Yorkshire Archaeol J 78

Archaeological investigations in advance of an extension of Burythorpe Churchyard and associated tree-planting revealed features demonstrating occupation from the Late Iron Age or early Roman period to the fourth century AD. The later Roman occupation incorporated structures with stone slab floors, and in a subsequent phase with stone-built walls. It is suggested that in the latest phase the site might represent a possible villa. The finds assemblage incorporates Later Neolithic and Bronze Age lithics, Late Iron Age and Roman ceramics, as well as Roman-period slag, tile and possible tesserae. Includes separately authored contributions on

The article attempts to establish that the village settlement of Flaxton as recorded on the 1911 edition of the 1/2500 scale Ordnance Survey map of the area may represent faithfully the planned single-row settlement as it existed at the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, with the plot frontages of Domesday still largely to be discerned on the ground. There are four distinct stages in the exercise: the number of oxgangs or bovates in the township of Flaxton at Domesday; the relationship in Flaxton of two oxgangs to one tenement; the relationship between the number of tenements and the length of the frontage; and the sequence of events and their dating. The research led to the conclusion that the planned single-row settlement already existed at the time of the Conquest in 1066, and remained largely unchanged until enclosure in 1658.

the presence of a number of early, possibly pre-Conquest, burials was established. one of the early graves yielded a finger-ring believed to be of Late Saxon date. Also revealed were the foundations for what is believed to be the smaller twelfth-century Norman church. The finds assemblage from the graves and grave earth suggest that many of the interments date to the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, there being very few artefacts of medieval date recovered

notes on a fragment of an Anglo-Saxon cross-head; structural alterations to the west tower dating to the fifteenth century; and the excavation of an early-fourteenth-century grave slab

Drawing chiefly upon the evidence from wills, the article investigates the impact of North Riding religious houses upon regional society in the earlier part of the reign of Henry VIII, considers the process of the dissolution and traces the subsequent careers of some of the former monks, friars and nuns.

The article explores mourning practices, the offering of consolation to the bereaved, and commemoration of the dead among the aristocracy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by examining the experiences of elite women in Yorkshire.

Note on a photograph published in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 77 (2005), page 268, featuring a structure referred to as St Chad's Cell. The author suggests that, on the basis of the name, the architectural form and the sculptural detail, this was built from materials from the demolished apse of St Chad's church, Far Headingly, which was consecrated in 1868, having been designed in fourteenth-century Gothic style, and partly demolished in 1909, shortly before the photograph was taken.