The Fire Over Fylingdales exhibition was officially opened last week at Whitby’s Pannett Park Museum.

It follows a £47,000 lottery grant that was awarded to the museum earlier this year to document the devastating moors’ fire on Fylingdales Moor.

The exhibition tells the story of the fire, the damage to the ecology, the wealth of archaeological remains revealed and the regeneration of the land.

The story ranges from the rock art of pre-history to World War Two military training.

A historic 5,000-year-old stone carved with a unique geometric pattern is one of the highlights of the exhibition, organised by Whitby Museum, landowner Sir Frederic Strickland-Constable, North York Moors National Park Authority, Manor of Fyling Court Leet and Blaise Vyner Consultancy, with support from English Heritage.

Launching the exhibition, Sir Frederic Strickland-Constable thanked everybody who made it possible.

He said: “I would like to express my thanks to everybody who has contributed to producing this exhibition. It has involved a huge number of people.

“This has taken about four months to put together and it is really impressive to see what has been achieved in that time.”

It was in September 2003 when a large part of Fylingdales Moor was ravaged by fire which took firefighters days to bring under control and destroyed surface vegetation, revealing more clearly than ever the extensive archaeology of the area.

The Fire Over Fylingdales exhibition runs until the end of September at the museum and can be seen daily, except Mondays, from 9.30am until 4pm.