Yorkshire Collection (page 4)

Pit Pony pulling truck
Pit Pony pulling a truck with pit props

Coal miner at pit head

Coal miner collecting his lamp in the lamp room before going on his shift

Loading coal onto a conveyer

The Pit Deputy prepares for shot firing, stemming the charge in a Yorkshire coal mine

Gordale Scar in Yorkshire

Milk cans at farm gateway in Yorkshire

Glacial Erratic block of Silurian grit perched on the younger Carboniferous limestone at Norber near Austwick in Yorkshire

Newby Hall, 17th-18th century
Newby Hall in Yorkshire. The house was originally built by Sir Edmund Blackett MP, and has been remodelled and added onto several times, 17th-18th century

Mesolithic Microliths from Star Carr, Yorkshire, England. From the British Musems collection

A Roman multangular tower, 3rd century
A Roman multangular tower in York, England, 3rd century

Street in York
A street in York

Cast silver disc-brooch, possibly from York, which imitates a coin of the Emperor Valentinian. Currently at the York Museum

Cast lead-alloy disc brooch from New Market Street, York. The decoration is related to a brooch from the Beeston Tor Hoard

Viking pewter disc-brooch, 10th century
Viking cast pewter disc-brooch from York. It is decorated in the Jellinge style with a backwards-facing quadruped whose tongue extends and interlaces with its body and rear leg

Easby Abbey, Yorkshire, founded 1152
Easby Abbey, Yorkshire, in July. The abbey was founded in 1152 by Roald, Constable of Richmond Castle, and dissolved by Henry VIII

Viking period bone and ivory comb and case
Viking period bone and deer antler comb and case from the Viking settlement at York, currently in the Yorkshire Museum, York

Carved Jellinge style Viking grave-slab from York
Carved magnesian limestone Viking grave-slab from York made in the Jellinge style

Bone Viking Trewiddle-style trial-piece
A bone Viking trial-piece found at the Viking settlement at York. It has Trewiddle style decoration, and is currently in the Yorkshire Museum, York

Roman Multangular temple, 3rd century
Roman Multangular temple in York, 3rd century

Viking leather boot, 10th century
Viking leather boot from the Viking town of York, 10th century

Roman childs leather shoe found in a well, 4th century
Roman childs leather shoe with an openwork pattern of chisel cut triangles. Found in a Roman well at Skeldergate, York, 4th century

Roman leather sandal, which the Romans introduced to Britain
Roman leather sandal from York. Sandals were introduced to Britain by the Romans, mostly from legionnaires. Currently at York Archaeological Society Museum

Roman tombstone of a Smith, pictured with his tools
Roman tombstone of a Smith with hammer, tongs and anvil, from Dringhouses, York. In the collection of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society Museum, York

Roman bronze statuette of Vulcan found at Rainesse Farm, Catterick, Yorkshire. In the collection of the York Archaeological Museum

Roman Altar from York dedicated to mother goddesses
Roman Altar from Micklegate, York. The text reads To the African, Italian and Gallic mother goddesses, Marcus Minucius Andens, soldier of the 6th legion Victrix and Pilot of the 6th legion

Iron Age British Female Chariot Burial
A British Iron Age chariot burial at Arras Barrow cemetery in the Yorkshire Wolds. The skeleton of a woman of high rank c. 35-40 years old, with an iron mirror and harness trappings of bronze

Geological strata from Sheffield to Castleton, Yorkshire, England, 1815. From An Introduction to Geology by Robert Bakewell. (London, 1815)

The Factory Children, 1814. Artist: George Walker of Seacroft
The Factory Children, 1814. Boy and girl employees walk to work carrying the days food in baskets. In the background is a typical West Riding mill for wool or cotton

Interior of the Cloth Hall, Leeds, 1814. Artist: George Walker of Seacroft
Interior of the Cloth Hall, Leeds, 1814. This building was one of the great centres for the sale of woollen cloth. Merchants are bargaining over bolts/pieces of fabric

Women operatives tending power looms in a Yorkshire woollen mill, 1883

Wool merchant taking pieces of cloth to the Cloth Hall at Leeds for sale, 1814. These lengths of cloth were made by homeworkers

Lowkers - women who weeded corn, 1814. Artist: George Walker of Seacroft
Lowkers - women who weeded corn, 1814. From The Costume of Yorkshire by George Walker. (Leeds, 1814)

Interior of a Roman and medieval multangular tower in York, 3rd century
Interior of a multangular tower in York. The Roman part is lower, and has typical Roman brick courses in the stonework. The upper level is medieval, 3rd century

Romano-British pot in the form of a head, a style fashionable in the early 3rd century AD from Fishergate, York. Currently at the York Archaeological Society Museum

Romano-British pottery head from Micklegate, York. The hair is set in two rows of curls and remains of a head-dress above. Similar heads in metal have been found in Britain in religious contexts

Viking Jellinge-style Disc-Brooch
Viking Disc-Brooch from York, in the Jellinge Style

Anglo-Saxon square-headed brooch from a grave, 5th century
Anglo-Saxon square-headed brooch from an inhumation grave at Hornsea, east Yorkshire. Currently at the Yorkshire Archaeological Society Museum, York, 5th century

Anglo-Saxon glass necklace, 5th century
Anglo-Saxon necklace of mixed polychrome glass, plain glass and amber beads, from an inhumation grave at Hornsea, east Yorkshire

Sculpture of Moses from the Chapter House of St Marys Abbey, York. He carries the Law tablets and a staff around which twists the brazen serpent. His horns follow St. Jeromes mistranslation of Exodus

Silver pennies of William I (1028-1087), part of a hoard of 600 silver pennies deposited in Jubbergate, York. They would have purchased 2000 sheep at the time

An Anglo-Scandinavian Cross showing a warrior, c. 10th century
An Anglo-Scandinavian cross from Middleton Church, Yorkshire. It shows a Scandinavian warrior, laid out with weapons in a pagan viking burial, on the face of a Christian cross, c.10th century

Fragment of an Anglo-Scandinavian cross-shaft showing a warrior, c. 10th century
Fragment of an Anglo-Scandinavian cross-shaft from Middleton Church, Yorkshire. It shows a Scandinavian warrior, laid out with weapons in a pagan viking burial, on the face of a Christian cross

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