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Excavation of a neolithic house at Yarnbury, near Grassington, North Yorkshire

Yes / Landscape geophysical survey around the small upland ‘henge’ at Yarnbury, Grassington, North Yorkshire revealed few anthropogenic features around the enclosure but did identify a small rectangular structure in the same field. Sample trenching of this feature, radiocarbon and archaeomagnetic dating proved it to be an earlier Neolithic post and wattle structure of a type that is being increasingly recognised in Ireland and the west of Britain. It is the first to be recognised in the Yorkshire Dales and it is argued that the Dales may have been pivotal in the Neolithic for east–west trade as well as pastoral upland agriculture.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/8747
Date05 1900
CreatorsGibson, Alex M., Neubauer, W., Flöry, S., Filzwieser, R., Nau, E., Schneidhofer, P., Strapazzon, G., Batt, Catherine M., Greenwood, David P.
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, Accepted manuscript
RightsUnspecified

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