An Introduction to the Modern Military Archaeology of the North York Moors,
This meeting will be an online talk by Roger Thomas at 11am on Saturday 5 February to the Industrial History Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society.
The beauty and emptiness of the North York Moors is highly deceptive. Few people appreciate the area has any modern military history or archaeology. With the passage of time those with first-hand memories grow fewer by the day and knowledge is now passing into the domain of modern conflict archaeologists. The North York Moors were very much a militarized landscape in the Second World War, and to a lesser extent during the First World War, continuing to be so well into the early years of the Cold War. The demolition of the larger sites and the restoration of the landscape gives the impression that there is nothing much to find, but this couldn’t be further from the truth; evidence of anti-invasion defences, gun batteries, artillery and bombing ranges, campsites, anti-aircraft gun sites and depots, bombing decoys, radar and radio stations, etc. all lurk in the undergrowth waiting to be found, recorded, identified and interpreted.
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