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MuseumsSite Name: Yorkshire Museum
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.589 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Museum
Nearest Town: York
Map Ref: SE599522
Latitude: 53.962423N  Longitude: 1.088513W
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 4.5

Yorkshire Museum
Yorkshire Museum submitted by DavidRaven : The carved stone residing in the grounds of the Yorkshire Museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Yorkshire (North)
A rather good cup and ring marked stone in its gardens.

"The museum's prehistoric collection ranges from the earliest man-made tools from half a million years ago, Bronze Age material from across Europe, to the Iron Age Arras chariot burials, discovered in the Yorkshire Wolds." The collection also includes Roman and medieval artefacts.

Note: Keep Iron Age gold torcs in Yorkshire, see comment.
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Yorkshire Museum submitted by rldixon : in to the light taken 25th nov 2010 (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yorkshire Museum submitted by rldixon : taken 25th Nov 2010 i tried to get the details square on and still keep some contrast in the photo (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yorkshire Museum submitted by rldixon : took a few into the light which i think shows the details a bit better taken 25th nov 2010 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yorkshire Museum submitted by rldixon : taken 25th nov 2010 the stone in a bit more detail (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yorkshire Museum submitted by rldixon : taken 25th nov 2010 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yorkshire Museum submitted by rldixon : taken 25th nov 2010 showing where the stone is in relation to the museum

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Yorkshire Museum submitted by rldixon : I has noticed this stone on the portal but never seen it it looks to be in a different position to how it looks in the other photos Taken 25th nov 2010

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Yorkshire Museum submitted by TimPrevett : The rock art in the Museum Gardens in York, 28/10/08 during the Illuminating York event. http://www.visityork.org/illuminatingyork/ (2 comments)

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Yorkshire Museum submitted by SolarMegalith : Yorkshire Museum gardens - cup-and-ring marks connected with a groove (photo taken on December 2013).

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Yorkshire Museum submitted by SolarMegalith : Cup-and-ring marks on a rectangular slab which lies in Yorkshire Museum gardens (photo taken on December 2013).

Yorkshire Museum
Yorkshire Museum submitted by TimPrevett : The rock art in the Museum Gardens in York, 28/10/08.

Yorkshire Museum
Yorkshire Museum submitted by DavidRaven : Thought to originate from the Whitby area some 60 miles distant, this stone was presented to the York Philosophical Society in 1895 by Canon Raines. (Thanks to Chris Collyer for this info!). This pic shows the stone in the grounds of the Museum.

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Review of After the Ice: Yorkshire’s Prehistoric People exhibition by Andy B on Monday, 27 February 2017
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Stories Shaped by Space - Star Carr in the Yorkshire Museum

Sophia Mirash writes: After the Ice: Yorkshire’s Prehistoric People exhibition is one of the featured displays at Yorkshire Museum, shedding light on the lifestyles of early Yorkshire landscapes. A particular focus of the exhibition is on the archaeological findings at Star Carr, a Mesolithic site found on a lakeside approximately five miles from Scarborough (Clark 1954, p.xvii). The following review will provide a critical evaluation of the displays of artefacts from Star Carr, focusing on its ability and limitations in creating effective communication to the Museum visitors.

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fund-raising for the Iron Age York torcs by bat400 on Tuesday, 20 March 2012
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The first Iron Age gold jewellery ever found in the north of England.



Not everyone believes that the streets of northern England are paved with gold, although I do. But can there be any dispute about our beautiful countryside, after the third discovery of an ancient hoard of precious metal within weeks?

Hot on the heels of the West Yorkshire, or Leeds, Hoard whose secure future at Leeds City Museum seems almost certain following a £171,310 appeal – see previous Northerner episodes here and then here - we now have a drive to raise £60,000 to keep two Iron Age torcs, or bracelets, in the Yorkshire Museum at York.

Like the Leeds jewellery, they were found by metal detectorists who promptly declared them to the authorities thus triggering Treasure Trove rules. These see the British Museum take temporary custody while a price is worked out for the local authority to raise before any find is offered for open sale. The money is divided between the finder and the landowner and the system seems to meeting its aim of offering a fair deal all round and preventing people keeping mum about discoveries.

The torcs' finders were Andrew Green and Shaun Scott, on separate occasions, but within metres of one another in the bed of a stream at Towton near Tadcaster.

Golden jewellery from the Iron Age is rarely found in the UK, whose inhabitants at the time – the millennium before Christ – did not have the means to afford much bling. In terms of surviving relics, most of have been found in Norfolk, the home of the relatively wealthy Iceni tribe whose presumed Royal treasure was unearthed at Snettisham. Newark in Nottinghamshire was the previous furthest north officially, although in my part of Leeds we do not buy that. There is a lot of written material about a golden torc found on Rawdon Billing (our local Matterhorn) in 1780 which was allegedly used by a local weaver to repair a broken section of his loom.

Rev. Dr. T.D. Whitaker's 'Leodis in Elmete' of 1816, for example, writes:

On the lofty ridge of Billing, which yet retains its British name, was found about the year 1780 a valuable relic of British Antiquity; this was a torque of pure and flexible gold, perfectly plain and consisting of two rods not quite cylindrical but growing thinner towards the extremities and twisted together. Its intrinsic value was £18.0.0 sterling. It was claimed by the Lord of the Manor.
Alas, it has not survived – although if any Northerner reader knows of its whereabouts, we will give you an amnesty and maybe Treasure Trove arrangements.

Meanwhile archaeologists in York are speculating that their torcs, which follow the same pattern of two pieces twisted together, suggest either trade between the Iceni and the Brigantes – Iron Age Yorkshire people – or its reverse: war and spoil. Whichever, Natalie McCaul, assistant curator of archaeology at the Yorkshire Museum, says:

These are stunning finds and have made archaeologists and historians think again about what life was like in Yorkshire 2,000 ago. It shows that there was serious wealth here before the Romans, something which until now we could only speculate about. We hope we can now raise the money needed to make sure they stay in Yorkshire. To help reach the £60,000 you can go and see them and donate there or click ww.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/Page/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?ArticleId=43here on how to give by post or online.



Thanks to coldrum for the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk.
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Re: Yorkshire Museum Rock Art by Anonymous on Monday, 25 June 2007
Shortly following taking these pictures, Dave and Marion unexpectedly bumped into me in the Jorvik Centre's shop! I was also going to head here, but ran out of time. Nice one Dave :o)
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