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Aldro earthworks is a bowl barrow situated on Birdsall Wold in North Yorkshire, approximately one kilometre north-west of Brown Moor Farm. The monument dates to the Bronze Age and represents a funerary tradition of burial mound construction that was widespread across the chalk and limestone uplands of Yorkshire during the second millennium BCE. The barrow survives as a substantial earthwork comprising a roughly circular mound with a distinctive bowl-shaped profile, characteristic of this barrow type. As a scheduled ancient monument, it forms part of the broader landscape of prehistoric ritual and burial activity that defines Birdsall Wold and its surrounding archaeological context.
Aldro earthworks: a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 1km north-west of Brown Moor Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007495. View the official record →
Aldro earthworks is a bowl barrow situated on Birdsall Wold in North Yorkshire, approximately one kilometre north-west of Brown Moor Farm. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007495.
Aldro earthworks: a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 1km north-west of Brown Moor 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 1007495.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Site of Archbishop's moated palace and fishponds, Hall Garth. (7.1 km), Round barrow 250m east of Wold Farm, Bishop Wilton Wold (7.5 km), Section of double linear boundary dyke 300m north east of Millington Grange Farm (8.2 km).
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Research the area around Aldro earthworks: a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 1km north-west of Brown Moor Farm