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A bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 750m east of Aldro Farm, is a Bronze Age burial mound located in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The monument consists of a circular earthwork characteristic of bowl barrows, a common funerary form across Bronze Age Britain, typically constructed during the second millennium BCE. The barrow would have originally served as a burial monument for one or more high-status individuals, with grave goods interred beneath the mound. Such monuments are significant archaeological features, preserving evidence of Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns across the Yorkshire Wolds landscape.
A bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 750m east of Aldro Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007468. View the official record →
A bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 750m east of Aldro Farm, is a Bronze Age burial mound located in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007468.
A bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 750m east of Aldro Farm is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1007468.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 250m east of Wold Farm, Bishop Wilton Wold (7.7 km), Section of double linear boundary dyke 300m north east of Millington Grange Farm (7.9 km), Bowl barrow on Huggate Pasture, 350m north east of Pasture Dale Plantation (8.8 km).
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A bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 750m east of Aldro Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.