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Siss Cross Hill is a Bronze Age funerary landscape comprising an enclosed urnfield and two adjacent round barrows situated on high ground in Yorkshire. The urnfield represents a cremation cemetery of the later Bronze Age, enclosed by a substantial boundary bank or ditch system, reflecting the organised ritual practices of Bronze Age communities in the region. The two barrows, typical of earlier Bronze Age burial tradition, occupy prominent positions adjacent to the urnfield on the hill summit, suggesting multiple phases of funerary use across the Bronze Age period. The monument demonstrates the ceremonial importance of hilltop locations for burial practices and the continuity of mortuary traditions across several centuries of the Bronze Age.
Bronze Age enclosed urnfield and two adjacent round barrows on the summit of Siss Cross Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018781. View the official record →
Siss Cross Hill is a Bronze Age funerary landscape comprising an enclosed urnfield and two adjacent round barrows situated on high ground in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018781.
Bronze Age enclosed urnfield and two adjacent round barrows on the summit of Siss Cross Hill 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 1018781.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wolf Pit round barrow at the southern end of Danby Rigg, 810m south east of Falcon Farm (7.5 km), Hart Leap cross dyke on Glaisdale Rigg, 240m and 410m north of Highdale Farm (8.2 km), Cross dyke on Glaisdale Rigg, 520m and 250m west of Highdale Farm (8.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bronze Age enclosed urnfield and two adjacent round barrows on the summit of Siss Cross Hill'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.
Bronze Age enclosed urnfield and two adjacent round barrows on the summit of Siss Cross Hill stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.