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Aldro earthworks is a bowl barrow situated on Birdsall Wold, approximately 650 metres west of Aldro Farm in Yorkshire, England. The monument dates to the Bronze Age and represents a burial mound of the type commonly constructed during the second millennium before the present era across the Yorkshire Wolds. The barrow survives as an earthwork of characteristic bowl form, a rounded mound without the surrounding ditch typical of some contemporaneous examples. This site forms part of the broader landscape of prehistoric funerary monuments distributed across the Wolds region, contributing to the archaeological understanding of Bronze Age burial practice and settlement patterns in northern England.
Aldro earthworks: a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 650m west of Aldro Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007502. View the official record →
Aldro earthworks is a bowl barrow situated on Birdsall Wold, approximately 650 metres west of Aldro Farm in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007502.
Aldro earthworks: a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, 650m 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 1007502.
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 (7.9 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, 650m 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, 650m west of Aldro Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.