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Aldro earthworks is a bowl barrow located on Birdsall Wold, approximately 600 metres west of Aldro Farm in Yorkshire. The monument dates to the Bronze Age and represents a type of funerary monument common to the Wolds during the second millennium BC. Bowl barrows of this kind typically comprise a circular mound of earth raised over a central burial, often accompanied by a ditch, and served as markers of high-status graves within prehistoric communities. The earthwork survives as an archaeological feature of regional significance within the distinctive barrow cemetery landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds.
Aldro earthworks: a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 600m west of Aldro Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007504. View the official record →
Aldro earthworks is a bowl barrow located on Birdsall Wold, approximately 600 metres west of Aldro Farm in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007504.
Aldro earthworks: a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 600m west 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 1007504.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Site of Archbishop's moated palace and fishponds, Hall Garth. (7.5 km), Round barrow 250m east of Wold Farm, Bishop Wilton Wold (7.8 km), Section of double linear boundary dyke 300m north east of Millington Grange Farm (8.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Aldro earthworks: a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 600m west of Aldro Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Aldro earthworks: a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 600m west of Aldro Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.