The Archaeology of Yorkshire: An assessment at the beginning of the 21st century

by T. Manby, S. Moorhouse, P. Ottaway (eds) (2003)

This volume collects together papers arising out of the Yorkshire Archaeological Resource Framework Forum Conference held at Ripon in September 1998. The conference’s purpose was to assess the current state of the archaeological resource within the historic county of Yorkshire with a view to contributing to the development of research agenda in the region.

This volume is divided into sections on the natural environment (including “The geological background to Yorkshire’s archaeology” and “Yorkshire’s palaeoenvironmental resource”); period-based papers (including Neolithic, Bronze, Iron ages and Roman and Medieval periods); and thematic papers.

Thematic papers include:

Researching the prehistory of Wensleydale, Swaledale and Teesdale by T.C. Laurie
Exploring our past in the Humber wetlands: the work of the Humber Wetlands Project
1992-2000 by Robert Van de Noort
Researching an ancient landscape: the Foulness valley, East Yorkshire by Peter
Halkon
The Heslerton Parish Project: 20 years of archaeological research in the Vale of
Pickering by Dominic Powlesland
The anatomy of the Yorkshire Dales: deciphering the medieval landscape by Stephen
Moorhouse
Regional frameworks for medieval rural settlement by Stuart Wrathmell
Urban archaeology in Yorkshire by Steve Roskams
The contribution of museum archaeology to research frameworks by Tony O’Connor
The changing nature of the archaeological resource: Portable Antiquities as part of the
Yorkshire framework by Ceinwen Paynton
Archaeological surveys carried out by the RCHME and English Heritage in
Yorkshire, 1975-2000 by Marcus Jecock
Are your Research Frameworks really necessary? An open letter to English Heritage
from Andrew Selkirk