Visit to Thwing and Rudston – Rose Ferraby

The Yorkshire Wolds are rich in archaeology, from prehistoric barrows to Roman villas. This focus of this trip will be the area around the Gypsy Race: Rudston (the Neolithic landscape including the monolith and cursus, and the Roman villa); Thwing (where Rose and Martin have studied the Iron Age-Roman transition of a ladder settlement) and sites en route. We will also slide down into the Vale of Pickering to look at the landscape around Yedingham (with a possible talk by Dominic Powlesland on his research there – tbc).