Bowl barrow on Huggate Wold, 500m NNW of Horsedale Plantation

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History & significance

Bowl barrow on Huggate Wold is a Bronze Age burial mound located in the Yorkshire Wolds, situated approximately 500 metres north-north-west of Horsedale Plantation. The monument consists of a circular earthwork of typical bowl barrow form, which represents a common funerary tradition practised during the Bronze Age across the chalk uplands of eastern England. Such barrows functioned as burial monuments for individuals or small groups and frequently contained evidence of cremation or inhumation, though specific archaeological findings from this particular site remain limited in the published record. The survival of the barrow as an upstanding earthwork contributes to the archaeological understanding of Bronze Age settlement patterns and burial practices across the Huggate Wold landscape.

Bowl barrow on Huggate Wold, 500m NNW of Horsedale Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013854. View the official record →

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