Thanks are due most of all to the many landowners and landkeepers without whose permission and frequent assistance none of this work could have taken place. Thanks are also due to English Heritage for supporting this project from inception to conclusion and to the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund without which the project could never have been brought to fruition. A note should be made about the weather. This project has been a very ambitious undertaking and set within an exceptionally tight time scale; without the exceptionally dry and settled weather between the autumn of 2002 until the end of 2003 the vast amount of work undertaken by the field team would have been impossible, the early and rapid harvest during 2003, enabled easy access to all the fields surveyed without causing any conflict with the ongoing agricultural programme. The downside of the very dry weather was that it made excavation almost impossible and made the difficult augering work a great deal harder than it might otherwise have been.
Geoscan Research FM36 Fluxgate Gradiometer and Bartington Grad601 Dual Fluxgate Gradiometer
Leica GS500 Realtime Kinematic GPS, TPS1100 Total station
Hand Augers from Vanwalt
Handspring and Palm data loggers
G-Sys Geographic Data Management Software 3D GIS
Mapping Data from Getmapping.com, elevation data from NextMap Britain
North Yorkshire Sites and Monuments Record
Landscape Research Centre Archaeological Archives
National Monuments Record Air photo records, LRC Air Photo imagery and records, LRC/Durham University NERC muti-spectral imagery