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The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age (2019)
Book
Halkon, P. (Ed.). (2019). The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age. Oxford: Oxbow Books

In 1817 a group of East Yorkshire gentry opened barrows in a large Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds at Arras, near Market Weighton, including a remarkable burial accompanied by a chariot with two horses, which became known as the King’s Barro... Read More about The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age.

Recent research on the Arras Culture in its landscape setting (2019)
Book Chapter
Halkon, P. (2019). Recent research on the Arras Culture in its landscape setting. In D. C. Cowley, M. Fernández-Götz, T. Romankiewicz, & H. Wendling (Eds.), Rural Settlement : relating buildings, landscape, and people in the European Iron Age (57-68). Leiden: Sidestone Press

Between 1815 and 1817 the Reverend William Stillingfleet, Barnard Clarkson and Dr Thomas Hull, with the aid of an unspecified number of workmen, undertook the excavation of a series of burial mounds at Arras Farm, near the East Yorkshire town of Mark... Read More about Recent research on the Arras Culture in its landscape setting.

Arras 200: revisiting Britain's most famous Iron Age cemetery (2019)
Journal Article
Halkon, P., Lyall, J., Deverell, J., Hunt, T., & Fernández-Götz, M. (2019). Arras 200: revisiting Britain's most famous Iron Age cemetery. Antiquity, 93(368), Article e11. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.28

In the bicentenary year of its excavation, remote sensing has revealed, for the first time, the full extent of this iconic type-site Iron Age cemetery and its landscape context in East Yorkshire. A total of 23ha was surveyed, revealing new insights c... Read More about Arras 200: revisiting Britain's most famous Iron Age cemetery.