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Archaeology

Archaeology in and around Hickleton is rare for only two chances have arisen in the parish during the last few decades to undertake rescue archaeology and all field walking finds are scattered in many lists and locations. These pages bring together some of this information for the first time.

The first of the rescue digs was in 1983 at St. Wilfrid’s church before the complete underpinning of the whole building, that was suffering from mining subsidence, could disturb any or all archaeological layers.

The second rescue dig in 1992 investigated crop marks in the field near the parish boundary with Goldthorpe in front of constructing the Goldthorpe bypass, which was part of the Dearne Towns Link Road Scheme, linking the M1, Junction 36 with the A1(M) at Junction 37.

Field-walking and metal detecting had been undertaken in an ad hoc fashion across the parish and some of these finds are recorded in the Sites and Monuments Record in Sheffield, the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, with some material finding its way into the museum at Doncaster, much more is in private hands.