Round barrow 1000m north east of Littlewood Lodge

Overview

Heritage Category: Scheduled Monument

List Entry Number: 1007572

Date first listed: 26-Jun-1967

Date of most recent amendment: 29-Sep-1993

Location

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

National Grid Reference: SE 95722 38035

Reasons for Designation

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.

Despite limited plough damage the monument remains visible and will retain significant information on its original form and evidence of the burials placed within it, and its relationship to the wider group of adjacent barrows.

Details

The monument includes a prehistoric round barrow, one of a group on this area of the Yorkshire Wolds. The barrow is 0.3m high and has a diameter of 35m. The barrow is crossed east-west by a hedge, the majority of the mound lying to its south. Although no longer visible at ground level, a ditch, from which material was excavated during the construction of the monument, surrounds the barrow mound. This has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature 4m wide.

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.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number: 21144

Legacy System: RSM

Sources

Books and journals
The Victoria History of the County of York and The East Riding, (1907), 374
Other
3771, Humberside SMR,

Legal

This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.