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Total number of records: 2055

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives1656
Books and printed items395
Art items3
Objects1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
auction catalogs37
antiquities24
classical antiquities19
excavations (archaeology)9
romans9
archaeology8
walls, roman7
church plate7
prehistoric peoples6
fortification, roman6

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain59
Yorkshire (England)37
England35
Rome5
Egypt5
Yorkshire4
Greece4
Wales3
Leeds (England)3
York (England)3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sotheby & Co. (London, England)35
Yorkshire Archaeological Society16
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society15
Clay, Edith Margaret13
Farrer, William (1861-1924)13
Dodsworth, Roger (1585-1654)13
Clay, Charles Travis (1885-1978)13
Lancaster, William Thomas9
Collingwood, R G (1889-1943)6
Robin George6

Archive Collection

Stone heads index

1960s-1970s

Card index of approximately 1000 individual photographic recordings of stone heads, mainly from the West Riding of Yorkshire. Each recording generally consists of the event date (eg of finding or reco...

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PAPERS RELATING TO THE HALL FAMILY OF DUNNINGTON, LILLING AND LEVENTHORPE

[20th century]

Mainly extracts from registers and pedigrees etc; includes copy discharge and further mortgage on property of Joseph Fisher in Cumberworth, Soyland, Lighthazles, Lockwood, Almondbury and Crosland 1729...

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INCOMPLETE TRANSCRIPT OF THE REGISTER OF ARCHBISHOP [CARDINAL] WOLSEY BY A HAMILTON THOMPSON,

20th century

Original is at Borthwick Institute, York

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Archive Collection

PAPERS OF B W J KENT: PLANS AND ELEVATIONS OF AN UNIDENTIFIED BUILDING AT BECKWITHSHAW

20th century

Probably a conjectural reconstruction of Tatefield Hall

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ROMAN ANTIQUITIES SECTION: PLANS, SECTIONS, DRAWINGS AND NOTES RELATING TO EXCAVATION AT ALDBOROUGH

1934-1938

Relating to an excavation by J N L Myres and others

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