21-529: Wold Newton may refer to: Wold Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire , village in the Yorkshire Wolds, England Wold Newton, Lincolnshire , village in the Lincolnshire Wolds, England Wold Newton family , fictional creation of Philip José Farmer Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
42-476: A cemetery used over a long period of time, representing a stratified funerary sequence for the Late Neolithic. Roy Loveday has suggested, as did J. R. Mortimer, that in fact the many burials may represent instead a sacrifice to mark the death of a powerful figure, perhaps the individual found at the base of the original shaft grave. Mortimer's excavation technique, although good for the time, did not record
63-573: A first and second team. The children's author Christina Butler lived for many years in the western section of Wold Newton Hall. Between 1988 and 2005 she wrote thirteen books, including Stanley in the Dark and Archie the Ugly Dinosaur . To the south of the village, close to the Gypsy Race, stands a neolithic round barrow . It was excavated in 1894 by John Robert Mortimer . His team discovered that
84-574: Is a small Yorkshire Wolds village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire , England. It is situated approximately 9 miles (14 km) south of Scarborough and 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Bridlington . Wold Newton is located within the Great Wold Valley . The course of the Gypsey Race , a winterbourne chalk stream, passes through the south of the village. The village of Fordon
105-456: Is also part of the civil parish of Wold Newton. According to the 2011 UK census , Wold Newton parish had a population of 337, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 291. The parish church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building . Eight additional Grade II listed buildings include Wold Newton Hall, the former Wesleyan Chapel (now Wold Newton Community Centre), the Old Vicarage,
126-408: Is referred to as 'cranium J' and evidence of blunt force trauma as a cause of death on both sides of the skull has led to the suggestion that it represents a very rare case of human sacrifice for British Neolithic funerary monuments. Once the shaft grave had been back-filled, the bodies of two adults, accompanied by flint and antler tools, were laid in the hollow created by the settling of the fill of
147-582: The Anvil Arms Public House, and the Red telephone box on Wold Newton Green. Approximately two thirds of the village falls within the Wold Newton Conservation area . Wold Newton has a small, fully automated telephone exchange. Rather confusingly, this is referred to as the "Thwing Exchange". ( Thwing is a neighbouring village). Wold Newton Cricket Club have a ground off Laking Lane and field
168-471: The Old Norse word haugr . The monument consists of a mound, the base of which was 120 feet (37 m) in diameter. The top of the barrow was apparently truncated at some point in the past, leaving an almost-level platform some 47 feet (14 m) in diameter. On this was constructed a post mill of medieval type. The mound was 22 feet (7 m) high at the eastern end and 18 or 19 feet (5.8 m) (5 or 6 metres) high at
189-467: The adjacent Butt Lane. They are now Scheduled Ancient Monuments. In 2014 the metal detectorist David Blakely discovered a pottery container holding 1857 copper coins dating from the early 4th century AD. The container and coins were acquired by the Yorkshire Museum in 2016 and went on public display in 2017. Wold Newton is an Anglian name denoting a new farmstead. The land around Warrington
210-661: The body of science fiction literature known as the Wold Newton family by American author Philip José Farmer . From the mediaeval era until the 19th century, Wold Newton was part of Dickering Wapentake . Between 1894 and 1974, Wold Newton was a part of the Bridlington Rural District , in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Between 1974 and 1996, it was part of the Borough of North Wolds (later Borough of East Yorkshire ), in
231-463: The county of Humberside . Following the 1974 reforms to local government, the parish formed the northernmost tip of the new county of Humberside. The southern tip comprised the village of Wold Newton, Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire. Since 1996 Wold Newton is covered by the unitary East Riding of Yorkshire Council . Duggleby Howe Duggleby Howe (also known as Howe Hill, Duggleby) is one of
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#1732851426805252-436: The interpretation presented below. In the first phase of activity at Duggleby Howe a shaft grave was excavated and at the base of it was interred an adult male in a crouched position accompanied by a Towthorpe bowl , flint cores and flint flakes. Higher up in the fill of the shaft grave were interred an adult and an infant, both in a crouched position. At the feet of the adult was placed another adult's skull. The latter skull
273-526: The largest round barrows in Britain , located on the southern side of the Great Wold Valley in the district of Ryedale , and is one of four such monuments in this area, known collectively as the Great barrows of East Yorkshire . Duggleby Howe is believed on the basis of artefacts recovered to be of Late Neolithic date, but no radiocarbon dates are available. Howe as a place name is believed to have originated from
294-572: The monument had initially composed a large timber structure onto which several bodies had been laid along with pottery and flints. The Great Wold Valley was a site of considerable neolithic activity, also containing the barrows of Duggleby Howe and Willy Howe as well as the Rudston Monolith . The barrow has been a Scheduled Ancient Monument since 1962. Two bowl barrows are located to the west of Wold Newton Green. Both were used during mediaeval times as archery target butts, lending their name to
315-450: The shaft grave. To the east of the shaft grave was then cut a shallow grave in which was deposited another adult in a crouched position, accompanied by flint arrowheads, flint flakes, a bone pin, and various implements formed from boar tusk and beaver tooth. The primary round barrow, composed of "clayey or earthy matter", was erected next. In it were included the remains of four infants, three children, an adolescent, and an adult. The mound
336-490: The title Wold Newton . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wold_Newton&oldid=543613128 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wold Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire Wold Newton
357-475: The western end. The barrow lies within a roughly circular enclosure, approximately 370 metres in diameter, formed from interrupted ditches, and open to the south. To the east of the barrow, one within the enclosure and one outside, are two ring ditches , believed to be of Bronze Age date. Although the barrow itself was long known, it was not until 1979 that the existence of the enclosure was confirmed using aerial photographs taken by D. N. Riley. The barrow
378-401: Was completed with a layer of "small chalk grit" and a thinner layer of "Blue Kimmeridge clay". Subsequent to the construction of the primary mound, 53 cremations were inserted into the crest of it. None of the cremated remains were enclosed in vessels, but instead occurred in heaps 6-18 inches (15-45 centimetres) in diameter and 1-6 inches (2-15 centimetres) high. Because not all of the barrow
399-519: Was enclosed in 1776. The current channel of the Gypsy Race was defined at this time. On 13 December 1795 a meteorite crashed on the outskirts of the village, landing within metres of ploughman John Shipley. As a monument to this event, there is a brick column bearing the inscription below. The meteorite is now housed in the Natural History Museum in London. The event inspired the development of
420-460: Was excavated, Mortimer considered it possible that there were equally as many cremations preserved in the untouched part of the mound. The cremations were unaccompanied by artefacts except for three fragments of burnt bone pin. The barrow was subsequently enlarged by the addition of "roughly quarried chalk" to create the massive final mound. Later the mound was used as the emplacement for a post-mill . Kinnes and his colleagues see Duggleby Howe as
441-537: Was first excavated in either 1798 or 1799 by the Reverend Christopher Sykes, but of his excavation no records remain. Beginning on 21 July 1890 J. R. Mortimer , under the sponsorship of Sir Tatton Sykes , excavated "an area of 40 feet square over the centre of the barrow, and a portion of the east side" over a period of more than six weeks. This excavation was re-assessed by Ian Kinnes, Timothy Schadla-Hall, Paul Chadwick and Philip Dean in 1983 to produce
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