PREHISTORIC SOCIETY
STUDENT STUDY TOUR TO THE YORKSHIRE DALES, 4-6 APRIL 2014
Leaders: Robert White, Miles Johnson, Alex Gibson and Debbie Hallam.
Cost per student £75.00 to include transport and accommodation (B&B at Kettlewell Youth Hostel).
You will need to provide your own evening meals and lunch on Saturday 5 th. A packed lunch will be
provided for Sunday 6th. The weekend will involve walking over rough moorland and pasture. You will
need walking boots AND warm, waterproof clothes.
ITINERARY
Friday 4th April
Meet at Bradford University, Div of Archaeological Sciences then at 16.00 – Drive to Kettlewell YHA. Evening free
Saturday 5th April
Morning
Druids Altar (Bordley Circle): SD 949 653 Possible four-poster stone circle built on a cairn. Has also been
interpreted as an embanked stone circle. Unusual for Pennine circles in that the stones are over 90cm high
Bordley Field systems and settlement: described by the Ordnance Survey as “An Iron Age settlement and
Field System centred at SD 952650. The settlement consists of five probable hut-circles (mainly irregular shaped
ill-defined collapsed turf-covered rubble walling from about 4m to 9m in diameter) set mainly against the field
walls and larger enclosures; and a few small and two large, probably stock enclosures. The field system mainly
on the summit and north facing slope consists of the natural east to west limestone terraces overlaid by walls
(now much robbed turf covered footings) running in a generally north to south direction down the slope with a few
sub-divisions roughly at right angles. The whole area is much covered by limestone paving with little soil”. Fine
landscape setting.
Threshfield henges: Pending access en route to Yarnbury Henge – SE014654
View Lea Green IA settlement/field systems/cairns etc. (SD 995 656)
Lunch in Grassington
Afternoon
Conistone: a steep climb up to Scot Gate Lane onto Dales Way footpath at SD 993 683. Along footpath
towards Kettlewell. Series of Prehistoric enclosures with potential Bronze Age burial cairn at SD 991 691, cross
over ditch marked on HER as a Dark Age droving route but has elements suggesting it was originally a co-axial
boundary. More co-axial boundaries further on can be seen running under walls ignoring modern boundary lines.
Enclosures on limestone terrace above Swineber Scar: SD985 697
Visit site surveyed by Debbie Hallam –hut circles and enclosures overlain by later rectangular earthworks.
Area of flint findspots. (Walk distance required is about 3.5miles.)
Evening Free
Sunday 6th April
Maiden Castle, Grinton SE022981 Possibly Neolithic embanked enclosure with entrance avenue.
co-axial field systems etc on Harkerside (SE0398).
Castle Dykes Henge (SD982873) (time permitting)
Return to Bradford late afternoon for onward travel home.
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