Thomas Boynton (antiquarian)

Thomas Boynton FSA FSA Scot (d.1919) was a British antiquarian from Bridlington.[1]

Thomas Boynton

FSA FSA Scot
Died1919
OccupationAntiquarian

Biography

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
  • 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
  1. Collier, C. V. (1920). "In Memoriam: Thomas Boynton FSA". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. 25.
  2. 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.
  3. Stead, I. (1979). Arras Culture. Yorkshire Philosophical Society. p. 17.
  4. "Report of the Council for 1919". Annual Report of Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 1920. p. ix–x.
  5. "Council". Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal. 21.
  6. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Hundred and Fortieth Session, 1919–1920. 1919. p. 4.
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