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The River Don valley, in which the settlement was situated, was a site given to limestone formations which lent themselves to early mining for building purposes. [5] The area in which Levitt Hagg is located was known as Conisbrough Cliffs and was composed of two quarries: Near Cliff, which had been exhausted by 1791; and "Far Cliff" which included the long-gone early industrial hamlet of ...
[1] [note 1] [2] Originally, the Cheswold was an arm of the River Don, the southernmost arm that flowed south and eastwards across the northern part of Doncaster. [3] It met the original course of the River Don in the Friendly Street/Low Fishergate area, although it is unsure whether or not the route was a natural part of the Don, or if it was ...
The first Doncaster Museum opened in 1909 at Beechfield House, utilising only the ground floor of the building, and operated a small zoo at the site from 1955. [2] It moved to a purpose-built site on Chequer Road in 1964 to display collections of natural history, archaeology, local history, fine and decorative art. [3]
Donald Reginald Brothwell, FRAI (1933 – 26 September 2016) was a British archaeologist, anthropologist and academic, who specialised in human palaeoecology and environmental archaeology.
Doncaster (/ ˈ d ɒ ŋ k ə s t ər,-k æ s-/ DONK-ə-stər, DONK-ast-ər) [3] [4] is a city in South Yorkshire, England. [5] Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the City of Doncaster metropolitan borough, and is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield.
Donald "Don" Henson FSA FHEA MCIfA (9 May 1956 - 11 April 2021 [1]) was a British archaeologist and prehistorian, specialising in public archaeology. [ 2 ] Biography
Timothy Darvill OBE FSA (22 December 1957 – 5 October 2024) was an English archaeologist and author, best known for his publications on prehistoric Britain and his excavations in England, Wales, and the Isle of Man.
The River Don (also called River Dun in some stretches) is a river in South Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.It rises in the Pennines, west of Dunford Bridge, and flows for 69 miles (111 km) eastwards, through the Don Valley, via Penistone, Sheffield, Rotherham, Mexborough, Conisbrough, Doncaster and Stainforth.