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Arras Culture,East Yorkshire

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  Posted by henvell (U1781664) on Monday, 27th November 2006

  The people of the Arras culture interred their important male and female leaders in square barrows [ca 425-100BCE],with dismantled 2 wheel chariots and occasionally with sacrific aniimals [ie;pigs].A similar type of burial was excavated near Edinburgh Scotland.These have affinities with the Hallstatt and La Tene warrior inhumations in central Europe.
  
  Has anyone researched the Arras culture?Are they immigrants from mainland Europe and/or native Parsi people?

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  Posted by TwinProbe (U4077936) on Monday, 27th November 2006

  Hi Henvell,
  
  A truly fascinating topic. British Iron Age burials are very uncommon indeed. The square barrows of the 'Arras Culture' people of East Yorkshire are a rare exception. They show up well on aerial photography looking not unlike square frog-spawn! Initially they were probably marked by a mound.
  
  As I'm sure you know only a small proportion of these barrows contain high status chariot burials; I believe that the total is nine. Several were found round Wetwang, E. Yorks. As well as the outlier from Newbridge near Edinburgh a recent discovery is the famous Ferrybridge chariot burial from near Castleford. Radiocarbon dates for some of the burials are 400-200 BC.
  
  I know that there has been an attempt to devise a dating scheme for the burials on the basis of comparing the style of the one piece fibula brooches that they contain with a type sequence of such brooches found at a cemetery at Munsingen just south of Berne in Switzerland, the most famous La Tene Iron Age cemetery in Europe. As I understand it the presumption is that the fashions in brooch styles changed rather than there being actual immigration of the Parisii from France to E. Yorks. Having said that I have heard that stable isotope studies of skeletal material from Ferrybridge is compatible with birth of the occupant in the French Alps, or Scandinavia!
  
  Elements of an 'Arras Culture' introduced into 5-4th C IA Britain from Continental Europe is still to be found in the writings of some archaeologists. But UK chariot burials are different from Continental burials in many respects: they are crouched burials and the chariots are dismantled. There are few actual imports in the graves.
  
  The clincher seems to be that study has indicated no apparent archaeological evidence of discontinuity in settlement, architecture, or agriculture in East Yorks from the late BA until the Roman IA. But clearly the qestion isn't settled yet.
  
  Best wishes,
  
  TP

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  Posted by Crystal Clear (U1010754) on Tuesday, 28th November 2006

  I am fascinated by this and currently researching it as part of my dissertation, although I am not looking for a different 'culture', just trying to paint a picture of warfare of the Iron Age period, away from the usual 'celtic' scene

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  Posted by henvell (U1781664) on Tuesday, 28th November 2006

  Mega thanks TK.If you happen across any relevant information on the topic in the future,could you please post it on this website.
  Bob

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  Posted by henvell (U1781664) on Tuesday, 28th November 2006

  Sorry TP-another senior moment.

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  Posted by TwinProbe (U4077936) on Tuesday, 28th November 2006

  Hi Henvell,
  
  Thanks, and don't mention it - happens to me all the time. Are you still interested in brochs by the way?
  
  Best wishes,
  
  TP

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  Posted by henvell (U1781664) on Wednesday, 29th November 2006

  Post the 2200-1800 BCE cold dry era the elite families of Europe frequently trained each others children.There was significant interaction between the Scandinavians and the Mycenaeans during this period.In addition to commercial trade,new weaponry and military tactics were exchanged.DNA analyses has revealed that during the cold era some Scandinavians settled in northern Greece.This would have created family links between the two regions.They trained each others warrior-merchants and provided bilateral commercial-military expertise.
  
  If the elite families of eastern Yorkshire and the western European mainland occasionally trained each others children,cross Channel cultural and social practices could have been introduced without significant people movement.This is compatible with the facts that TP supplied,but it is highly speculative.

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  Posted by priscilla (U1793779) on Wednesday, 29th November 2006

  All fascinating stuff, thank you. The site of the square graves - I have no map here to show exactly where they are. How far from the sea? Is it likely that the clan movement into Britain(East Yorks) was by sea?
  Regards P.

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