Round barrow 100m north of Church Road Farm
List Entry Summary
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 Culture, Media and Sport.
Name: Round barrow 100m north of Church Road Farm
List entry Number: 1020110
Location
The monument may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: North Yorkshire
District: Scarborough
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Stainton Dale
National Park: NORTH YORK MOORS
Grade: Not applicable to this List entry.
Date first scheduled: 09-Oct-1981
Date of most recent amendment: 25-Jun-2001
Legacy System Information
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System: RSM
UID: 34804
Asset Groupings
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List entry Description
Summary of Monument
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Reasons for Designation
Round barrows 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 mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered
single or multiple burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as
cemeteries and often acted as a focus of 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 examples recorded nationally (many more have already
been destroyed), occurring across most of Britain, including the Wessex area
where it is often possible to classify them more closely, for example as bowl
or bell barrows. Often occupying prominent locations, they are a major
historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable variation in
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 reduced by agricultural activity the round barrow 100m north of
Church Road Farm has survived well and significant information about the
original construction of the barrow, the burials placed beneath it and its
relationship with other monuments in the area will be preserved. Evidence of
earlier land use will also survive beneath the barrow mound.
History
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Details
The monument includes a round barrow situated on level ground overlooking the
sea to the north and east. It is one of a group of similar monuments lying
between the sea and the predominantly heather covered moorland to the east.
The area has been enclosed and brought into agricultural use however it is
known that the prehistoric period saw intensive use of the land for
agricultural and ritual purposes. Some remains of these activities survive
today.
The barrow has an earth and stone mound shown on a map in 1928 to measure 15m
in diameter. Although subsequently reduced by agricultural activity the
remains can still be seen as a low mound measuring 0.2m high. The mound was
surrounded by a ditch up to 3m wide which has been filled in and is no longer
visible as an earthwork.
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.
Selected Sources
Books and journals
Smith, M J B, Excavated Bronze Age Burial Mounds of Durham and N' land., (1994), 1-32
National Grid Reference: NZ 98085 01209
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