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SKIPSEA GRANGE, SKIPSEA, HOLDERNESSEAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.
REPORT ON AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVALUATION ANDAN ASSESSMENT OF THE RESULTS
Contents1INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................11.1Project Background...................................................................................11.2Geology and Topography..........................................................................11.3Archaeological and historical background..............................................21.4Previous Archaeological Work.................................................................62METHODS...........................................................................................................62.1Introduction................................................................................................6
Geophysics Survey (by GSB Prospection Limited)......................................7
2.2Aims and objectives...................................................................................7
Excavation....................................................................................................7
2.3Evaluation methods....................................................................................73RESULTS.............................................................................................................83.1Geophysical survey (by GSB Prospection Limited)................................8
South western field.......................................................................................8South eastern field........................................................................................9The northern field.........................................................................................9
3.2Excavation...................................................................................................9
Trench 1 (Figure 3)....................................................................................10Trench 2 (Figure 4)....................................................................................11Trench 3 (Figure 5)....................................................................................12Trench 4 (Figure 6)....................................................................................13Trench 5 (Figure 7)....................................................................................15Trench 6 (Figure 8)....................................................................................15Trench 7 (Figure 9)....................................................................................16 Trench 8 (Figure 1)....................................................................................16 Trench 9 (Figure 10)..................................................................................16 Trench 10 (Figure 11)................................................................................17
4FINDS.................................................................................................................184.1Introduction..............................................................................................184.2Pottery.......................................................................................................20
?Iron Age or Saxon....................................................................................20 Romano-British..........................................................................................21Saxo-Norman and Medieval.......................................................................21
4.3Post-medieval............................................................................................214.4Ceramic Building Material and Fired Clay...........................................214.5Worked Stone...........................................................................................224.6Slag............................................................................................................224.7Metalwork.................................................................................................22
Copper alloy...............................................................................................22
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