WEST YORKSHIRE HERITAGE

New Carved Rock Archive:

Recently WYAAS were excited to accept the archive for

the Rombalds Moor Carved Rock Investigation project,

carried out by Pennine Prospects. The archives contains

up-to-date records of almost 500 carved rocks, including

photographs and condition surveys.

In order to help to continue to protect these internationally

important monuments we urge people to submit any

information regarding damage to the rocks via the Rock

Art Monitoring form now available on Pennine Prospects’

website (www.watershedlandscape.co.uk)

World War One Project:

We are currently working on enhancing our records of

WW1 military and civil sites across West Yorkshire. These

include the former airfield and hanger at Headley Hall,

Leeds, Barnbow Munitions Factory, and the many war

memorials erected across the county.

If you have any information or photographs of

archaeological features, or historic buildings known to be

associated with First World War activity in our region

please do contact us and let us know!

January, 2014

Newsletter No. 1

How to contact us:

Email:

wyher@wyjs.org.uk

Tel: 01924 306797

Website:

archaeology.wyjs.org.uk

Facebook:

/WestYorkshireHER

Heritage Gateway:

heritagegateway.org.uk

West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service

(Part of West Yorkshire Joint Services)

Badger Stone, Rombalds Moor

HER hits 13,000 record milestone! We have been doing a lot of enhancement of the Historic Environment Record

(HER) in recent years, and just before Christmas we were excited to add record

number 13,000 to our database!

Hopefully come Spring we will have finished adding all our paper historic

building records to the database and these will be fully accessible to our users

along with all our archaeology records and fieldwork report collection. If you

would like to consult any of our records you can do so either by contacting us at

the HER directly, or via the Heritage Gateway website online.

West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service

Registry of Deeds, Newstead Road,

Wakefield WF1 2DE

Digitising our Aerial

Photographic Collection

Castle Stead Ring (near Bingley) is a prehistoric circular

earthwork & as you can see the aerial photograph shows that

only half of the monument is still extant, the other half having

been ploughed out.

For the past four months our wonderful

volunteers have been helping us to begin

scanning and linking our aerial photographic

collection of archaeological sites to our

Geographic Information System (GIS).

This is a really useful project because it will allow

our Development Control Officers to quickly

assess the condition and survival of the

thousands of earthwork and cropmark features

located within West Yorkshire, and help them to

provide accurate advice and recommendations

on any relevant planning applications.