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Centre Hill round barrow is a Bronze Age burial monument located near Thornborough in North Yorkshire. The barrow forms part of a significant ritual and funerary landscape that includes the nearby Thornborough Henges, pit alignments, and cursus monuments, which together represent intensive use of the area during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods. Centre Hill itself is a substantial earthwork mound that served as a burial cairn, typical of Bronze Age funerary practice in northern England. The monument's position within this complex of ritual sites underscores the importance of the Thornborough area as a focal point for ceremonial and mortuary activity in prehistoric Yorkshire, with the various earthworks spanning several centuries of use 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 round barrow is a Bronze Age burial monument located near Thornborough in North Yorkshire. 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).
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