Re: Industrial/Fishing Archaeology in North Yorkshire

hrothgar_cyning@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: news:1149007733.119265.36240@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Peter Alaca wrote:
hrothgar_cyning@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Staithes is, incidentally, a fascinating
place that I can well recommend -- in the river there were (IIRC)
some Bronze-age timbers found relatively recently

2001. See e.g.
http://tinyurl.com/ozejb
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/3938
There is a reference to the Tees Archaeology
Newsletter No.2 April 2003, but I only could find
the latest issue (and some other interesting
things), but there seems to be no archive.
http://www.teesarchaeology.com//index.html

(Interesting is also that the treerings of the
timbers don'f fit any local chronology)

and there are some very impressive fossils...

But the pictures show nothing like the features you saw?
Looking at some of them it must not always be easy to
make out the difference between natural and man-made.

Not that I can see -- some are close by where this picture
<http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/jpg/2YS-ironledge.jpg> was taken but
aren't visible on it.

Yes, that is one I had in mind

I'd certainly agree on the difficulty in
discriminating between natural and man-made features in this type of
area, but the regularity of the features in question (I spotted
perhaps 10, widely spread) suggests the latter must surely be the
case. I've attempted, in lieu of a photo, to sketch one :-)
Apologies in advance for the poor draftsmanship -- see
<http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/temporary/staithes.gif>

No poor drawing at all
That certainly looks artificial. They must be localy known.
You made me curious.

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p.a.



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