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Category: Civil Structure

Anciens Arsenaux Neolithic Settlement, Sion – Switzerland

Filed under Animal Remains, Augustus Caesar, Civil Structure, Dragons, Early Neolithic, Enclosure, Europe, Field Systems, Hamlet, Hoof marks, Julius Caesar, Myth and Legend, Neolithic, New Sites, Planig‑Friedberg ware, Polished Stone Adze, Pottery, Quern Stones, Roman army, Roman baths, Roman City, Roman Culture, Roman Villa, Switzerland, The Devil, Vasi a Bocca Quadrata ware, Witches

Sion lies midway along the upper Rhône Valley, an east‑west trench gouged by repeated Pleistocene glaciers and now flanked by the Pennine and Bernese Alps. The settlement area sits on the alluvial fan of the Sionne torrent, a cone of well‑sorted sands and gravels that projects onto the wider Rhône flood‑plain. 

Aldborough Roman Town

Filed under Brigantia England, Burial Mound, Early Christian, Iron Age, Mosaic, Mound, Roman, Town

Aldborough, or Isurium Brigantia as it was known in Roman times was the capital of Brigantia, at least from some point during Cartimandua’s acceptance as client Queen, governed by Rome. As such, it is a key site in our search for Brigantia

Age, Aldborough, iron, Isurium Brigantium, mosaic, North Yorkshire, Roman, syncretism, Town
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Hutton Rudby

Filed under Bronze Age, Early Christian, Medieval, Regional Surveys, Roman, Village

Hutton Rudby was once known as Hutton-juxta-Rudby, or Hutton-nigh-Rudby, because it is really two villages: Hutton and Rudby, separated from each other by the River Leven. How old is the village? There have been people living here for thousands of years. Stone Age tools have been found in North End.

West Scrafton – Coverdale

Filed under Bridge, Brigantia England, Earthworks, Terraces, Village

West Scrafton is a village located in Coverdale in the Yorkshire Dales. It sits on the southern upward slops of Coverdale, and had its most recent heyday in the 19th century when coal mining took over the village.

Carlton Village – Coverdale

Filed under Geography, Geology, Landscape Archaeology, Village

Nestled in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Carlton in Coverdale is a picturesque village, surrounded by stunning landscapes. Situated in the Coverdale valley, it is a part of the Richmondshire district in North Yorkshire, England.

East Yorkshire

Filed under Brigantia, Brigantia England, Britain, Bronze Age, County, Dark Ages Brigantia, Early Christian, Early Medieval, Europe, Iron Age, Medieval, Neolithic, Parisii, Roman, Saxon

East Yorkshire’s Middle-Iron-Age story stands out in Britain because the communities who farmed the chalk of the Yorkshire Wolds developed what archaeologists call the Arras culture: a distinctive blend of continental La Tène fashions and local invention that is visible above all in their cemeteries. Three elements make it special.