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Aldro earthworks is a Bronze Age ceremonial and territorial monument comprising seven bowl barrows distributed across Birdsall Wold in North Yorkshire, situated approximately 220 metres east-north-east of Aldro Farm. The monument group is accompanied by remains of a linear boundary earthwork, suggesting organised land division and use of the landscape during the later Bronze Age or possibly earlier Iron Age. The barrows themselves represent funerary monuments of the type characteristic of Yorkshire's Bronze Age burial practices, when prominent individuals or family groups were interred beneath substantial earthen mounds. The site's position on open downland wold, combined with the presence of the boundary feature, indicates an area of sustained archaeological significance marking both ritual activity and territorial organisation in prehistoric Yorkshire.
Aldro earthworks: seven bowl barrows and part of a linear boundary on Birdsall Wold, 220m east-north-east of Aldro Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007456. View the official record →
Aldro earthworks is a Bronze Age ceremonial and territorial monument comprising seven bowl barrows distributed across Birdsall Wold in North Yorkshire, situated approximately 220 metres east-north-east of Aldro Farm. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007456.
Aldro earthworks: seven bowl barrows and part of a linear boundary on Birdsall Wold, 220m east-north-east 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 1007456.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including 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 (8.2 km), Bowl barrow on Huggate Pasture, 350m north east of Pasture Dale Plantation (9.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Aldro earthworks: seven bowl barrows and part of a linear boundary on Birdsall Wold, 220m east-north-east 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: seven bowl barrows and part of a linear boundary on Birdsall Wold, 220m east-north-east of Aldro Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.