Phase Two: 2003
Between 1994-1999 fieldwork was undertaken by Dr. Jan Harding, University of Newcastle. The project was funded by English Heritage, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, Mr. Robert Stavely of Lightwater Holdings, the British Academy, Robert Kiln Charitable Trust and the Prehistoric Society. In 2003 further funding was provided by English Heritage, from the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund. It has allowed the project to answer some of the questions posed by previous fieldwork, as well as increasing the public knowledge and understanding of the monument complex through media such as this website. A number of tasks have been completed as part of the project:
• the production of a Desk
top assessment of the monument complex
• the production of an Archaeological
Resource Guide for the complex and its landscape setting
• the production of a report on the Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology
of the Ure-Swale
Catchment
• the continuing development of this website, including a virtual
tour and fieldwork reports.
A programme of fieldwork was also completed in August 2003:
• topographic survey, geophysical
prospection and evaluative excavation of the round barrows at the complex
• geophysical prospection of the Central and the Southern Henges
• fieldwalking across another 80 hectares of the landscape
• total surface collection, geophysical prospection and test pit
evaluation of areas of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement
For more information please see the Project Design or contact us. The project is funded by English Heritage through the Aggregate Sustainability Levy Fund
