Yorkshire Archaeol Soc Prehist Res Sec Bull 45

Plans to restore and refurbish Scarborough's Rotunda and Wood End Museums are described, and the history of the Rotunda Museum is outlined. The article also includes

The article prints the text of a letter from the author to the Curator of Archaeology at Leeds Museum and Resource Centre, protesting against the proposal to exclude prehistoric and Roman material from plans for the refurbished Leeds City Gallery on the grounds that they were irrelevant to the story of the Leeds area. The successful outcome of the objections raised by the author and others is reported.

Brief article on new work being undertaken at the Mesolithic site of Star Carr, including fieldwalking, test-pitting and more extensive excavations and also revealing deterioration of the site due to drying out and peat shrinkage.

The article discusses the evidence for fishing during the early post-glacial period, and examples of bone or flint artefacts interpreted as fish-hooks, with particular reference to a flint microlith recovered from the riverside `Base Camp' site at Whitwell House Farm, Mid-Wharfdale.

Article presenting an update concerning the Neolithic site of Thornborough Henges; gravel extraction activities in its vicinity; and interactions with Tarmac, the company responsible, with the aim of conserving the site.

The article describes the excavation on Hatfield Moors of a 45m Neolithic corduroy trackway leading from Lindholme Island into a bog, to a platform constructed of wooden poles. It is suggested that it was constructed at a time of environmental change, and was intended for ceremonial purposes.

Note on the discovery of a carved stone, believed to date to the Bronze Age period, on Whitby Abbey Headland, North Yorkshire.

The report presents a detailed look at a group of arrowheads collected as surface finds from the Upper Calder Valley, selected as diagnostic artefacts for a preliminary assessment of the extent of activity during the Neolithic and Bronze Age in this area.

Summary of the third season of excavations undertaken at a multi-period site near Loftus, on the northern edge of the North York Moors. The paper presents the results of the 2006 excavations not covered in previous reports, along with an outline of the prehistoric features and finds from 2007 and some information about the Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Prehistoric features included a hearth-saltern associated with the manufacture of salt from seawater, and structures associated with the Iron Age settlement.

The author discusses the significance of colour in Iron Age decoration of objects, with particular reference to the use of red on swords and other artefacts found in East Yorkshire.

Report on excavations carried out at a riverside site at Kingsdale Head, which uncovered evidence of prehistoric and medieval activity.

Account of an archaeological survey of Fylingdales Moor which uncovered a range of sites, and also describing an exhibition at Whitby Museum associated with the project. A small cairn and a gullied structure at Stoup Brow are described in detail.

The author describes his work and motivation in depicting prehistoric monuments in many of his landscape paintings.