Ex-Scotland, Yeavering, Anglo-Saxon settlement - timber halls (Bede's Ad Gefrin) and Iron Age Hill fort, Northumberland (NGR NT 926 305) Copy of interpretation of cropmarks, excavations by Brian Hope ...

Description Ex-Scotland, Yeavering, Anglo-Saxon settlement - timber halls (Bede's Ad Gefrin) and Iron Age Hill fort, Northumberland (NGR NT 926 305) Copy of interpretation of cropmarks, excavations by Brian Hope-Taylor 1953-1962

Date 1953 to 1962

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

Catalogue Number E 33955 P

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 757073

Scope and Content Interpretation of crop-marks, Yeavering, Northumberland The palace complex was revealed by crop-marks visible on aerial photographs taken by Professor St Joseph. Brian Hope-Taylor produced this plan of the site based on his interpretation of the crop-marks. It shows the general layout of the palace structures, including the rectangular buildings and (on the right) the Great Enclosure. The Anglo-Saxon site was first established in the 5th century near a number of prehistoric monuments - a stone circle, at least one barrow and several cremations. The site was at its height in the 7th century AD. 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/48/5

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