Yorkshire Archaeol J 71

Reports on trial excavations undertaken on a site identified by aerial photographs and geophysical survey. A complex late-prehistoric rural landscape of enclosure systems and settlement sites was identified, with important evidence of continuity in the transitional period between the Late pre-Roman Iron Age and the Roman period. Occupation is not thought to have lasted much beyond the second century AD, although evidence was found for a medieval timber building at the western end of the area examined. Specialist reports comprise: `The pottery' by Peter Didsbury (44--50); `The charred plant remains' by J P Huntley (50--3); `The animal bones' by L J Gidney (54--8); `The molluscs' by John Carrott, Harry Kenwood & Annie Milles (58--61).

A metrological study of the architectural proportions of the church.

Reports on archaeological recording carried out in conjunction with repair work in 1996 and 1997. The structural history of the church was clarified and extended, and plan of the chantry chapel was revealed. A late eleventh-century decorated grave slab was found reused in later foundations. Includes an appendix entitled `Architectural fragments: documentary evidence for the remodelling of Whorlton Old Holy Cross Church' (147--53).

Discusses documentary evidence, notably a sketch of c. 1720 that is thought to show a building now forming the core of the present house.

Identifies from documentary sources some of the small-scale electricity generating companies that were established in the early-twentieth century. A detailed account is provided for the Grassington Electric Supply Company (GMESL), which set up a water-powered generating plant near Linton Mill; the latter then installed a water-powered generator and supplied electricity under lease to GMESL.

Describes the Internet database of manorial documents now available via the Historic Manuscripts Commission website (http://www/hmc.gov.uk).