traded from the mid-nineteenth century as Francis Newton and Sons. A neighbouring block of court housing, cleared, along with the factory, in the second quarter of the twentieth century, was also investigated. As a result of this work a wide-ranging body of cartographic, documentary and excavated evidence has helped build a cohesive picture of the cutlery works and the workers housing during their lifespan.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"91 1","pages":"110 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2019.1615300","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44349382","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":"Medieval Activity at Mill Lane, Leeming, North Yorkshire","authors":"S. Ross, Greg Speed","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2019.1614773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2019.1614773","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Two phases of medieval activity were identified during excavation within three fields at Mill Lane, Leeming (centred at SE 290 890) in 2009 in advance of widening works during upgrading of the A1 to motorway status.The earlier phase, dating probably to the later eleventh or twelfth century, included an area containing truncated remains of a series of pits, gullies, and ditches containing large, unabraded sherds of pottery and carbonised plant assemblages considered indicative of domestic activity. Although no structures were identified, the evidence suggests the presence of a small farmstead undertaking mixed arable cultivation and possibly dairying. Nearby was a large ditched enclosure containing a series of smaller enclosures possibly associated with stock-handling. In the thirteenth century, perhaps in association with a new settlement at Leeming first documented in c. AD 1200, the whole area was divided by ditches into a series of strip-fields containing ridge-and-furrow. These cut across the features of the earlier settlement, indicating either that these had already been abandoned or were cleared for the new agricultural regime. The large enclosure was retained but converted to arable use.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"91 1","pages":"167 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2019.1614773","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48683654","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":"Whirlow Hall Farm: Sheffield’s Forgotten Henge?","authors":"T. Cockrell, Camilla Priede, Colin Merrony","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2019.1608723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2019.1608723","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The prehistory of southern Yorkshire and the north east midlands is poorly understood in scholarship. Its Neolithic and Bronze Age in particularly rarely figure in wider discourses in Britain. This is partly due to its apparent dearth of monumental sites. This paper describes the re-discovery of a large circular enclosure first mapped in the 1970s and subsequently forgotten. Overlooking the city of Sheffield, it proves that the region was an integral part of that wider prehistoric world and not marginal to it. The enclosure, a possible ‘henge’, is not alone. South Yorkshire, with its diverse environments and prehistoric archaeology, should no longer be marginalised.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"91 1","pages":"1 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2019.1608723","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41484660","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":"‘The Great Yorkshire Way’: Iron Age and Romano-British Activity Near Rossington, South Yorkshire","authors":"P. Daniel","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2019.1614764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2019.1614764","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Between 2012 and 2014 Wessex Archaeology investigated field system remains in advance of the construction of a new road to the south of Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Radiocarbon dates indicate that the field system was established in the late Iron Age with subsequent extension and renewal in the first half of the Romano-British period. The environmental evidence indicates Iron Age clearance and agriculture, followed by possible woodland regeneration. Damp, grazed pasture, with some indication of arable cultivation in the wider area, can be detected during the Romano-British phase, with wetter conditions and an increase in alder fen-carr coinciding with the end of archaeologically visible activity. The site lay close to a Roman town, potteries, and military bases, yet relatively little engagement with Roman material culture can be detected on the part of the indigenous population. Overall, there appears to have been continuity in local land management and farming practices from the Iron Age into the Romano-British period.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"91 1","pages":"18 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2019.1614764","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42467797","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":"Beck House in Giggleswick: The House and its Builder","authors":"R. Hoyle","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2019.1624423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2019.1624423","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Beck House in Giggleswick has been largely overlooked by local and architectural historians. Its architectural quality raises the question of when it was built and by whom. Whilst offering a description of the house, this paper draws on the title deeds and other materials to show that the builder was almost certainly one Charles Nowell (d. 1749), a gentleman with connections to the legal and gentry circles of north Craven and who may have been a lawyer himself. The house was probably erected soon after Nowell’s acquisition of the site in 1720. Parallels are explored.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"91 1","pages":"131 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2019.1624423","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42541194","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 Aldborough: A Re-assessment and Overview","authors":"R. Brickstock","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2019.1607672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2019.1607672","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper presents an analysis and overview of some two thousand Roman coins recovered from Aldborough and close environs. It is part of an on-going programme of publication and re-assessment by the author of coinage from major sites along the line of Roman Dere Street (including York, Catterick, Piercebridge, Binchester, and Corbridge); and it is also intended to provide a companion-piece to the extensive programme of survey and excavation at Aldborough currently being undertaken by Prof. Martin Millett and Rose Ferraby of Cambridge University.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"91 1","pages":"49 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2019.1607672","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41612870","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":"The Accommodation, Experiences and Concerns of the Mentally Unwell Poor in Mid-nineteenth Century Leeds","authors":"G. Rawson","doi":"10.1080/00844276.2019.1624422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00844276.2019.1624422","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Prior to the implementation of the Poor Law Amendment Act, the provision for the mentally ill poor in the nineteenth century was founded in local welfare mechanisms. Township administrations had several choices for their accommodation: pension type payments or casual relief to help maintain them in their homes in the community; admittance to the workhouse; or application to the county asylum. Analysis of the case notes of patients treated in the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Stanley Royds near Wakefield, correlated with local records, permits an investigation into the concerns, experiences and beliefs of those admitted there. In so doing it reveals the social, religious and economic preoccupations which may have contributed to illness, and provides a rich insight into the lives of the poor in mid-nineteenth century Leeds.","PeriodicalId":40237,"journal":{"name":"Yorkshire Archaeological Journal","volume":"91 1","pages":"144 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00844276.2019.1624422","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45469281","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}