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Aldro earthworks is a prehistoric monument complex located on Birdsall Wold in North Yorkshire, comprising two linear boundary features and a bowl barrow. The bowl barrow represents a Bronze Age burial mound, whilst the linear earthworks are characteristic of later prehistoric or early historic land division systems common to the Yorkshire Wolds. These features collectively demonstrate the long-term use and management of this upland landscape from the Bronze Age onwards. The monument lies south of Aldro Farm and remains a significant archaeological record of settlement patterns and territorial organisation in northern England.
Aldro earthworks: two linear boundaries and a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, south of Aldro Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007469. View the official record →
Aldro earthworks is a prehistoric monument complex located on Birdsall Wold in North Yorkshire, comprising two linear boundary features and a bowl barrow. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007469.
Aldro earthworks: two linear boundaries and a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, south 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 1007469.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 250m east of Wold Farm, Bishop Wilton Wold (7.6 km), Section of double linear boundary dyke 300m north east of Millington Grange Farm (8.1 km), Bowl barrow on Huggate Pasture, 350m north east of Pasture Dale Plantation (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Aldro earthworks: two linear boundaries and a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, south 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: two linear boundaries and a bowl barrow on Birdsall Wold, south of Aldro Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.