1733
Workers digging a well at Carlton, south-east Leeds, were startled to unearth a vast tomb some
8 foot underground.
Within were the bones of a tall man, "white as Ivory" and surmounted with a warrior's helmet.
Saxon characters scratched on the wall of the sepulchre recorded the date ; 992, seventy-four
years before the Norman conquest.
1790
A gang of workmen digging for clay in the George Street area of Leeds made a grisly discovery;
A cluster of fifty oak coffins, each containing mouldering human bones.
They were thought to date from a plaque outbreak of 1672, when some 1,400 people were
buried in the area.
1823
During the construct of a new road from Hunslet to Bell Isle, workers uncovered a stone coffin.
Levering off its heavy lid, they found thigh, leg and arm bones , all covered with plaster.
The plaster carried the imprint of the shrouded body that had long since rotted away, teeth and
glass beads were also found in the bottom of the coffin.
1849
The workers who disinterred a large Saxon coffin from the mud of Addle Mill Farm in Leeds must
have had high hopes of what lay within, Viking gold? A warriors loot? The coffin was certainly
impressive , 7 feet long and 2 feet wide.
They opened it up ---and found nothing except a small quantity of dark-looking mood.
1852
These were surely th strangest bones ever found in Leeds.
At Longley, near Wortely, workmen turned up a clutter of perculiar animal remains, they were not
from cows or horses.
No , explained an expert from Leeds Philosophical Society, they were from -Hippopotamus major,
the Great Northen Hippopotamus.
This mighty beast, very like a modern hippo but with a shaggy coat of hair, roamed the swamps
of what would later be Leeds in Pleistocene era-2.5 million years ago.
2016
Almost 2,000 years after being buried, the remarkable well-preserved remains of 150 skeletons
and their personal possessions have been discovered in a small market town at the foot of
The Yorkshire Wolds.
The skeletons are of people from the middle age 'Arras' culture in Pockington, East Yorkshire and are being hailed as one of the largest and most significant Iron Age findings of recent times.
Some of the 75 square barrows-burial chambers-contained personal possessions such as
jewellery and weapons.
An archaeologist has also discovered a skeleton with a shield,
It's believed th dates to the Iron Age, which in Britain lasted from 800 BC until the time of
the Roman conquest, which started in AD 43.
Bronze bracelet with coral decoration discovered at the site in Yorkshire.
The sound of ancient, old with age
that resonates with sight, touch and smell.
The mystery of what lived before,
good or bad that history could not change.
The thrill of finding something new,
never having been seen by human eyes
for hundreds if not thousands of years before
by them we knew nothing about again until.
With one sweep of the brush
it's like Haley's comet the build up of excitement
the inward hope that each time it comes
some thing known will be shown to be different.
People come, people go what they leave behind
their spirit unseen,
deeply felt it is shown by them
through archeology what they made, the warmth
off it that which was found by they
in the palms of your hands.