Thomas Boynton (antiquarian)
Thomas Boynton | |
|---|---|
| Died | 1919 |
| Occupation | Antiquarian |
Thomas Boynton FSA FSA Scot (d.1919) was a British antiquarian from Bridlington.[1]
Biography[edit]
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.[1] 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.[4] 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.[1]
Select publications[edit]
- 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 doi:10.1144/pygs.9.3.426.
- Boynton, T. 1911. "Skipsea earthworks", Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal 21, 188-189.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Collier, C. V. (1920). "In Memoriam: Thomas Boynton FSA". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. 25.
- ^ Fletcher, William; Van de Noort, Robert (2007). "The lake-dwellings in Holderness, East Yorkshire, revisited:a journey into antiquarian and contemporary wetland archaeology". In Barber, J.; Clare, C.; Cressy, M.; Crone, A.; Hale, A.; Henderson, J.; Houseley, R.; Sands, R.; Sheridon, A. (eds.). Archaeology from the wetlands. Recent perspectives. Proceedings of the 11th WARP conference, Edinburgh 2005 (PDF). Society of Antiquaries.
- ^ Stead, I. (1979). Arras Culture. Yorkshire Philosophical Society. p. 17.
- ^ a b "Report of the Council for 1919". Annual Report of Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 1920. p. ix–x.
- ^ "Council". Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal. 21.
- ^ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Hundred and Fortieth Session, 1919–1920. 1919. p. 4.