Swaledale and Arkengarthdale Archaeology Group SWAAG Honorary President:
Tim Laurie FSA
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SWAAG is a group of enthusiasts in the northernmost Yorkshire dales who are contributing to the knowledge base of the history of our dales through archaeological and related activity.

SWAAG, affiliated with the Swaledale Museum, began work in July 2009 under the guidance and supervision of Tim Laurie FSA, the leading expert on prehistoric landscapes in the area.

Our work programme covers a wide range of activities: desk-top research on documents, Google Earth, aerial and site photographs; site surveying, mapping and drawing; linking geology to historic land use; recording ancient and relict vegetation and trees; field-walking; excavation; recording and analysis of finds and publishing reports.

Our first survey focused on a group of previously unrecorded Iron Age/Romano-British settlements in Swaledale. We have surveyed two other multi-period sites and commissioned a geophysical survey on the spectacular site of Maiden Castle. We plan over time to study a wide range of sites from prehistoric through Romano-British to medieval and lead mining. Please explore the website for our archaeological report, Tim Laurie’s publications, photographs and records of wonderful trees and fungi, and general Historic Environment Records.

SWAAG welcomes new members. Please see the membership form on the website. Our walks and meetings are open to all, so please come along to see if you would like to join us.

Remember, if you are interested in research, surveying, mapping and drawing, excavation, finds analysis, botany, geology or just walking beautiful countryside year-round, please contact us using the contact page.

Peter

 

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19/01/12 Landscape Surveying using Handheld GPS Receivers now available on Lulu.

04/01/12 The Stockdale Fault John's latest geology web page

23/12/11 Neddy Dick and his Lithophone

20/12/11 Cogden Hall Magnetometry Images

10/12/11 Swaledale Geology Pages are now being developed by John Russell.

28/11/11 SWAAG Daggerstones Report  is now available as a full colour printed version.

17/11/11 Five Tree sketches and one watercolour added to Jocelyn's Artwork pages.

11/11/11 Tim Laurie's Swaledale Woodland Project

10/10/11 Swaledale Project pages updated

05/10/11 Discovery Archaeology News

15/09/11 Search the Swaledale Museum Document Archive database.

08/09/11 How to plot GPS data onto /09/11 How to plot GPS data onto OS 1:10,000 maps and Google Earth have been added.

07/09/11 SWAAG Daggerstones Report published

01/09/11 SWAAG website now receiving feedback from as far away as New Zealand. See SWAAG Record 198

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Below is the most recent record saved to the SWAAG database.

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 SWAAG ID 439
 Date Entered 26/01/2012
 Recorded by Tim Laurie
 Category Ring Cairns
 Record Type Archaeology
 SWAAG Site Preston Moor
 Site Access Public Footpath
 Record Date 06/08/2005
 Location Preston Scar. Scarth Nick.
 Civil Parish Not known
 Brit. National Grid Hidden
 Altitude 320m
 Geology Main Limestone. Remnant of quarried Scar.
 Record Name Ring Cairn at Scarth Nick.
 Record Description Ring cairn some 18m diameter overall, located at top edge of Limestone cliff. Wide views to south and west. Field banks also a remnant of a field system nearby. This is a classic example of a ring cairn, consisting of a 3m wide (approx) stone dump circular bank enclosing a clear area, and is undisturbed except for a shallow pit recently excavated at the centre. Unsurveyed.
 Additional Notes This Ring Cairn or Enclosed Cremation Cemetary could be regarded as a type site for the rather numerous ring cairns in Wensleydale and should be respected as one of the very few unexcavated and undisturbed example of a very significant class of Bronze Age Funerary Monument.
 Image 1 ID 2152         Click image to enlarge
 Image 1 Description The ring cairn, view southward to Penhill.
 Image 2 ID 2153         Click image to enlarge
 Image 2 Description The ring cairn
 Image 3 ID 2154         Click image to enlarge
 Image 3 Description The ring cairn
 Image 4 ID 2155         Click image to enlarge
 Image 4 Description The ring cairn, view westward.


SWAAG: Calva Hill from the West Hagg pre-historic site, by Jocelyn Campbell
 


SWAAG's first archaeology walk with Tim Laurie. Photo: © Tim Laurie 2009
Heather or ling thatched  barn above Daggerstones, Healaugh.

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