OneGuyFromBarlick

As you say Stanley, the paved footpath could have been part of the public park and this will be the problem with fieldwork here - sorting the ancient features from the modern landscaping. Plans of the park development would be a great asset as would resources such as tithe and survey maps. It certai...

Barlick Lake https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/10991/medium In a very early post within this forum I posted a LiDAR of Weets showing an area suitable for water collection. Exaggerating the contours in Google Earth it's possible to see how this might have worked. Damming acros...

OK Wendy - done it (at least I think I have).

Wendy - have had a look back but can't find a missing image - any idea what it was?

Hopefully you and Margaret will be digging again soon!

That's great Stanley - everything you note fits well with the notion of the enclosure having been respected by roads. Very interesting to hear that Philip Street was the line of a main route - was this the Back Lane on earlier maps? I agree that the Romans would not have ignored the natural resource...

ROMAN BARLICK Took adavantage of the strangely fine weather this afternoon and had a tramp around the old town looking for evidence on the ground for the first foundations of Barlick. I must say that the area between Church St and Chapel Street is a credit to the town - well kept, no shops boarded ...

Wendy -where the place-name cannot be assigned to an obvious root it is useful to look at the landscape it applies to. In this case Faugh is within a defined enclosure (see earlier post plans) and next to Gillians. It can be suggested, then, that we have either: OE 'feoh' meaning cattle or herd (imp...

Plaques - I agree that it can be difficult to distinguish some early carvings from relatively modern - such as the large head on Page 1 of the link which is classified as being of indeterminable date. However, the artefact you question (Page 1 of the link, not Page 2) cannot be confused with the exa...

Stanley - I'm sure you're right that a medieval castle would be recorded - the history of Barlick would have taken a different turn if such a high status centre were to have been located here. If the enclosure holds up then Hey Farm would have been within the western outer enclosure and could have b...

Good question Wendy. Ian is right - Barnsey is located alongside the ancient route running from Nappa to Kelbrook (along Heads Lane) and on to Ilkeley (it does not follow the Colne-Skipton old road). There are a number of equally fascinating possibilities for the name of Barnsey: The two farms are l...

Fascinating to hear that there is a Castle View on the edge of the enclosure. Castle is a reasonably common name describing a number of different enclosure types. The Castle-on-the-Nor site at Foulridge applies to a ditched sub-circular enclosure that may or may not have contained buildings. Castle ...

EUREKA I decided this morning to load the new (50cm) LiDAR data into my GIS programme (I've been working with 1m and 2m up to now) - I'm glad that I made the effort as the early settlement of Barnoldswick shows through loud and clear. The image shows the defended area of St. Mary's Mount and a serie...

Thanks to Panbiker for inserting the images. I did everything as usual - opened the image from gallery and copied image location then pasted but only the link appeared - I wondered if it was because I'd forgotten to resize to around 800 pixels? Stanley - you're right of course - Domesday is both inv...

Medieval Barnoldswick Although the Domesday Book Major was produced in 1086 it is fair to say that the information relating to land holding and land use reflects the earlier centuries when the Anglo-Saxons and Skandinavians settled the landscape. If a direct comparison were to be made between the o...

Bolton extracts: J. Clayton Lower and Central Barrowford http://www.Barrowfordpress.co.uk Almost directly across from the entrance gates to the old St. Thomas' church stood a cottage known as The Hubby (an old word meaning small roadside farm). The Hubby gave its name to Hubby Causeway, the stretch ...

That's sorted then - it's the sewage works - local knowledge invaluable as always. I was interested in the feature as it lies next to the very early (Bronze Age?) trackway from Dotcliffe to Salterforth. This track was a major arterial route and ran from Ilkeley and Kildwick (via branches) to Lothers...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/10634/medium Can anyone tell me what the rectilinear feature in the image is at SD896449? Just off the main road past the ralway coming from Kelbrook. Nondiscript on LiDAR, defined by faint lines but the air image shows extended (wider) crop...

Good stuff - I was in trouble with Stanley last week for renaming the watercourses in Barlick and now I've done it again by reversing the Kelbrook waterflows! I haven't walked this area but now have a better idea of the landfall etc. Studying the LiDAR for this area of Kelbrook I'm becoming convince...

http://oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/gallery/image.php?album_id=249&image_id=10603 http://oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/gallery/image.php?album_id=249&image_id=10604 The Hare Hill ring cairn extracted from 50cm LiDAR imaging. It is apparent that Hare Hill was possibly a defensive settlement during the ...

Extremely useful natter yesterday Stanley - in the words of Laurel & Hardy " By putting our brains together we can forge a head (ahead)." There is a firm called Carro-Print in Earby who can scan and mount the A3 Bracewell map - they are open in the New Year so it would be great if I/we...

Thanks Wendy - I didn't know the actual image appeared within the post - thought it should just be a link.

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/10474/medium Image of Middle Bronze Age ditched farmstead settlement at Clough Head, Nelson. A short distance to the south of this is the lost village of Laughton and just to the east is the former manor house of Townhouse. This displays a c...

I agree that all this geographic information stuff sounds like waffle! Difficult to describe it otherwise really - I suppose that simply put the aim of digital geography in archaeology is to create your own accurate interactive maps of a particular area. On a wider scale geographers us this to map c...

Layering images at the most basic level is fine for raster data (image over spacial data such as a map). The LiDAR stuff, however, is geographic vector entry and manipulation into geographic information system software. This means that accurate landscape features can be transferred between images an...

My fault Stanley - I did not make this clear - the images are orientated N top, the long east-west double-headed arrow indicates the line of the Roman Road which is also the edge of the drumlin field. The N_S arrow from the box (global axis) is the glacial direction as can be seen from the orientati...