Ex-Scotland, Yeavering, Anglo-Saxon settlement - timber halls (Bede's Ad Gefrin) and Iron Age Hill fort (NGR 926 305) Copy of view students and workmen on site, excavations by Brian Hope-Taylor 1953-1 ...

Description Ex-Scotland, Yeavering, Anglo-Saxon settlement - timber halls (Bede's Ad Gefrin) and Iron Age Hill fort (NGR 926 305) Copy of view students and workmen on site, excavations by Brian Hope-Taylor 1953-1962 Digital image only

Date c. 1953 to 1962

Collection Papers of Brian Hope-Taylor, archaeologist, Cambridge, England

Catalogue Number SC 760236

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Workmen and students on site, Yeavering, Northumberland This is a view of some archaeological students and a hired workman on site. It was quite common in this period for hired labourers to be used on excavations, rather than trained archaeologists. When the Anglo-Saxons arrived at Yeavering they built an array of timber halls, the largest of which was 25m long and 11m wide. It was thought to be a royal feasting hall, close it was a ditched enclosure, for keeping cattle awaiting the feastings. This was a time when kings, progressed through their lands, living off the produce from their estates. Yeavering was the site of an Anglo-Saxon royal palace associated with the kings of Northumbria. Excavations undertaken by Brian Hope-Taylor between 1953 and 1962 revealed the ground plans of an extraordinary array of timber buildings, which had lain undisturbed since the site was abandoned. The palace entered the historical record in the 7th century when it was mentioned by Bede, who referred to it as 'Ad Gefrin'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference HT/40/1

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/760236

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap