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Upcoming Talk – Knaresborough Hoard, 28th February

By Chris | February 10, 2025February 23, 2025 by Chris

On Friday 28th February we’re hosting our first event of 2025; come and learn about the mystery of the Roman Knaresborough Hoard – local history on your doorstep! In 1864 the country’s largest ever discovery of late Roman copper-alloy vessels was made near Knaresborough. Recent work by a team based at Newcastle University, in collaboration with the Yorkshire Museum, has led to fresh understanding of this amazing hoard. Prof James Gerrard, an archaeologist based at…

Fieldwork

Fieldwalking Day – 1st September

By Chris | September 2, 2024October 19, 2024 by Chris

We had a great day field walking this past weekend – thanks to all those who came down to help and those that made a donation to help us run further activities! All very much appreciated! For this session we covered part of the upper end of the field, closer to houses: The conditions on the ground made it trickier than the stretch of fields at the bottom that we covered last year, but nevertheless…

Fieldwork

Fieldwalking Report – 23/24th September

By Chris | September 26, 2023September 12, 2024 by Chris

Our first fieldwork days are done! Thank you very much to everyone that came along to the open fieldwalking day on Sunday, as you can see from the photos we had a great turn out of both adults and younger archaeologists. The fieldwalking took place in the field close to Helensfield nature area, between New Lane and Red Lane: This field was chosen as it is the route the Roman Road takes from Skipbridge and…

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Upcoming Event – Green Hammerton Field Walking

By Chris | September 8, 2023September 9, 2023 by Chris

We’ve got exciting news from the GHAS committee – there’s an upcoming chance to get hands on in our search for the Green Hammerton Roman Road! We have permission with the landowner for a surface survey of the field between Ambretone Park and Helenfield. This has been organised around the current crop rotation so our access window is very limited. Consequently on Sunday 24th September we’re asking for your support in doing a field walk to look…

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Upcoming Event – The Archaeology of Green Hammerton, 12th June

By Chris | May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 by Chris

I’ll be re-running our January talk on the archaeology research that we’ve done on Green Hammerton on Monday 12th June. This will be one of the Kirk Hammerton History Society monthly talks. So if you didn’t manage to attend the first time, or you would like to hear it again, please join us from 1930 onwards at the village hall in Kirk Hammerton.

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Green and Kirk Hammerton in the Domesday Book

By Chris | April 1, 2023March 18, 2023 by Chris

opendomesday.org lists Green Hammerton with the following entry: Altera Hanbretone, altera meaning “other”. The entry immediately above on the same folio is listed as being for Kirk Hammerton: Kirk Hammerton being listed as just Hanbretone. However, if we look in more detail at the entries, our contention is that these two are the wrong way around on the opendomesday.org site, and the listing for Kirk Hammerton is actually Green Hammerton. This is the listing for…

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The Archaeology of Green Hammerton: Sources of Information Part 2

By Chris | February 7, 2023January 30, 2023 by Chris

In part 1 of this series, we looked at the first set of sources we used to research the archaeology of Green Hammerton. In this second part, we’ll look at the remaining sources of information available to us. Historic Maps Historic maps, provided by the National Library of Scotland, can give us clue to how the village has changed over time. You can see an example here from 1848, but we also have maps going…

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The Archaeology of Green Hammerton: Sources of Information Part 1

By Chris | January 31, 2023January 30, 2023 by Chris

In this series of articles, we will summarize the talk that we recently gave at the Village Club covering “The Archaeology of Green Hammerton: What We Know So Far”. In the first part, we will look at sources of information we can use to find out about the archaeology of our village. Even without putting a shovel into the ground we can find out a great deal about our past using the many sources of…