Walking the furrows of time in Cleveland
Community volunteers doing field-walking

Walking the furrows of time in Cleveland

Spencer Carter Spencer Carter

Spencer Carter

Managing Director at Cleveland Archaeology Trust CIC

发布日期: 2019年10月13日
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We've completed our 2019 archaeological season of phase 2 evaluation work in Cleveland, north-east England. Sixty hectares (148 acres) of geophysical survey have now been completed, with thanks to Archaeological Services Durham University. If the 2018 results were spectacular, this year adds knee-wobbling results, with evidence for settlement, burials and activities spanning prehistoric to Medieval which we want to understand in future community-inclusive excavations. Finds from systematic field-walking (2m spaced lines and 3D GPS recorded) complement the survey results. We're grateful to the East Cleveland Villages Big Local (National Lottery) for financial support over the last two years, as well as the Skelton & Gilling Estate landowners and Julian the tenant farmer.

Two of our flint finds this year. Left is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint 'knife' (c 3500 - 2000 BC), retouched (worked) along both edges, the upper end broken away. Right is a complete flint blade, well-used on both edges and retouched on the end (top) as a multi-purpose tool, dating anywhere from the Mesolithic to Early Neolithic (say around 6000 to 3500 BC). Both were found in the vicinity of a c 50m diameter ring ditch and other related features, including likely round-house circles. The blade, as complete, suggests we do not have much "disturbance" of archaeological layers below the plough soil, which is only about 30-40cm deep.
Geophysical (megnetic) survey results for this year's 30ha area. The flints, above, are from the features marked with a red arrow - an enclosure and roundhouses likely dating to the Neolithic and Bronze Age.
Some of the 2019 team!


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