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A bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold is a Bronze Age burial monument located on the Yorkshire Wolds between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale. The barrow consists of a circular mound with a distinctive bowl-shaped profile, a characteristic form of Bronze Age funerary architecture found across the English uplands. Such monuments typically date to the second millennium BCE and served as burial places for individuals of social standing within their communities. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork on the open wold landscape, forming part of the significant concentration of prehistoric monuments documented across this region of the Yorkshire Wolds.
A bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007443. View the official record →
A bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold is a Bronze Age burial monument located on the Yorkshire Wolds between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007443.
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 1007443.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 250m east of Wold Farm, Bishop Wilton Wold (7.4 km), Section of double linear boundary dyke 300m north east of Millington Grange Farm (7.5 km), Bowl barrow on Huggate Pasture, 350m north east of Pasture Dale Plantation (8.3 km).
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