Thomas Boynton (antiquarian) explained
Thomas Boynton (died 1919) was a British antiquarian from Bridlington.[1]
Biography
Until 1880 Boynton was a farmer. When drainage works ran through his farmland near Holderness in 1880, he identified and subsequently excavated a series of Prehistoric settlements. These discoveries were initially reported in several newspaper articles between 1883 and 1885.[2]
Boynton excavated the Iron Age cemetery site of Danes Graves, alongside William Greenwell and John Robert Mortimer, in 1897–1898.[3]
Boynton served as a Vice-President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and as Honorary Curator of Antiquities.[4] During his time as Honorary Curator he donated his collection of regional ceramics to the Yorkshire Museum and also acquired chariot wheels from the Arras Culture chariot-burial tradition for it. He served on the council of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society.[5] He was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1884,[6] and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1895.
Select publications
- Boynton, T. 1887. "On the Bronze Implements found in the East Riding of Yorkshire", Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society 9, 426-427 .
- Boynton, T. 1911. "Skipsea earthworks", Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal 21, 188-189.
Notes and References
- In Memoriam: Thomas Boynton FSA . Collier, C. V. . Yorkshire Archaeological Journal . 25 . 1920.
- Book: Archaeology from the wetlands. Recent perspectives. Proceedings of the 11th WARP conference, Edinburgh 2005 . The lake-dwellings in Holderness, East Yorkshire, revisited:a journey into antiquarian and contemporary wetland archaeology . Fletcher, William . Van de Noort, Robert . 2007 . Barber, J. . Clare, C. . Cressy, M. . Crone, A. . Hale, A. . Henderson, J. . Houseley, R. . Sands, R. . Sheridon, A. . Society of Antiquaries.
- Book: Stead, I. . 1979 . Arras Culture . Yorkshire Philosophical Society . 17.
- Book: Annual Report of Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society . Report of the Council for 1919 . 1920 . ix–x.
- Council . Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal . 21.
- Book: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Hundred and Fortieth Session, 1919–1920 . 1919 . 4.
