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 On Sunday 12th June 2011, 27 PLACE members and friends visited the Ripon area. In the morning we were shown around the Ripon Workhouse Museum and garden, which gave us a fascinating insight into conditions for the poor in Victorian England. In the afternoon, we had a guided tour of Markenfield Hall, a fourteenth century moated . . . → Read More: Visit to Ripon Workhouse Museum and Markenfield Hall  Cawthorn Roman Camps On 17 May, 22 participants in the short course, Introduction to Archaeology, made a field visit to Cawthorn Camps and Blansby Park, led by Andrew (Bone) Jones. The Roman site at Cawthorn has been known for a long time and was excavated in the 1920s by Ian Richmond. There are four massive enclosures, . . . → Read More: Fieldtrip to Cawthorn Camps and Blansby Park  On 10th May we were privileged to have a guided tour of the excavations for the new University of York site at Heslington East, led by Steve Roskams of the Dept. of Archaeology at the University. Work on the site began 7 years ago with a desktop study, followed by field walking, geophysical studies and 35 . . . → Read More: Visit to Heslington East  Fourteen PLACE members and friends enjoyed a splendid afternoon in Millington Wood on Saturday 7th May, led by local naturalist Roy Crossley. A report will appear in the next PLACE newsletter. Meanwhile, here are some pictures of the trip. The group looking at the woodland Roy showing the difference between male and female flowers of dog's . . . → Read More: Visit to Millington Wood  Our last fieldtrip was a very enjoyable visit to Hackfall Woods, near Masham, led by Paul Mosley of the Woodland Trust. It included a fungus foray, led by Gordon Simpson. . . . → Read More: Visit to Hackfall Woods |
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