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Centre Hill is a Bronze Age round barrow located near Thornborough in North Yorkshire, England. The site forms part of a significant complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in the Nosterfield and Thornborough area, which includes cursuses, pit alignments, and associated burial sites that collectively demonstrate intensive ritual and ceremonial activity spanning several millennia. The barrow itself represents a typical funerary monument of the Bronze Age period, constructed as a burial mound to contain cremated or inhumed remains and serving as a prominent marker in the landscape. The broader monument complex in this region reflects the sustained importance of the Thornborough area as a focal point for ceremonial and mortuary practices from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age.
Earth circles, cursus, pit alignments and burial sites near Nosterfield and Thornborough, including Centre Hill round barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004912. View the official record →
Centre Hill is a Bronze Age round barrow located near Thornborough in North Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004912.
Earth circles, cursus, pit alignments and burial sites near Nosterfield and Thornborough, including Centre Hill 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 1004912.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 425m north west of Rushwood Hall (0.8 km), East Tanfield deserted medieval village (1 km), Marmion Tower (former gatehouse of Tanfield Castle fortified manor) (2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Earth circles, cursus, pit alignments and burial sites near Nosterfield and Thornborough, including Centre Hill 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.
Earth circles, cursus, pit alignments and burial sites near Nosterfield and Thornborough, including Centre Hill round barrow stands on Permian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.