Details

The monument includes two Bronze Age bowl barrows, members of a group of
similar monuments in this area of the Yorkshire Wolds. Each barrow is visible
as a low earthen mound, each surrounded by a 4m wide ditch from which material
was excavated during the construction of the mound. In both cases this ditch
has become infilled over the years, but is visible as a dark soil mark. The
southern of the two mounds is 1m high and has a diameter of 47m, while the
other, northern, mound is also 1m high and has a diameter of 43m. Both barrows
were investigated in 1883 by the antiquarian J R Mortimer, but in both cases
he found that another antiquarian, James Silburn, had already opened the
barrows in 1851 and disturbed the central graves, removing the burials.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments
dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most
examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as
earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple
burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often
acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring
across most of lowland Britain. Often occupying prominent locations, they are
a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable
variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of
protection.

Although these barrows have been partially excavated and altered by
agricultural activity they survive reasonably well. Further evidence of the
structure of the mounds, the surrounding ditches and burials will survive.
They will also contibute to an understanding of the wider group of which they
are members.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Books and journals
Mortimer, J , Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire, (1905)

Source: Historic England