Costa Beck

Costa Beck is a small river near Pickering in North Yorkshire whose name also designates an important archaeological site. John Kirk excavated the Costa Beck site between 1925 and 1929, revealing an Iron Age and Romano-British lakeside settlement. The findings were published by Mary Kitson Clark in 1931 in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal as "Iron Age sites in the Vale of Pickering". The river's source is Keld Head Spring, 0.8 km west of Pickering, and its Scandinavian name means a river full of fish or life.