A Tale of Two Collectors.

• VerfasserIn: Boughey, Keith,
• TeilnehmendeR: Sheridan, Alison.; Hunter, Fraser.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (143 pages)

Geoffrey Taylor and David Heys, over a 25 year period, amassed a huge amount of prehistoric material in flint, jet, stone, glass and metal, gathered mostly off the North York Moors. The present book aims to introduce the collections to the archaeological world and to give the reader a clear impression of their contents.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: The Geoffrey Taylor and David Heys Collections -- Figure 1.1: Geoffrey Vivian Taylor 1924-1997 -- Figure 1.2: David Heys b. 1937 -- Figure 1.3: Location of North York Moors, showing principal topographical regions across north-eastern England (after Manby et al. 2003, 3 figure 2) -- Figure 1.4: View of the Vale of Mowbray and Gormire Lake from Sutton Bank (looking west) -- Figure 1.5: North York Moors: South and West Region - Areas of principal interest 1-5 (red rectangles), Central Region - principal sites (either identified or estimated) indicated by X -- Figure 1.6: Western edge of North York Moors showing locations of principal prehistoric sites (© Crown Copyright Ordnance Survey. All rights reserved) -- Figure 1.7: 'Silver Hills tumulus', from W (line of Hesketh Dyke to right) -- Figure 1.8: 'Gallops tumulus' (from the south) -- Figure 1.9: Taylor's sketch map naming the fields at Dialstone Farm (Locations 10-29) (south-north left to right, distance approx. 3km) -- Figure 1.10: View of fields surrounding Dialstone Farm looking north along the Cleveland Way - 'Car Park Field' (Site 23) to the left -- Figure 1.11: 'Hut Field Bank' (Site 18) looking east from the south-west corner of 'Hut Field' (Site 20) viewed from Whitestone Cliff Edge (Radio mast indicates centre of Dialstone Farm just over the skyline) -- Figure 1.12: Locations 1-73 (Locations 29, 30, 63, 68 and Valley View Farm off-map) (© Crown Copyright Ordnance Survey. All rights reserved) -- Figure 1.13: Locations 74-114 (© Crown Copyright Ordnance Survey. All rights reserved) -- Figure 1.14: Locations 115-124 (© Crown Copyright Ordnance Survey. All rights reserved) -- Figure 1.15: Locations 125-126 (© Crown Copyright Ordnance Survey. All rights reserved).

Figure 1.16: Locations 127-141 (© Crown Copyright Ordnance Survey. All rights reserved) -- Figure 1.17: Locations 142-160 (©: Crown Copyright Ordnance Survey. All rights reserved) -- Figure 1.18: Drawings of lithics, Sheet 1 (arrowheads) (23: Car Park Field, Dialstone Farm) (Taylor) -- Figure 1.19: Drawings of lithics, Sheet G (Dialstone Farm) (Taylor) -- Figure 1.20: Diary 2, pp. 100-101 showing entries for 29th September and 6th October 1990 (note sketch maps indicating the locations and detailed drawings of each find) -- Figure 1.21: Diary 4, pp. 34-5 showing entry for 31st May 1994 -- Figure 1.22: Foliate knife/dagger (Heys collection: H787.1*) (Site 83#) -- Chapter 2: Databases and Identification -- Figure 2.1: Selection of microliths/microlith fragments from the Heys collection -- Figure 2.2: Selection of arrowheads from the Heys collection -- Figure 2.3: Selection (mostly knives) from the Heys collection -- Figure 2.4: Selection (axeheads and knives) from the Heys collection -- Figure 2.5: Selection from the Heys collection -- Figure 2.6: Selection from the Heys collection -- Figure 2.7: Selection from the Taylor collection (Taylor Database 2: Tray7) (Example of one of the twelve trays of artefacts in the Taylor collection) -- Figure 2.8: Selection from the Taylor collection (168: E of Cow Ridge, near Parci Gill, Bilsdale W Moor) -- Figure 2.9: Selection from the Taylor collection (20: Hut Field, Dialstone Farm) -- Figure 2.10: Polished Gp VI axehead (T2.7.17.1) (93-4: S of Cold Cam Farm) -- Figure 2.11: Selection from the Taylor collection (23: Car Park Field, Dialstone Farm) -- Figure 2.12: Selection from the Taylor collection (168: E of Cow Ridge, near Parci Gill, Bilsdale W Moor) -- Figure 2.13: Taylor collection (244: Round Hill, Blubberhouses Moor) (T18.32.1-18).

Figure 2.14: Selection from the Taylor and Heys collections (348: Langdale Pikes, Cumbria) -- Figure 2.15: (Left:) Lower Palaeolithic hand-axe (T18.97.1) (Wanstead Gravel Pit, July 1899) -- Figure 2.16: (Right: ) Lower Palaeolithic hand-axe and fragments (H886.1-6) (Barton-on-Sea, Hants.) -- Chapter 3: Featured Artefacts and Artefact Groups -- Figure 3.1: Discoidal knife (H598.1) (165: Arnsgill Ridge, Snilesworth Moor) -- Figure 3.2: Discoidal knife (T1.272.1) (91: White Barrow Field, Cold Cam Farm) -- Figure 3.3: Selection of discoidal knives from the Heys collection -- Figure 3.4: Discoidal knife (H363A.1) (41-62: Murton) -- Figure 3.5: Discoidal knife fragment (T6.280.6) (168: Cow Ridge N, Bilsdale W Moor) -- Figure 3.9: (Right) Discoidal knife 'from North Yorkshire' (Yorkshire Museum YORYM : 5039) (© YMT, CC BY-SA 4.0) -- Figure 3.10: Worked flake of Arran pitchstone (T2.10.18.2) (23: Car Park Field, Dialstone Farm) (© J.A. Sheridan) -- Figure 3.11: Distribution of Arran pitchstone across northern Britain (after Ballin 2015a) (© Creative Commons Licence, courtesy of T.B. Ballin) -- Figure 3.12: Haematite 'rubber' (T2.7.1.2) (23: Car Park Field, Dialstone Farm) two views -- Figure 3.13: Bronze axehead/axehead ingot (T2.7.2.1) (188: Bransdale Ridge, Bilsdale E Moor) (front and side views) (© R. Banens) -- Figure 3.14: Bronze axehead, Lockton (from Elgee 1930, plate X fig. 2) -- Figure 3.15: Roman silver denarius Maximinus I (AD 235-8) (T1.228A.1) (40: Silver Coin Field, Long Plain Farm) (image digitally enhanced by the author) -- Figure 3.16: Edward I silver penny (T3.5.1) (1: Field 4, High Paradise Farm) -- Figure 3.17: Edward I silver penny (London mint) (© Portable Antiquities Scheme CC BY 2.0) -- Figure 3.18: William III silver sixpence/love token (T2.4.3.3) (22: Car Park Field Bank, Dialstone Farm).

