DATE(s) | TIME | LOCATION | ACTIVITY | DETAILS | CONTACT |
19-03-2024 | 10:15 am to leave at 10:30 am | Marske - the start point will now be the small car park by the bridge and river in Marske, at the junction below the church at grid ref 104004. | Guided Walk to Applegarth Fort from Marske. Leaders Jane Harrison and Rod Flint | The walk is Marske to a Romano-British enclosed settlement north east of East Applegarth at Whitcliffe Scar. The site is reported to be that of an agricultural settlement which has been identified from surface finds of pottery to have been occupied from the Iron Age into the late Romano-British period. This will be a circular walk of about 5 mile, and some sections will be muddy and rough. Do bring a packed lunch. | Anne Jowett at swaagwalks@gmail.com | 09-04-2024 | 7.30pm (new start time) | The Buck, Reeth | Talk | This will be the first of our face-to-face talks in 2024. Please note the new start time. Sheila Ickringill, one of our members, will be talking about the Point of Oxan, on Graemasay, which is one of Orkney's southern isles. We hope to run this as a hybrid meeting. There will also be an opportunity for members to have a meal before the meeting starts at 7.30pm. More details to follow. | jane@swaag.org | 13-04-2024 | To be confirmed | Sleights Pasture, Ribblehead | Visit to Sleights Pasture Monument Complex between Ingleton and Ribblehead | Visits to this monument Complex guided by Yvonne Luke from Ingleborough Archaeology Group
Full details to follow | Anne Jowett - swaagwalks@gmail.com | 14-05-2024 | 7.30pm | The Buck, Reeth | Talk | Dr Keith Thomas, chairman of Brewlab and one of our members, will talk on “Recreating Past Beverages. Bioarchaeology of Ancient Beers”. He has offered to bring some examples for us to sample! | jane@swaag.org | 18-05-2024 | 10:15 am to leave at 10:30 am | Braithwaite Hall, East Witton, | Guided walk from Braithwaite Hall, to Braithwaite Moor to visit earthworks known as East Witton Camp and Castle Steads Fort | Full details to be advised | Anne Jowett - swaagwalks@gmail.com | 09-06-2024 | 10:15 am to leave at 10:30 am | Thornton Rust Village Hall Car Park | Guided walk to Addleborough summit and surrounding area. Guide - Robbie Warriner | Visit to Addleborough summit and the Burial Cairn, looking at the rock art on the summit. Then visiting the settlements and cairns around the south flanks of Addleborough.
This walk is challenging, steep ascent to Addleborough summit.
Bring you lunch | Anne Jowett - swaagwalks@gmail.com | 11-06-2024 | 7.30pm | The Buck, Reeth | Talk | This will be a 'hands-on' session when Ric Carter, a SWAAG member, will talk about lithics (worked stone artefacts). He will be bringing examples for us to look at. If anyone has lithic finds of their own they are welcome to bring them along too. | jane@swaag.org | 06-07-2024 | 1:15 am for 1:30 am | The Rukin Car Park, Keld - £2 /day fee is payable | Flower Walk - lead by Sue Knight | This short walk, of approx. 2 hours is on a good track and will progress slowly to allow people to appreciate/identify the plants in the area. We will encounter flowering plants, mosses and lichens. Please bring a hand lens if possible. | Anne Jowett @ swaagwalks@gmail.com | 09-07-2024 | 7.30pm | The Buck, Reeth | Talk | SWAAG member Les Knight will talk about the "1927 Richmond Total Eclipse: the largest mass movement of people in British history". | | 14-08-2024 | | | No meeting | As usual we do not plan to have a meeting in August. | | 10-09-2024 | 7.30 | The Buck, Reeth | Talk | Dr Richard Smith is the Editor of the Northern Mine Research Society's journal, British Mining. He is particularly interested in medieval smelting. This evening his talk is on Arthur Raistrick's contribution to mining history. Dr Raistrick (1896-1991) was a polymath; geologist, archaeologist, academic and writer. A scholar in many fields, he published some 330 articles, books, pamphlets and scholarly treatises. Later in life he was a pioneer of industrial archaeology, making a particularly significant contribution to the understanding of the development of lead mining in the Pennines. His two books on mining and smelting in Swaledale and Wensleydale, published 50 years ago, still provide a useful introduction to the industrial heritage of this region. | | 21-09-2024 | 10:15 am for 10:30 am | The Rukin Car Park, Keld. £2 / day fee is payable | Geology Walk lead by Les Knight | This walk will be on good tracks and is of approx 2miles, locally steep. Needs a packed lunch . The walk will include a discussion of some of the glacial features around Keld and the geology exposed in the Kisdon Gorge. The mines and their history around Crackpot Hall and the Swinnergill smelt mill will be discussed.
| Anne Jowett - swaagwalks@gmail.com | 08-10-2024 | 7.30pm | The Buck, Reeth | AGM and Talk | The SWAAG AGM will be followed by a talk. Details to be confirmed shortly. This will be our last evening face-to-face meeting of 2024. In November we will return to Zoom. | | 12-11-2024 | 7.30pm | Zoom | Talk | Ian Earnshaw, a SWAAG member, will be giving a presentation about "East Yorkshire, Before and During the Dark Ages - Does anyone actually know who lived there?". This talk will be on Zoom only. | | 10-12-2024 | | | | We are looking into having a lunch time social event sometime in December (not necessarily on the 10th). The date and the venue have yet to be confirmed. | |