A Talk for the High Wolds Heritage Group
The Humber Sites and
Monuments Record
Ruth Atkinson
Sites and Monuments Record Officer
NB: NO MATERIAL CAN BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE
PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR
Ruth.Atkinson@hullcc.gov.uk
Humber Archaeology Partnership
Humber Field
Archaeology
Humber Sites
and
Monuments
Record
Humber Archaeology Partnership
Thomas Jefferys map of 1775
Copy of SMR 1:10,000 basemap red areas show archaeological sites and finds,
blue areas show scheduled monuments
Copy of SMR 1:2500 basemap red areas show archaeological sites and finds,
purple areas show archaeological fieldwork
A collection of pottery from
Rudston
Cropmarks of Roman period
features
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Visitors to the SMR
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Huggate from the air
View across the Wolds Landscape
Cropmarks
of
prehistoric
settlement
and
barrows
Earthworks of Huggate Dykes
Stone tools, similar to those that
would have been used within the
area
Dyke system extending across the
Wolds landscape
A Bronze Age round barrow still
standing as an earthwork
The ring ditch of the round barrow
before excavation
The barrow during excavation
The quarry
ditch that
runs around
the edge of
the round
barrow
The central grave during
excavation
Central
grave pit
during
excavation
The excavated burial
Cropmarks of ring ditches
An example of a
Bronze Age
Beaker
Iron Age/Romano-British
settlement site
Iron Age Square barrow cemetery
at Wetwang
Cropmarks of square barrows
Square
barrows
undergoing
excavation
Chariot burials
Reconstruction of an Iron Age
chariot
Iron Age swords from South Cave
Part of scabbard
and detail of
decoration on
sword
Reconstruction
of Iron Age
figures
Iron Age
pottery
Cropmarks of settlement
complex
Example of
Roman
pottery
Roman Mosaic at Rudston
Example of Anglo-Saxon village
Plan of burials within barrow at
Uncleby
Anglo-Saxon
whetstone
from Uncleby
cemetery
Interpretation
of cropmarks
suggesting
Anglo-Saxon
settlement
The church of St
Nicholas,
Wetwang dating
back to the mid
12th century
Shrunken medieval village traces at
Huggate
Plan of Huggate shrunken
medieval village earthworks
Deserted medieval village with
ridge and furrow
Ridge and furrow as earthworks
Cross Base at Huggate
The village pump at Wetwang
Late 17th or early 18th century
Manor House at Kirby Underdale
Huggate Dykes – a major
prehistoric feature still evident
within the surrounding landscape