WEST YORKSHIRE HERITAGE

Go and explore West Yorkshire’s Heritage:

As summer is almost here why not get outside and explore some of your local historic environment?

West Yorkshire has a rich and varied archaeological heritage which ranges from Mesolithic flint scatters on the Pennine uplands to the industrial and later heritage of our town centres.

In order to help you find the best sites to visit we have created a series of site guides which are available to download from our website.

Why not take a look here, and take a step into the past? www.archaeology.wyjs.org.uk/wyjs-archaeology-sites-r.asp

Don’t Forget… A version of all West Yorkshire’s

HER’s records are available to be

searched online by the public.

Fancy knowing how many Roman fort

sites are in the Kirklees area? Then

go to www.heritagegateway.org.uk!

May, 2014

Newsletter No. 3

How to contact us:

Email: wyher@wyjs.org.uk

Telephone: 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)

West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service

Registry of Deeds, Newstead Road,

Wakefield WF1 2DE

Mapping WW1 Archaeology: The Council for British Archaeology, English Heritage and partners across

the UK have launched the Home Front Legacy project (running 2014 - 2018)

to help local communities identify and map the remains of the First World

War in Britain via an online toolkit and local guidance.

This local knowledge is presented on a UK-wide map of sites and projects,

helping us to better understand the legacy of the War on our landscape and

consciousness. The data is also submitted to the UK’s national and local

archaeological records (including West Yorkshire HER) to inform planning

decisions and help to safeguard First World War remains for generations to

come - For more information visit: www.homefrontlegacy.org.uk

(1) Sandal Castle, Wakefield; (2) Swastika Stone, Ilkley Moor; (3) Kirklees Priory, Clifton

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Heritage from the Air: It’s amazing all the archaeology you can miss by simply being on the

ground, and for many years archaeologists have realised this problem and

used aerial photography as an additional tool to try and make sense of

former historic landscapes.

To the left is a former cropmark site called Wattle Syke nr Collingham,

Leeds, which was subsequently excavated in c.1990 and revealed field

systems, a domestic settlement, & human burials dating from the Iron

Age/Roman period. This is just one of many aerial photographs that we

hold at West Yorkshire Historic Environment Record (HER), and that are

available to view, via appointment, by ringing us on 01924 306797.