Uncleby

Hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Human settlement in England

Kirby Underdale

Unitary authority

East Riding of Yorkshire

Ceremonial county

East Riding of Yorkshire

Region

Yorkshire and the Humber

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54°01′18″N 0°45′44″W / 54.021748°N 0.762094°W / 54.021748; -0.762094

Uncleby is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Kirby Underdale. It is situated approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north of Pocklington.

History

Uncleby is the site of an Anglian cemetery. 76 inhumation burials were excavated by Canon William Greenwell in 1868. These graves date from the 7th and 8th centuries AD. The objects from these excavations are held in the Yorkshire Museum and the British Museum.^[1]

References

^ Abigail Hansen (2017). The Revival of Uncleby: An antiquarian excavation of an Anglian Cemetery (PDF) (Thesis). University of York. Retrieved 10 November 2021.