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Crane Field round barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. The monument survives as a substantial earthwork and represents the funerary practices of prehistoric communities during the second millennium before the present. As a round barrow, it would have contained inhumation or cremation burials within a central chamber or pit, typical of Bronze Age mortuary custom. The site is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under entry number 1010448, reflecting its status as a scheduled monument of archaeological significance.
Crane Field round barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010448. View the official record →
Crane Field round barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010448.
Crane Field 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 1010448.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Long Roods round barrow (4 km), Moated site W of Paget Hall (5.8 km), Roman villa at Kirk Sink (6.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Crane Field 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.
Crane Field round barrow stands on Bowland High Group And Craven Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone.