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Asselby to Panal Natural Gas Pipeline: The South Dyke and Becca |
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Network Archaeology unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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| Abstract: |
An archaeological excavation was carried out on Becca Banks, a linear bank-and-ditch monument forming part of the scheduled Aberford Dykes complex, in advance of the construction of a gas pipeline. A 22m-long section of Becca Banks was investigated. A ditch, a post hole alignment, and an extensive buried soil were found sealed beneath the monument bank. Environmental remains suggest that prior to the construction of Becca Banks the local habitat was pastoral grassland with some areas of shaded scrub. Becca Banks seems to have been built in the late pre-Roman Iron Age as a physical manifestation of the authority of native rulers. At some point after the construction of the monument, part of the bank and the hillside on which it sat on collapsed back into the ditch. Little evidence was recorded of re-use at Becca Banks, although Iron Age land boundaries seem to have persisted into the Roman period. Two early medieval pits reveal cereal cultivation and crop rotation were undertaken here. Becca Banks ditch was not fully infilled until the 19th century. In the mid-20th century the monument, and the field boundary it had hitherto marked, were destroyed. The recent investigations on the Aberford Dykes now allow them to be better understood. The Aberford Dykes are commonly referred to as a system of monuments, but they lack unity of design, and instead should be seen as a series of earthworks of varied appearance and purpose that developed over a long period. |
| Author: |
P Daniel
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Network Archaeology
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| Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
West Yorkshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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| Year of Publication: |
2012
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Becca Banks |
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West Yorkshire |
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Leeds |
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ABERFORD |
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England |
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Grid Reference: 444225, 438135 (Easting, Northing)
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networka2-119295 |
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NAL Rep No. 590 |
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Client report of c. 110 A4 spiral-bound pages containing: excavation data; specialist analysis of the artefacts and environmental samples; full results of radiocarbon dating; and a discussion of the monuments. Plates, figures, tables, appendices etc. This text formed the basis of Network Archaeology's submission to the monograph to be produced by Oxford Archaeology North which will present the results from the archaeological investigations along the rest of the Asselby to Pannal pipeline.
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22 Oct 2020 |
