John Ronald Lidster

John Ronald Lidster
Born 1916
Hull
Died 2008 (aged 92)
Robin Hood's Bay
Nationality British
Occupation Artist, Archaeologist and Curator
Known for Rescue excavation of Bronze Age Barrows in Yorkshire and the excavation of the Roman kiln site at Cantley.

John Ronald "Ronnie" Lidster (1916-2008)[1] was a British artist, archaeologist and curator based in Yorkshire.

Biography

Lidster was born in Hull in 1916 and moved to Scarborough as child.[1] During the Second World War he was an artist with the Royal Army Medical College in London.[1] in 1946 he joined the Scarborough and District Archaeological Society where he met William Lamplough. Between 1948 and 1961, Lamplough and Lidster undertook rescue excavations of thirty-seven[1] barrows in the North York Moors;[2][3][4] the artefacts from which are now in the Yorkshire Museum.[5] Lidster created detailed paintings of the landscapes in which the barrows are situated.[6] He and William Lamplough also led excavations for the Scarborough and District Archaeological Society in 1951 at the site of King Alfred's Cave (Ebberston, North Yorkshire).[7][8]

Lidster acted as the first secretary of the recently founded Scarborough Geological Society in the 1950s

In 1950, Lidster worked as a technician and, later, as the Assistant Curator of the Wood End Museum in Scarborough.[1] In 1955 he moved to Doncaster Museum as Assistant Curator. He was later Keeper of the museum, a position he left in 1966–7.[1]

Cantley Kilns

Whilst working in Doncaster, in 1959, Lidster investigated the Roman kilns site at Cantley.[9] The diagrams produced by Lidster of the Cantley kilns were used in 1962 as the basis for an experimental archaeology project to reconstruct and fire a replica of Cantley Kiln 31.[10]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Boughey, K. 2013. "A Look at the Lamplough-Lidster Collection: The Excavation of Broxa Barrows 1-4", Prehistoric Yorkshire Vol. 50. pp33-53
  2. ↑ "PastScape Entry for Monument no.65659". English Heritage. 2007. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  3. ↑ "PastScape Entry for Monument no.65880". English Heritage. 2007. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  4. ↑ "PastScape Entry for Monument no.65763". English Heritage. 2007. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  5. ↑ Emily Johnson (2013-04-30). "The Lamplough-Lidster Collection". York Museums Trust. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
  6. ↑ A 1975 landscape portrait as part of the archive in the Yorkshire Museum is signed by J. R. Lidster
  7. ↑ "PastScape Entry for King Alfreds Cave". English Heritage. 2007. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  8. ↑ Lamplough, W.H. and Lidster, J. R. 1959. "The Excavation of King Alfrid's Cave, Ebberston", Transactions of the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society Vol 55. pp: 16-31
  9. ↑ "PastScape Entry for Monument no.65659". English Heritage. 2007. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  10. ↑ Mayes, P. 1962. "The Firing of a second pottery kiln of Romano-British Type at Boston, Linconshire" Archaeometry Vol 5. pp: 80–86

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