Anglo-Saxon settlements and archaeological
visibility in the Yorkshire Wolds
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Title of host publication | Early Deira: Archaeological studies of the East Riding in the fourth to ninth centuries AD |
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Date | Published - 2000 |
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Pages | 27-39 |
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Number of pages | 12 |
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Publisher | Oxbow Books |
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Place of Publication | Oxford, UK |
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Original language | English |
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ISBN (Print) | 1900188902 |
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Rural Anglo-Saxon settlements in the hinterland of York
are notoriously invisible. As a result of major urban rescue
archaeology campaigns in the 1970s, more could be
inferred about Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire from finds in York
than from rural sites. That picture is gradually changing.
During the last ten yews, research on two sites in the
Yorkshire Wolds - Wharram Percy and Cottam - now
allows us to explain this invisibility, and to characterise
settlements of this period. This paper describes how a
battery of archaeologica1 techniques, including aerial
photography, resistivity, magnetometry, fieldwalking,
excavation, and collaboration with metal-detectorists
have been used in combination to identify and map these
sites, with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) used
to integrate the information. The conclusion to be drawn
is that early medieval sites are not so much invisible as
hitherto unrecognised, and the foundations have now been
laid for a programme of identification based upon remote
sensing and cropmark morphology.
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