Ex-Scotland, Yeavering, Anglo-Saxon settlement - timber halls (Bede's Ad Gefrin) and Iron Age Hill fort (NGR 926 305) Copy of plan of site showing field boundaries, excavations by Brian Hope-Taylor 19 ...

Description Ex-Scotland, Yeavering, Anglo-Saxon settlement - timber halls (Bede's Ad Gefrin) and Iron Age Hill fort (NGR 926 305) Copy of plan of site showing field boundaries, 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 760282

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Plan of site showing field boundaries, Yeavering, Northumberland This plan illustrates the location of all the buildings on the site and the great enclosure (on the right). The dot-and-dash lines represent features which were originally interpreted as traces of a field-system. A Romano-British cremation burial accompanied by a glass bead was found in this area, and it was thought that the fields were of the same date. After the excavation it was shown that the 'fields' were frost wedges produced when the ground was subject to perma-frost at the end of the last Ice Age. 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/40/13

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/760282

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