dr liam herringshaw: [email protected]@hotmail.com york: a rocky history
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“[C]ompared with other Roman sites…it has one major disadvantage, [that] there is no suitable source of building stone
for at least 15 km in every direction”
Building York
Gaunt &Buckland(2002)
Building The City
Carboniferous:
York Stone &
Millstone Grit
Wikimedia Commons
© British Geological Survey
© Matthew Hatton, Geograph
Rock StarsDr Martin Lister
(1639-1712)
(York: 1670-1683)
Fossil shells
(1678)
Geological mapping
(1683)
http://www.ypsyork.org
Schools of Rock
The York Courant, Dec. 1822
Leeds, Sheffield, Hull societies:“Do not these useful institutions…convey a severe reproof to the tardiness of our own
city? Whilst York can boast her…Associations for Fashionable Amusements, she presents none of the characteristics of an enlightened
and scientific people.”
Rock Stars
1821: Bones found
in Kirkdale Cave
1822: Buckland enters a hyaena den
William Buckland & the YPS
Built from bones: the YPS
‘to elucidate the Geology of Yorkshire’
William Vernon Harcourt
(1789-1871)
Cleric chemist
1st YPS President (1822)
http://www.ypsyork.org
Smith & Nephew
1825: Keeper of Geology;
1829: Geology of Yorkshire
John Phillips (1800-1874)
1830: Yorkshire Museum opens
Anne Phillips (1803-1862)
A Trowelblazerhttp://trowelblazers.com/anne-phillips/
“Through many years your counsel has been my guide & Your gentle & true affection my reward” (Letter from John to Anne)
New Adventures In Rock
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