Ex-Scotland, Yeavering, Anglo-Saxon settlement - timber halls (Bede's Ad Gefrin) and Iron Age Hill fort (NGR 926 305) Copy of plan and section of C2, C3 and C4b, excavations by Brian Hope-Taylor 1953- ...

Description Ex-Scotland, Yeavering, Anglo-Saxon settlement - timber halls (Bede's Ad Gefrin) and Iron Age Hill fort (NGR 926 305) Copy of plan and section of C2, C3 and C4b, 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 760292

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Plan of timber halls, Yeavering, Northumberland This group of plans was used in the report to demonstrate the layout of three successive superimposed timber halls. The complexity of the overall plan of the three buildings made it difficult to appreciate the designs of the individual sites, so Hope-Taylor prepared separate plans of each hall. Brian Hope-Taylor was also renowned for his skills in archaeological illustration. The report on these excavations remains model of its kind, not least in the technical expertise developed in the recognition of the decayed timber buildings and the quality of the line drawings used to illustrate these discoveries. 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

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