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A Preliminary Study of Flood Remediation in Hebden Bridge and Appleby
This report presents some preliminary findings of site visits to properties in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, ten...
Report Number: 11/2017Research Report -
Former West Range, First White Cloth Hall, 100 Kirkgate, Leeds, West Yorkshire: Tree-ring Analysis of ex situ Timbers
Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on samples from 19 oak timbers and one conifer timber, all ex situ, from the former west range of First White...
Report Number: 52/2019Research Report -
Early Fabric in Historic Towns: Beverley - 15 Flemingate, Beverley, East Yorkshire: Tree-Ring and Radiocarbon Analysis of Oak Timbers
Tree-ring analysis of samples taken from 15 Flemingate, Beverley, resulted in the construction of two site sequences: BEVGSQ01, a site sequence of 92...
Report Number: 83/2019Research Report -
Ferry Fryston, Site D, Yorkshire: Freeze-lifting, Conservation and Analysis of Grave Goods from an Early Bronze Age Burial
A soil block from an early Bronze Age inhumation was freeze lifted. The laboratory excavation recovered a variety of copper alloy artefacts, some with...
Report Number: 55/2008Research Report -
TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF WATTLING FROM THE MILL POND (SITE 30) AND GRAVEYARD (SITE 71), WHARRAM PERCY, N YORKSHIRE.
A series of wattle and post alignments, probably helping to revet the mill pond (site 30) and dating to around the 12th century, were sampled for tree-ring...
Report Number: 91/1989Research Report -
THE EXAMINATION OF IRON ARTEFACTS, RAW MATERIALS AND WASTE PRODUCTS FROM ROCKLEY BLAST FURNACE, WORSBOROUGH, SOUTH YORKSHIRE, 1978-82
A range of materials and artefacts from the excavation of an historical blast furnace, believed to have been adapted to use coke rather than charcoal,...
Report Number: 40/1995Research Report -
Oughtibridge Hall, Oughtibridge Lane, Oughtibridge, South Yorkshire: Tree-Ring Analysis, Oxygen Isotope Dendrochronology, and Radiocarbon Wiggle-matching of Oak Timbers
Tree-ring analysis was undertaken on cores from 41 of the 51 timbers sampled, these timbers being associated with the hall range, east and west cross-wings,...
Report Number: 226/2020Research Report -
Rosedale Branch East Railway, North Yorkshire: Archaeological survey and investigation of a short section east of the Dale Head embankment
The Rosedale Branch East Railway opened in 1865 to serve the East Mines (ironstone) and roasting kilns of the Rosedale Mining Company at Low Baring; it...
Report Number: 62/2019Research Report -
Priests’ Room & Annex, Church of St Mary, North Bar Within, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire: Tree-ring analysis of timbers
Two samples taken from main beams of the roof of the Annex of the Church of St Mary, Beverley, have been dated, one to a felling date range of AD 1335–60...
Report Number: 221/2020Research Report -
All Saints Church, Sancton, Near Market Weighton, East Yorkshire: Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers from the Belfry Floor and Bellframe
Fourteen timbers were sampled from the belfry floor and the bellframe. Six samples were found to have too few rings to be considered for further analysis....
Report Number: 82/2009Research Report -
THE ANIMAL BONES FROM THE EXCAVATION OF A ROMAN SITE AT RUDSTON, YORKSHIRE. PART 2. THE BUILDINGS AND OTHER FEATURES
Report Number: 3466Research Report
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Moor Dyke, Wykeham Forest: archaeological survey report
In October 1995 RCHME undertook an archaeological investigation and analytical field survey of later prehistoric linear ditches, round and square barrows,...
Report Number: 103/1996Research Report -
Southern Magnesian Limestone, Chalk and Limestone Mixed
Comprising an elevated ridge with smoothly rolling landform, this area is dissected by dry valleys of predominantly Magnesium Limestone geology. It extends...
Report Number: 34/2020Research Report -
Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfred, Ripon, North Yorkshire Nave Roof and Ceiling: Wiggle-Match Radiocarbon Dating of Timbers
Tree-ring analysis was undertaken on a total of 30 core samples from the principal oak timbers of the roof and ceiling ribs of the nave of Ripon Cathedral....
Report Number: 73/2014Research Report -
Calverley Old Hall, 14–24 Woodhall Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire: Tree-Ring Analysis, Radiocarbon Wiggle-matching, and Oxygen Isotope Dendrochronology of Timbers
Tree-ring analysis undertaken on samples from several areas of Calverley Old Hall resulted in the successful dating of 100 timbers by a combination of...
Report Number: 92/2024Research Report -
Vale of Pickering, Eastern Arable
The Vale of Pickering comprises an area of lowland – mainly drained by the rivers Derwent and Rye – bordered by the foothills of the North York Moors...
Report Number: 30/2020Research Report -
1 and 3 Market Place, Snaith, Snaith and Cowick, East Riding of Yorkshire: Tree-Ring Analysis and Radiocarbon Wiggle-Matching of Oak Timbers
Dendrochronological analysis was undertaken on core samples from six timbers from 1 and 3 Market Place, Snaith. This analysis produced a single site chronology,...
Report Number: 27/2024Research Report -
The Ruins of All Hallows’ Church, Birdsall Estate, Ryedale, North Yorkshire: An architectural and archaeological analysis of the church ruins and adjacent earthworks
Between 2017 and 2018 Historic England undertook a survey and investigation of the ruins of All Hallows’ Church and surrounding earthwork remains within...
Report Number: 59/2019Research Report -
ANIMAL BONES FROM EXCAVATIONS AT A MEDIEVAL HOSPITAL AND A POST-MEDIEVAL FARMSTEAD AT ST GILES BY BROMPTON BRIDGE, NORTH YORKSHIRE, 1989-1990
The animal bones from excavations at St Giles by Brompton Bridge indicate that the medieval hospital consisted mainly of a humble, self-sufficient farming...
Report Number: 95/1993Research Report -
INTERIM REPORT ON THE TREE-RING ANALYSIS OF OAK TIMBERS FROM TWO BARNS AT HEADLEY HALL FARM, UPPER HEADLEY, NEAR THORNTON, WEST YORKSHIRE
The farmstead of Headley Hall Farm comprises a particularly fine Elizabethan hall house and a number of farm outbuildings surrounded by a curtilage wall....
Report Number: 10/2001Research Report
