Cartwright Hall Archaeology Group Bulletins

In the 1950s, Bradford's Cartwright Hall Museum set up a small group of people into archaeology and local history and started their own little lithoprinted, corner-stapled mag, exploring the history and new finds of Yorkshire and beyond. Most of the material in their mag - which went on for more than a decade - described previously unknown sites, with hand-drawn maps and illustrations of stone circles, cup-and-rings, querns, burials, industrial remains, etc, etc. Getting hold of copies of these mags is bloody difficult. And locating some of the many photos and small reports of the many sites described in the magazine seems very difficult indeed. I recently asked local archaeo, Gavin Edwards, to help out in locating these forgotten images & reports and was looking forward to seeing lots of missing files, but the miserable bastard - in my opinion - was very unhelpful & denied access. However having recently come across extra editions of the Cartwright Hall Archaeology Group Bulletins, I'm selling some of them, from volume 1 upwards. Each edition is stapled, large A4-sized, comprising essays & news of archaeological finds mainly from the West Riding, Yorkshire. Each edition is between 5 and 11 pages in length. Here's a list of the first series, each one is £2.50 + £1 P&P (UK):

Volume 1, no.1 – July 1954 (A4 sized, 6 pages) –
Foreword – by John W. Taylor
Lynchets at Thackley
Aldborough Excursion
Soldier’s Trench Circle Restoration
Cottingley Woods Excursion
Place-Names Origins
Some Roman Roads of West Yorkshire (part 1) – by F.M. Greaves

Volume 1, no.2 – 9 September, 1954 (A4 sized, 7 pages) –
Motor Coach Excursion to Iron Age and Roman Sites
Visit to Bradley Burial Mound
Hawkstone and Elm Wood Remains (Esholt & Hawksworth)
The Origin of Some Place-Names – by Wade Hustwick
Some Roman Roads of West Yorkshire (part 2) – by F.M. Greaves (Illus.)

Volume 1, no.3 – 16 October, 1954 (A4 sized, 6 pages) –
Excavation of Nab Wood Circle, Shipley
Roman Road at Morton
Museum Additions
Soldiers Trench
Some Roman Roads of West Yorkshire (part 3) – by F.M. Greaves

Volume 1, no.4 – 25 November, 1954 (A4 sized, 7 pages) –
Thackley Walls
Walls at Cottingley
Bishop Monkton and Ripon Excursion
Cup-and-Ring Boulder at Dobrudden, Baildon
Caerleon Roman Site Excavation (Monmouthshire)
Some Aspects of Danish Prehistory (part 1) – by J. Davies
Stone Mound at Queensbury, Bradford (Illus.)
‘Whuzzing’-Stick Holes – by F.M. Greaves
Glass ‘Flints’ (Illus.)

Volume 1, no.5 – 27 January, 1955 (A4 sized, 6 page) –
Medieval Crafts
‘Whuzzing’-Stick Holes
Roman Coin Finds: Bradford, Leeds & Steeton
More Querns: Idle, Bradford, Esholt, Otley, Shipley, Rawdon
Some Aspects of Danish Prehistory (part 2) – by J. Davies

Volume 1, no.6 – 17 March, 1955 (A4 sized, 5 pages) –
Some Aspects of Danish Prehistory (part 3) – by J. Davies
Malham Excavations
Roman Coin from Barkisland
Cup-and-Ring Rocks of the Ilkley District – by F.M. Greaves (Illus.)
Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
Flint Jigsaws
Baildon Green Cinerary Urn

Volume 1, no7. – 27 April, 1955 (A4 sized, 6 pages) –
Schoolboy’s Flint Find, Eldwick, Bingley
Wharfe Valley ‘Working Sites’
Cup-Marked Boulder in Calverley Woods (Illus.)
Flint Patination (Huddersfield)
Cup-and-Ring Boulders of Baildon Moor (Illus.)

Volume 1, no.8 – 9 June, 1955 (A4 sized, 6 pages) –
St. Ives Ramble (Bingley)
Kirkstall and Adel Moor Coach Excursion
Cup-Marked Milestones: Callander and Horsforth
Flint and Roman Coins Finds at Dewsbury
Ilkley Millstone Site Excavation (Illus.)
Cup-and-Ring Boulders of Baildon Moor (Illus.)

Volume 1, no.9 – 21 July, 1955 (A4 sized, 8 pages) –
Ancient Wall at Eldwick
Quern Photographs
Group’s Visit to Cottingley Woods
Roman Coins at Keighley Museum
Cup-and-Ring Boulders (Illus.)
Ancient Walls at St. Ives
Hope Hill Pottery, Baildon
Glovershaw Path Stone Circle, Baildon (Illus.)

