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Blakey Howe is a Bronze Age round barrow located in Yorkshire, England. The monument survives as a burial mound and represents the funerary practices of the Bronze Age communities that inhabited the region during the second millennium BC. Round barrows of this type typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods that reflected the status and beliefs of the deceased. The site is recorded as a scheduled ancient monument and forms part of the broader landscape of Bronze Age burial monuments distributed across Yorkshire.
Blakey Howe round barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018983. View the official record →
Blakey Howe is a Bronze Age round barrow located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018983.
Blakey Howe round barrow 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 1018983.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow and cairnfield 480m north east of Hagg End (7.1 km), Stone circle and cairnfield on Harland Moor, 375m south west of Park Farm (7.2 km), Round cairn 615m SSW of Rudland House (7.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Blakey Howe round barrow'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.
Blakey Howe round barrow stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.