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A bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale, is a Bronze Age burial monument located in the Yorkshire Wolds. The barrow survives as a low earthen mound characteristic of the bowl barrow type, a funerary structure widely distributed across the Wolds during the second millennium BC. Bowl barrows of this region typically contained inhumation or cremation burials accompanied by grave goods, reflecting the ritual practices and social organisation of Bronze Age communities. The monument's survival within the Wolds landscape, an area rich in prehistoric burial monuments, attests to the importance of this locality as a place of the dead during the Bronze Age.
A bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007442. View the official record →
A bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale, is a Bronze Age burial monument located in the Yorkshire Wolds. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007442.
A bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale 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 1007442.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 250m east of Wold Farm, Bishop Wilton Wold (7.2 km), Section of double linear boundary dyke 300m north east of Millington Grange Farm (7.4 km), Section of linear boundary dyke on Cow Moor, Millington Dale (9 km).
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