Category: Early Christian

St Michael’s Church, Kirklington

St Michael's Church, Kirklington, North Yorkshire

St Michael’s Church at Kirklington stems from prior to the Norman Period and has ghosts of an even earlier period in the form of the various carved heads found inside and outside the church.

East Yorkshire

Beverley Minster

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.

World Heritage

The Tower of Hercules

This is our master collection page for all of our heritage articles and sites. It is the root of our tree of sites covered within Brigantes Nation. Both within and without Brigantia. It is everything that has been of interest, so far.

Monmouth’s Kings of Britain

Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Kings of Britain includes a number of unknown potential kings, as well as some recognised as existing, including King Lear from Shakespeare.

Heads at St Michael, Kirklington

Celtic Heads Celtic Head from Witham, 2nd c B.C. (British Museum) “Celtic” carved heads are found throughout the Read more Timeline 60BC – 138AD This timeline is focussed on the British Celtic culture and those cultures which had influence on the British Celts. It Read more Cartimandua Yorkshire, and much of northern Britain was also …

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