Abstract

Bolesford, North Riding of Yorkshire: a lost -wapentake centre and its landscape Vivien G. Swan, Bridgett E. A. jones and Damian Grady Wapentake centres, the meeting places of the historical and geographical context, through an administrative units of the Danelaw, and the assessment of documented history of the place­ assembly points of the hundred, their counterparts name, and a consideration of its archaeological in Saxon and later England, have been accorded relationships. The inception of this paper lies in relatively little archaeological study. In particular, documentary research by the Royal Commission on the initial reasons for their individual location, or the Historical Monuments of England on the historical their occasional change of location, have only background of the deserted medieval village of East rarely received detailed examination in their wider Lilling. This was initially carried out in conjunction landscape context, although it has been accepted with a field survey of the earthworks there by the for some time that many 'moot-stows' had more same organisation (Swan, Mackay &Jones 1990). In ancient associations. This study is an attempt to addition, between 1990 and 1992, a limited trace the probable origins, decline and early programme of aerial reconnaissance by the abandonment,