Figure 3.19: William III silver sixpence (© Portable Antiquities Scheme CC BY 2.0) -- Figure 3.20: Romano-British (?) plain glass bead (fragment) (H348.2) (41-62: Murton) -- Figure 3.21: Victorian? annular glass bead (T1.43.9) (20: Hut Field, Dialstone Farm) (© R. Banens) -- Figure 3.22: Romano-British glass bangle fragment (T1.247.2) (138: Beacon House Farm, Ampleforth) (© R. Banens) -- Figure 3.23: Extrapolated inner diameter (T1.247.2) (© R. Banens/K. Boughey) -- Figure 3.24: Romano-British glass bangle fragment (T2.10.16.3) (23: Car Park Field, Dialstone Farm) (© J.A. Sheridan) -- Figure 3.25: Extrapolated inner diameter (T2.10.16.3) (© J.A. Sheridan/K. Boughey) -- Figure 3.26: Romano-British glass bangle (York Museum Trust: YORYM : 2006. 2857) (© YMT, CC BY-SA 4.0) -- Figure 3.27: Romano-British glass bangle (York Museum Trust: YORYM : HG5) (© YMT, CC BY-SA 4.0) -- Figure 3.28: Romano-British glass bangle fragment (York Museum Trust: YORYM : 22.6193) (© YMT, CC BY-SA 4.0) -- Figure 3.29: Map showing the award of jet mining contracts on the North York Moors (Based on an original by Helen Muller -- reproduced courtesy of Rebecca Tucker, W. Hamond Museum of Whitby Jet) -- Figure 3.30: Fragment of possible 'monster bead' (T2.10.19.4): exterior surface and (right) fracture surface showing exposed perforation (23: Car Park Field, Dialstone Farm) (©: J.A. Sheridan) -- Figure 3.31: Fragment of possible 'monster bead' roughout (T1.95.7): exterior surface and (right) fracture surface showing exposed perforation (28: opposite Hut Field, Dialstone Farm) -- Figure 3.32: Belt slider fragment (T2.3.11.2) (23: Car Park Field, Dialstone Farm) (Photo © J.A. Sheridan -- drawing © M. O'Neil) -- Figure 3.33: V-perforated button (H12.2) (1-5: High Paradise) (Photos: © J.A. Sheridan -- drawing: © M. O'Neil).

Figure 3.34: V-perforated button (T3.B097.6) (41: Big Field N of crossroads, Murton) -- Figure 3.35: V-perforated button (H435.2) (87-92: Cold Cam Farm) (Photos: © J.A. Sheridan -- drawing: © M. O'Neil) -- Figure 3.36: Roughout for a low-domed V-perforated button (H672A.1) (10-29: Dialstone Farm). Note the 'starter' drill-hole marks on the underside (right) (© J.A. Sheridan) -- Figure 3.37: Broken roughout for small conical V-perforated button (T2.12.13.3) (23: Car Park Field, Dialstone Farm) (© J.A. Sheridan) -- Figure 3.38: Jet wristguard (T2.7.12.1) (20: Hut Field, Dialstone Farm) (Photos: © J.A. Sheridan -- drawing: © M. O'Neil) -- Figure 3.39: Cliffe wristguard -- note the remains of the V-perforation on the underside (Photos courtesy of Ann Woodward) -- Figure 3.40: Fragment of decorated trapezoidal V-perforated object (T2.7.13.2) (26: Jet Buckle field, Dialstone Farm) (Photos: © J.A. Sheridan -- drawing: © M. O' Neil) -- Figure 3.41: V-perforated cannel coal object, probably a belt fitting, from the Law, Dundee (After Sturrock 1880 -- reproduced with permission of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland) -- Figure 3.42: Photograph of the V-perforated object from The Law, Dundee, orientated at 90º to its probable orientation of use (From Clarke et al. 1985 -- © National Museums Scotland) -- Figure 3.43: Dialstone Farm and Dundee Law trapezoidal V-perforated objects compared with the Bush Barrow gold belt hook. Shown roughly to scale -- note that the orientation is at 90º to the probable orientation of use, as the hook would fasten in a horizon -- Figure 3.44: Fragment of possible belt ring (T2.12.20.5) (23: Car Park Field, Dialstone Farm) (Photo © J.A. Sheridan -- drawing © M. O'Neil).

Figure 3.45: Slender fusiform bead (T2.6.8.4) that could have been from an Early Bronze Age jet spacer-plate necklace (23: Car Park Field) (Photo: © J.A. Sheridan.