William Lamplough

Background

William Lamplough was born in Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire in 1914.

Education

He graduated from Hull University with a degree in Physics. During the Second World War Lamplough was appointed Pilot Officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on July 11, 1939 and finished the war as a Flight Lieutenant.

Career

Between 1948 and 1961, Lamplough and Lidster excavated thirty-seven such barrows in the North York Moors. He and Lidster also led excavations for the Scarborough and District Archaeological Society in 1951 at the site of King Alfred"s Cave (Ebberston, North Yorkshire). Lamplough and Lister, along with William"s young son David excavated and recorded the remains of the barrows.

The finds and site archive were acquired by the Yorkshire Museum in October 2011.

Excavated sites included barrows at several sites. Broxa Forest

Four barrows excavated in summer 1949 at the Western edge of Broxa Forest.

Barrow 1 measuring 37 ft in diameter was 3 1/2 ft high and contained two cremations, flint knives and scrapers and a rare bone hook. Barrow 2 measuring 36 ft in diameter was 2 1/2 ft high and contained two cremations.

Barrow 3 measuring 44 ft in diameter was 3 1/2 ft high and contained one surviving cremation, having been part-excavated in the 1880s.

Broxa 4 mesuring 50 ft in diameter was 6 ft high had at least seven cremations associated. Suffield

Several barrows excavated in the 1950s

Kirkless

Excavated by Lamplough and Lidster with the Scarborough and District Archaeological Society in 1949. Large barrow north of Kirkless farm (near Burniston) 75 ft in diameter and 7 ft in height.

Number cremation was recovered but finds included a jet block and ceramic fragments.

Hackness

Several barrows excavated in 1949.

Membership

He was a member of the Scarborough and District Archaeological Society, through which he began excavating Bronze Age Barrows in the North York Moors.

Connections

Friend:

John Ronald Lidster