'stone Was The One Crop That Never Failed'

In And , Akmlong Gas Pipeline Was Excavated Across The Pennines, From Pannal In North Yorkshire, To Nether Kellet In Lancashire nw EnglandAround Twenty Archaeological Excavations Were Undertaken To Mitigate The Impact Of The Construction Of The Pipeline On The Archaeology Of The Route, And These Form The Subject Of This VolumeThe Excavated Remains Were Generally Slight And Were Widely Scattered Along The Route, The Range Of Periods They Represent Is Equally Broad And IntermittentThe Earliest Recorded Evidence Was AMesolithic Flint Scatter From RibblesdaleBronze Age Activity Was Represented By Ringworks, Burnt Mounds And Rock Art, With An Apparent Concentration On The Craven Lowlands During This PeriodThe Prehistoric Remains Seem To Reveal ALow And Shifting Population, More Concerned With Monumentality And Remembering Than With Settlement And Land DivisionVery Few Traces Of Activity Attributable To The st Millennium Bc Were EncounteredRomanobritish Remains Were Surprisingly Sparse Considering The Military Infrastructure And Transport Network Inserted Into The Region At This TimeThe Pattern Of Slight And Transient Landuse With Low Levels Of Material Culture, Established In Prehistory, Appears To Have Been An Enduring Characteristic Of The AreaThe Excavations Along The Pannal To Nether Kellet Pipeline Have Undoubtedly Helped To Characterise The Archaeological Resource Of The Pennine River Valleys Through Which It Passed, And Have Refined The Understanding Of The Distribution And Chronology Of Various Activities And Site Types Across ARange Of Time PeriodsSome Questions Have Been Answered, And Many New Ones FramedThese Sites Now Exist As AComparator For Future Work, Both In The Local Area And Nationally.
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