Volume 1, no.10 – 1 September, 1955 (A4 sized, 8 pages) –
More Querns
Roman Road on Harden Moor
Mr Edward Roberts’ Quern Collection (Illus.)
Another Celtic Wall?
Roman Coin Hoard at Morton
Swastika Stone Replicas
Cup-Boulder at Shipley Old Hall (Illus.)
Roman Coins in the Craven Museum, Skipton
Baildon Moor Cup-and-Ring Boulders (Illus.)
Kex Ghyll Iron Age Village, Blubberhouses – by F.M. Greaves
Twenty-Four Urns (Witney, Oxfordshire)

Volume 1, no.11 – 13 October, 1955 (A4 sized, 8 pages) –
Druids Altar, Bingley
Flint Finds at Bolton
Colls Burial Mound Leaflet
Dog-Tooth Walling: An Economy in Land
Querns and a Mortar (Illus.)
Medieval Walls at Denholme Park – by Wade Hustwick (Illus.)
Cup-Marked Boulder at Faweather, Baildon (Illus.)
Roman Coins in the Olicana Museum, Ilkley
Holiday Archaeology
Flints by the Bucketful, Leeds

Volume 1, no.12 – 24 November, 1955 (A4 sized, 8 pages) –
Ancient Crosses
Hillcourt Boulder (rock art)
The Knotties Stone cup-and-ring, Otley Chevin (Illus.)
Querns at Bolton Abbey & Hawksworth (Illus.)
Stone Crusher Site at Ilkley )Illus.)
Roman Coins in the Leeds City Museum (part 1)
A Tour of Ancient Sites in Greece – by Lilian Smith

Volume 1, no.13 – 22 December, 1955 (A4 sized, 6 pages) –
Prehistoric Pottery at Keighley
Roman Coins in the Leeds City Museum (part 2)
Iron Age Wall at Shipley Glen (Illus.)
Devil’s Arrows, Boroughbridge (Illus.)
Another Cup-and-Ring Boulder (Illus.)
Silsden Bronze Age Axe (Illus.)
Bradford Grammar School Archaeological Society
Sandstone Crushers
Scandalous Digging on Baildon Moor – Sir Mortimer Wheeler

Volume 1, no.14 – 19 January, 1956 (A4 sized, 6 pages) –
Burial Mound Excavated on Baildon Moor
Spindle Whorl found near Otley (Illus.)
Shale Disc from Baildon Moor (Illus.)
Cup-Marked Boulder at Morton (Illus.)
Iron Age Wall Construction
Prehistoric Hut Circles on Hampsfell, Grange-over-Sands
The Baildon Barrow and its Environs (part 1) – by F.M. Greaves

Volume 1, no.15 – 8 March, 1956 (A4 sized, 5 pages) –
Flint Spearhead, Earby
Debate on Ancient Monuments
Ancient Wall near Greenhill Grange, Bingley (Illus.)
The Baildon Barrow and its Environs (part 2) – by F.M. Greaves

Volume 1, no.16 – 7 April, 1956 (A4 sized, 5 pages) –
Calverley Skeleton Mystery
Celtic Fields at Hawksworth (Illus.)
Bradford Grammar School Archaeological Society Report
The Baildon Barrow and its Environs (part 3) – by F.M. Greaves
‘Momentary Light on Ancient Relics’: A Lost Baildon Urn

Volume 1, no.17 – 3 May, 1956 (A4 sized, 5 pages) –
Baildon Moor Exhibits (Illus.)
Horsforth Cup-and-Ring Boulder

Volume 1, no.18 – I June, 1956 (A4 sized, 11 pages) –
Yeadon Gold Torc
Baildon Moor Rifle Range
Ribchester to York Roman Road at Otley (Illus.)
Ancient Wall near Hollins Hill Farm, Esholt (Illus.)
Schoolboys Flints and Quern Finds, Baildon (Illus.)
Harden Stone Circle
Index (to Volume 1)

Email me if you want to buy any copies (reduced postage for multiple issues) - megalithix@gmail.com

At some point in the near future we will put all of the Cartwright Hall material on-line and make it all completely free...perhaps giving all the material its own website. It's a bittova huge job though and I could do with a helping hand. If there's anyone out there who'd be into helping out with such a project, please get in touch. Members of Bradford Council or local historians & archaeologists who might wanna help with this should get in touch, so we can enable these magazines for the benefit of students, schools, plus to encourage the interests in the heritage of Bradford, Leeds and outlying towns and villages.