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BrigantesNation
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Re: Yorkshire wolds
Jan 06, 2003, 21:44
There's some interesting stuff going on there, check out the ridges to the right of this picture, and the dark bits in the middle.

http://uk.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&x=485763&y=455776&scale=10000&width=700&height=410&gride=483000&gridn=455500&rt=overlay.htm

The best published stuff for the area is to do with the Iron Age burials, particularly the chariot burials, which Ian Stead is the best published, mostly in archaeology journals.

The dikes in the region have mostly been ascribed as boundaries, either tribal or ritual (since some are associated with barrows and pit alignments. Almost none have been dated, although some of the northern earthworks seem to have had several phases of operation, dating from the Bronze to the medievil periods.

Very few of the southern dykes seem to have been published, but I have yet to get my hands on the Scarborough Archy Socs survey of the moors, which may include these southern chaps.

One of the reasons for so many earthworks is the apparent arrival of the Parisii into the Wolds in the earlyish Iron Age. A further reason may have been the unrest in the later Iron Age as the Romans advanced into Brigantia.

Many of these dykes are really big, which indicates if they were tribal boundaries, the tribes weren't too friendly, on the other hand they rarely connect up into a recogniseable defensible area, however, very few have been surveyed, as the Cleave dyke system up at Roulston has, this has been shown to have been completely flattened by agriculture for a significant part of it's original length.
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