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Members surveying an interesting sheepfold at Langscar Gate as part of the animal husbandry project

Don't miss the Ingleton Overground-Underground Festival
28th May - 4th June
On Thursday 31st May Ingleborough Archaeology Group chairman
Dr David Johnson will be giving a talk on Mealbank Quarry and the Hoffmann Kiln followed by guided walks around the kiln on Saturday 2nd June. On Sunday 3rd June members will be giving short guided tours around the summit of Ingleborough. Click here for details

The first of our summer walks is on

Monday 21st May

Easgill - Prehistory Preserved

Join Jeff Price for a 3-4 mile moderate walk from Bull Pot to Easegill where we will look at ancient dwellings and enclosures. It's a pleasant walk mainly on rough paths with a steepish descent into Easegill itself.

Meet at 6.30pm at Bull Pot, Casterton (SD663 815).
To car share meet either at Ashfield Car Park, Settle at 5.45pm or at the Community Centre Car Park in Ingleton at 6.00pm.

Please dress appropriately - stout walking shoes and wet weather clothing!

Please click here to see a full list of our forthcoming talks & walks

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Would you be interested in helping with the Bill Mitchell Archive? Click here for details.

If you are interested in helping the Yorkshire Dales National Park to record historic features for their Historic Environment Record then click here for details.

The results of our survey of the north west flanks of Ingleborough can now be viewed on-line. Click here to see the spreadsheet, plans, photographs and members essays.

For an interim report of our 2011 excavation of an early medieval building in Ribblesdale click here. To read a short report by David Johnson to be published in the next edition of the Anglo Saxon periodical Withowinde click here.