23 Feb 2025 #ingleborough #clapham #austwick
2006: “There are no known Anglo Saxon settlements in the northwest.” That was being said less than 20 years ago. As a result of pioneering archaeological excavations by a number of local groups, that statement no longer carries any substance.

In this video we set out to try to locate an Anglo Saxon period farmstead settlement on the side of Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales. Setting off from the village of Clapham and passing Ingleborough Cave and the impressive Trow Gill on the way, we look at what has been discovered since 2008.

As well as the settlement at Clapham Bottoms, we review what was learnt from excavations at Crummack Dale, along with Brows Pasture and Souther Scales on the other side of the mountain.

With charcoal dating confirming these settlements as dating to the Anglo Saxon period, we are left with questions as to the ethnicity of the people who lived there and what happened to them next, once they abandoned these sites.

Dr. David Johnson’s lecture on the excavations and finds:
• New Light on ‘Anglo-Saxon’ settlement…

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