Embanked pit alignments, linear earthworks, round barrows and cairns on Ebberston Low Moor

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History & significance

Ebberston Low Moor is a complex of Bronze Age funerary and ceremonial monuments located on moorland in North Yorkshire. The site comprises a series of round barrows and cairns, together with linear earthworks including embanked pit alignments that represent a significant concentration of ritual landscape features from the second millennium BCE. These monuments, which include both burial mounds and the distinctive pit alignment earthworks, indicate sustained use of the location for funerary practices and ceremonial activity across the Bronze Age period. The linear arrangements of pits and associated banks represent a distinctive form of Bronze Age monumental construction particular to certain regions of northern England.

Embanked pit alignments, linear earthworks, round barrows and cairns on Ebberston Low Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019601. View the official record →

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