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Monument Number 60325
Hob Uid: 60325
Location : North Yorkshire Ryedale Pickering
Grid Ref : SE7782080650
Summary : An Iron Age and Romano-British lake village settlement excavated in 1893 and between 1925 and 1929. There are no visible remains.
More information : (SE 7782 8065) Lake dwelling (NR) (site of) (NAT) (1) Costa Beck lake dwelling site excavated on the E bank in 1893 and on the E and W banks in 1925-29. Wooden piles were seen 4' or 5' apart at a depth of 6' and tops of piles also protruded above the bed of the stream. Finds in 1893 including nearly 60 different patterns of jars and urns, bones of animals and of four humans, one being a child associated with a perfect RB jar (2) "small and beautifully shaped of fine black clay" (3). The later finds included animal bones (mostly domestic); one human bone; pot boilers; and about 20 or 30 sherds of gritty ware of a blackness probably due to the surrounding mud (2). (2-3) No surface indications. (4) Listed by Challis & Harding as a Settlement site (Iron Age). (5)

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Source details : OS 6" 1929
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Source details : (M Kitson Clark)
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Vol(s) : 30 - 1931

Source Number : 3
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Source details : Kitson-Clark M 1935 Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire p76
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Source Number : 4
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Source details : F1 ISS 17-DEC-75
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Source Number : 5
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Page(s) : 29 39 42
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Vol(s) : 20(i-ii)

Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Iron Age
Display Date : Iron Age
Monument End Date : 43
Monument Start Date : -800
Monument Type : Lake Village
Evidence : Sub Surface Deposit

Monument Period Name : Roman
Display Date : Roman
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Monument Type : Lake Village, Inhumation, Settlement
Evidence : Sub Surface Deposit, Find

Components and Objects:

Period : Roman
Component Monument Type : Lake Village, Inhumation, Settlement
Object Type : VESSEL
Object Material : Pottery

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SE 78 SE 17
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1893-01-01
End Date : 1893-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1925-01-01
End Date : 1929-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1975-12-17
End Date : 1975-12-17

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 60325