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North Duffield History and Conservation Society

Page history last edited by Brian Elsey 8 years ago

 

North Duffield History and Conservation Society

 

North Duffield History and Conservation Society was formed to research the history of the village and to carry out conservation duties. In the 1980's the Society researched and produced a village history book entitled "Duck's Crossing" a reference to two signs erected in the village to warn motorists of ducks crossing the main road through the village to migrate from the village pond on The Green to a pond on private property. The book proved extremely popular to the extent that a number of reprints were necessary.

 

Searches at Northallerton Records Office have uncovered aerial photographs, and records are held at The Borthwick Institute and the Library of Hull University. There is still much research to be done that could form the basis of a more detailed follow-up to the current project.

 

Within the village environs there is the site of Knights Hospitallers Temple of the 11/12thC and the site of North Duffield Castle. The Castle is referred to, as is the village, in the Domesday Book of 1086 when it is thought to have been a wooden Castle. It was destroyed and later became a fortified manor house. This too, was demolished leaving only the moat and underground structures.. Both these sites are on land which are owned by a farmer who is reluctant to allow investigation.  The 'castle' site is presently partly covered by a farm building although some evidence of its former use can still be seen both in visible land features and from stone being unearthed from the site.

 

The Society has  been investigating the visibility of crop marks on the '25 foot drift'. We have all three soil types; sands and gravels, clays and silts and alluvium all in a discrete area with nearby crop marks of Romano0/British origin. The Survey will take the form of field-walking, geophysical survey and selected excavation. Four fields have been completed and  finds  catalogued and entered into a Database.

The local Primary School children have already been involved with field-walking and finds-washing

Archaeology North Duffield, the archaeology wing of the Society, was  awarded £27,500 in lottery funding for a three year North Duffield Historic Landscape Project in 2011. There were many elements to the Project: test-pitting in residents gardens, creation of an Education Pack based on the Iron Age ,reconstruction of an Iron Age roundhouse, targeted excavation over known crop marks and a final conference. We have also written a book of the whole Project ("North Duffield:Archaeology and the Local Community 2015" B. Elsey et al.) and a Reference Collection of ceramics, flint, glass, iron slag etc.

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Secretary of the Society is Joyce Baines-Holgate-  ndchs@talktalk.net  website http://www.ndchs.org.uk/ 

Chairman, John Ellwood, Treasurer Bob Wells and Archaeology Co-Ordinator-Brian Elsey

Anyone interested in joining the visit please get in touch.

Meeting are held from September too April excluding December at 7.30pm on third Tuesday of the month in the Village Hall, Back Lane, North Duffield. Visitors and new members welcome.

For programme and reports of all our activities visit our website www.ndchs.org.uk  

 

 

                                                 Local Primary School Children Doing Some Field-walking
 
                   

 

 

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