Acknowledgements

We are extremely grateful to the Vale of Pickering Research Trust for their continued support and funding. We also thank the British Academy and the Universities of York and Manchester for funding the excavation, and the Department of Archaeology, University of York, for providing funding for this article. We are very grateful to John and Chris Coverdale for access to the land. We thank all the volunteers who helped in the field and in the laboratory, including removal of the block and data entry, and especially Jessica Cooney, Paul Crofts, Stormy Harrell, Becky Knight, Victoria Lloyd Adams, Katie Marsden, Jodie Ward and Jessica Yoward. We also thank Ben Gourley and Anthony Masington for help in setting up the block in the laboratory. Michael Bamforth is thanked for his valuable assistance in helping to clean and record the wood. NM is also grateful to Søren H. Andersen and Chris Meiklejohn for information on block lifting in Denmark.

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