Category: Archaeological Periods

Castercliff Hill Fort

Filed under Bronze Age, Hill Fort, Iron Age, Vitrified Fort

This denuded hillfort is oval and encloses almost two acres. The defences comprise triple circuits of bank and ditch, with scarps representing outworks to the NE. The innermost bank is the slightest and may represent an earlier, univallate fort.

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.

Beverley Minster, Brigantes, Brigantia, Bronze Age, East Yorkshire, Hull, Humber, Iron Age, Medieval, Mesolithic, Paris, Parisi, Parisii, Yorkshire Wolds
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Eboracum, York

Filed under Fort, Roman

Eboracum was the Roman capital of Northern England

Eboracum, Fort, North Yorkshire, Roman, Town, York
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Devil’s Arrows

Filed under Bronze Age

This Bronze Age site comprises of three large standing stones, it is thought originally there were as many as five stones in this alignment. Being Bronze Age little is known about the origin of the Devil’s Arrows, the name reflecting a more recent myth. The monument is strongly linked with an alignment with several others covering a line of over 50 miles and heading north south through North Yorkshire.

Catterick Roman Fort

Filed under Fort, Roman

The Fort at Catterick. It has an unusual shape due to multiple fort plans being overlaid on it. Originally, it was a Roman fort, but a settlement soon sprang up outside the fort, which soon dominated the fort, and Catterick became one of the most important ‘Small towns’ in the north of Britain.

Catterick Roman Marching Camp

Filed under Brigantia England, Marching Camp, Roman

Discovered only recently by air survey and geophysics, this camp lies on the alluvial plain of the River Swale, on the south bank of the river just north-east of Catterick racecourse. The camp lies some 350m to the west of Dere Street.

Catterick Henge

Filed under Brigantia, Brigantia England, Britain, Bronze Age, Henge, Landscape feature, Neolithic

The henge at Catterick racecourse is an intriguing prehistoric site. Initially thought to be a Roman amphitheatre, it is now believed to be a henge, a type of Neolithic earthwork. Crop-mark mapping defined the henge, the 1990s rescue dig explained its mixed bank and cairn fabric, Roman-town excavations showed how much of it was levelled in antiquity, and the motorway programme set the site back into a much larger prehistoric landscape.

Castle Steads Hill Fort

Filed under Brigantia England, Hill Fort, Iron Age

Castle Steads is a Hill-Side Enclosure, seemingly built without worry of threat from the upper slopes of the hill it is built on.

Castle Dykes Roman Villa

Filed under Earthworks, Enclosure, Iron Age, Roman, Roman Villa

This earthwork was partially excavated in 1870, these revealed the foundations for a Roman villa of obvious opulence. It’s final Roman owners were believed to have suffered a grisly death as the villa burnt around them. It is likely that future excavations will reveal that the villa was built over of an earlier tribal centre. Probably replacing the shrine to the “Light Water” with a more Mediterranean alternative.

World Heritage

Filed under Anglo-saxon, Bronze Age, Dark Ages, Dark Ages Brigantia, Early Christian, Early Medieval, Georgian, Iron Age, Jacobite, Medieval, Medieval Brigantia, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Norman, Palaeolithic, Roman, Saxon, Stuart, Tudor

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.