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Cock Howe is a Bronze Age round barrow situated in Yorkshire, England. The monument survives as an earthwork mound and represents one of numerous burial structures erected during the second millennium BCE across the Yorkshire landscape. Round barrows of this type typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods reflecting the status of the deceased. The site's preservation as a scheduled monument reflects its archaeological importance in understanding funerary practices and settlement patterns of the Bronze Age period in northern England.
Cock Howe round barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015761. View the official record →
Cock Howe is a Bronze Age round barrow situated in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015761.
Cock 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 1015761.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Monastic grange belonging to Rievaulx Abbey at Laskill Farm (7.9 km), Section of the Cleave Dyke system known as the Kepwick Dyke on Arden Little Moor (8.9 km), Section of the Cleave Dyke system on Arden Little Moor known as Steeple Cross Dyke including the Steeple Cross boundary stone (9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cock 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.
Cock Howe round barrow stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.