2009/05/17 by Stephen C. Harrison · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Archaeology #Prehistory #History #HERO #Ancient history #Art #Literature
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John Robert Mortimer (1825–1911) dominated archaeological activity in the East Riding of Yorkshire during the second half of the nineteenth century, devoting much of his adult life to the systematic and careful examination of large numbers of prehistoric barrows on the chalklands of the Yorkshire Wolds (Harrison 1996a). So thoroughly was this objective pursued that he was later able to write that it would not be possible ‘to make another collection from the barrows of this district … as they are practically exhausted’ (Mortimer 1898:141). He can, with justification, be described as the last of the great barrow-diggers.