Brigante Forts, Viking markers & Churches - Stanwick 🇬🇧

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In historic Forcett (North Yorkshire England) I visit Forcett Hall , with a gatehouse, coaching area and Hall.
St John The Baptists Church (Stanwick) with re-used Anglo-saxon (& possibly Roman) stone with carvings of swords!Inside is a boundary marker for the edge of DaneLaw (the area the vikings ruled) showing someone being attacked by a wild beast/monster. Very unusal to find in a church!
Outside we find a stone tomb, open, with a drainhole, was this used for preparing bodies?
https://www.visitchurches.org.uk/visit/church-listing/st-john-stanwick.html

Between Forcett & Stanwick are remains of a Brigante fort - probably their centre of power before the Roman invasion, when they moved to Aldborough. The remains dominate the fields with 10ft+ high embankments still to be seen easily and rules what we now consider the north of England.
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stanwick-iron-age-fortifications/history/
Finally we visit St Cuthberts Church in Forcett & explore.
https://www.stanwickgroup.org.uk/

0:00 Forcett Hall
2:12 St John the Baptists Church
4:07 re-used carved stone
6:13 carved tombs
11:30 Viking boundary marker
13:32 sarcophagus?
15:08 BT Payphone
16:41 Brigante fortifications
21:11 St Cuthberts Church

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