Forty Years' Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire: Including Romano-British Discoveries, and a Description of the Ancient E

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-08143-6
Verlag: CAMBRIDGE

Buch, Englisch, 768 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology

A self-taught archaeologist, John Robert Mortimer (1825–1911) published this record of his excavations in east Yorkshire in 1905. A corn merchant and brewer by trade, he became fascinated by fossils and flint implements after a visit to the Great Exhibition in 1851, and paid local labourers for any finds they brought to him. From 1863, he began to dig in the Bronze Age barrows near his home in Driffield, as well as an Iron Age cemetery and some Anglo-Saxon burials. The book is notable for its skilful illustrations, by his teenage daughter Agnes. Although his understanding of stratigraphy was limited, Mortimer's recordings are full of detail, providing data on archaeological sites which were already under threat of unsystematic plunder. He was anxious that his collection should stay in the area: it was eventually accepted by the local authority, and remains a valuable archaeological resource.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mortimer, J. R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial; Preface; Index to barrows; Introduction; Part I. Description of the Barrows: 1. The Towthorpe group; 2. The Wharam Percy group; 3. The Aldro group; 4. The Acklam Wold group; 5. The Hanging Grimston group; 6. The Painsthorpe Wold group; 7. The Garrowby Wold group; 8. The Calais Wold group; 9. The Riggs group; 10. The Fimber group; 10a. The Life Hill group; 11. The Garton Slack group; 12. The Driffield group; 13. The Huggate Wold group; 14. The Huggate and Warther Wold group; 15. The Blanch group; Barrows not grouped; Part II. Anglo-Saxon Remains, British Earthworks, Etc.: Anglo-Saxon remains at Londesborough; British remains at Middleton; Roman(?) remains at North Grimston; British chariots; Ancient entrenchments; Ancient hollow-ways; Habitation terraces; Cultivation terraces; Embankment crosses; Tables of barrows, interments, and articles; Sumamry of all the groups; Index.