Medieval Skipwith & an Ancient Burial Landscape | Skipwith Common | North Yorkshire | March 2024

This video is something a little different. I am exploring one of my favourite local spots - an extensive reserve of lowland heath, littered with mounds burial mounds on the periphery of a later medieval village. This is one of most interesting ritual landscapes in the Vale of York. I wrote about it for an article in one of my self-published, church crawling zines, called Under Steeple and Tower (only digital copies now available - link below) and thought I would take the time to read that to you in the second half of this video. Though the reading has had big chunks taken out and some rambling sections cut down so it works better in video format.

Keep in mind that all of this footage was shot in March 2024, but that the reading is from my original article based on a walk I did in December 2022.

ZINES:
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LINKS TO OTHER YOUTUBE VIDEOS:
River Ouse walk (May 2023) -    • Danes Landing 1066 | River Ouse Walk | Ric...  

REFERENCES FOR THE SCRIPT IN THIS VIDEO:
A 2009 Archaeological Landscape Survey by Oxford Archaeology North is available to read online and another great source of information for the wider archaeological history of the Vale of York is a small booklet called Archaeology and Landscape in the Vale of York by Mark Whyman and Andy J Howard, published by York Archaeological Trust in 2005.

Skipwith St Helen (CRSBI) - https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=3531

MUSIC:
The Long Dark by Scott Buckley / scottbuckley
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Ruins in the Forest by Justin Allan Arnold | https://www.ifnessfreemusic.com
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