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St Giles medieval hospital, post-medieval farmstead and Iron Age occupation site is an ancient monument located immediately north of St Giles Farm in Yorkshire. The site encompasses evidence of occupation spanning from the Iron Age through to the post-medieval period, with particular archaeological significance relating to its medieval hospital phase. The monument preserves earthwork remains and subsurface deposits that document the transition from Iron Age settlement to later medieval religious or charitable use, and subsequently to post-medieval agricultural activity. This palimpsest of occupation provides valuable evidence for settlement continuity and land use change across multiple periods in the Yorkshire landscape.
St Giles medieval hospital, post-medieval farmstead and Iron Age occupation site immediately north of St Giles Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021210. View the official record →
St Giles medieval hospital, post-medieval farmstead and Iron Age occupation site is an ancient monument located immediately north of St Giles Farm in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021210.
St Giles medieval hospital, post-medieval farmstead and Iron Age occupation site immediately north of St Giles Farm is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1021210.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cataractonium Roman forts and town (1.4 km), Easby Abbey Premonstratensian monastery: monastic precinct, cultivation terraces, water-management features and ancillary buildings (2.5 km), Section of the Scots Dyke linear boundary 225m south of St Martin's Priory (3.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of St Giles medieval hospital, post-medieval farmstead and Iron Age occupation site immediately north of St Giles Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
St Giles medieval hospital, post-medieval farmstead and Iron Age occupation site immediately north of St Giles Farm stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.