| DATE(s) | TIME | LOCATION | ACTIVITY | DETAILS | CONTACT |
14-05-2024 | 7.30pm | The Buck, Reeth | Talk | Dr Keith Thomas, chairman of Brewlab and one of our members, will talk on “Recreating Past Beverages. Bioarchaeology of Ancient Beers”. He has offered to bring some examples for us to sample! | jane@swaag.org | 18-05-2024 | 10:15 am to leave at 10:30 am | Braithwaite Hall, East Witton, Parking in stable yard on the north side of the lane between Coverham and East Witton (OS Co-ords 118 859) not at the hall | Guided walk from Braithwaite Hall | Walk to encompass East Witton Camp (Iron Age Hill Fort or Citadel), Medieval Manorial or Monastic Grange landscape and Castle Steads (Fort or enclosed settlement). We can look at some of the lead mining between the road and the river Cover if there is an interest and time at the end of the walk.
Approx 4 miles. Steep ascents and descent, uneven ground
Bring your lunch
There is limited parking - please car share if possible
| Anne Jowett - swaagwalks@gmail.com | 08-06-2024 | 10:15 am to leave at 10:30 am | Thornton Rust - Car Park behind the cottages on southside of village (OS co-ord 973 888) | Guided walk to Addleborough summit and surrounding area. Guide - Robbie Warriner | Visit to Addleborough summit and the Burial Cairn, looking at the rock art on the summit. Study the ancient landscape - settlements, cairns and burnt mounds
This walk is challenging, steep ascent and descent to Addleborough summit. The area is peaty and wet, a walking pole maybe useful. Several Ladder stiles to negotiate
Approx 5 miles
Bring your lunch
| Anne Jowett - swaagwalks@gmail.com | 11-06-2024 | 7.30pm | The Buck, Reeth | Talk | This will be a 'hands-on' session when Ric Carter, a SWAAG member, will talk about lithics (worked stone artefacts). He will be bringing examples for us to look at. If anyone has lithic finds of their own they are welcome to bring them along too. | jane@swaag.org | 06-07-2024 | 1:15 am for 1:30 am | The Rukin Car Park, Keld - £2 /day fee is payable | Flower Walk - lead by Sue Knight | This short walk, of approx. 2 hours is on a good track and will progress slowly to allow people to appreciate/identify the plants in the area. We will encounter flowering plants, mosses and lichens. Please bring a hand lens if possible. | Anne Jowett @ swaagwalks@gmail.com | 09-07-2024 | 7.30pm | The Buck, Reeth | Talk | SWAAG member Les Knight will talk about the "1927 Richmond Total Eclipse: the largest mass movement of people in British history". | info@swaag.org | 14-08-2024 | | | No meeting | As usual we do not plan to have a meeting in August. | | 07-09-2024 | 9:45 am to leave at 10:00 am | Outside the Gift Shop on Reeth Green | What The Landscape Tells Us. A guided walk around Reeth and Grinton lead by Alan Mills | The history of a locality is embedded in the local landscape, from the obvious such as buildings and roads, to the more subtle such as old field boundaries, faint prehistoric features or perhaps obvious features which are just not recognised for what they are.
This short walk of around 2½ miles, taken at a leisurely pace, begins on Reeth Green then progresses to Grinton, along Swale Hall lane, the 'corpse way' and returns via the Swing Bridge (the diversion if still closed). On the way we will see evidence of a planned village, the outline of a Romano-British / Iron Age settlement, an earlier road system, a medieval settlement, two corn mills, a medieval bridge, prehistoric dykes, a Bronze-Age tumulus, a burnt mound, a tufa quarry and a medieval field system. All in 2-3 hours ! | Anne Jowett at swaagwalks@gmail.com | 10-09-2024 | 7.30 | The Buck, Reeth | Talk | Dr Richard Smith is the Editor of the Northern Mine Research Society's journal, British Mining. He is particularly interested in medieval smelting. This evening his talk is on Arthur Raistrick's contribution to mining history. Dr Raistrick (1896-1991) was a polymath; geologist, archaeologist, academic and writer. A scholar in many fields, he published some 330 articles, books, pamphlets and scholarly treatises. Later in life he was a pioneer of industrial archaeology, making a particularly significant contribution to the understanding of the development of lead mining in the Pennines. His two books on mining and smelting in Swaledale and Wensleydale, published 50 years ago, still provide a useful introduction to the industrial heritage of this region. | info@swaag.org | 21-09-2024 | 10:15 am for 10:30 am | The Rukin Car Park, Keld. £2 / day fee is payable | Geology Walk lead by Les Knight | This walk will be on good tracks and is of approx 2miles, locally steep. Needs a packed lunch . The walk will include a discussion of some of the glacial features around Keld and the geology exposed in the Kisdon Gorge. The mines and their history around Crackpot Hall and the Swinnergill smelt mill will be discussed.
| Anne Jowett - swaagwalks@gmail.com | 08-10-2024 | 7.30pm | The Buck, Reeth | AGM and Talk | The SWAAG AGM will be followed by a talk. Details to be confirmed shortly. This will be our last evening face-to-face meeting of 2024. In November we will return to Zoom. | info@swaag.org | 12-11-2024 | 7.30pm | Zoom | Talk | Ian Earnshaw, a SWAAG member, will be giving a presentation about "East Yorkshire, Before and During the Dark Ages - Does anyone actually know who lived there?". This talk will be on Zoom only. | info@swaag.org | 10-12-2024 | | | | We are looking into having a lunch time social event sometime in December (not necessarily on the 10th). The date and the venue have yet to be confirmed. | |