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Foster Howes bowl barrow (central) is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial mound located on Sneaton High Moor in Yorkshire. The monument takes the form of a bowl barrow, a common burial type of the prehistoric period characterised by a simple hemispherical or bowl-shaped earthwork mound. It forms part of the Foster Howes barrow cemetery, a significant concentration of burial monuments on the moor that demonstrates the ritual and commemorative practices of early prehistoric communities in the region. The barrow is recorded on the National Heritage List for England and remains an important archaeological record of the Yorkshire uplands' early settlement and funerary traditions.
Foster Howes bowl barrow (central) on Sneaton High Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009854. View the official record →
Foster Howes bowl barrow (central) is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial mound located on Sneaton High Moor in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009854.
Foster Howes bowl barrow (central) on Sneaton High Moor 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 1009854.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Thompson's Rigg cairnfield, including a platform cairn, round burial cairns, hollow ways, a standing stone, associated round barrows and a ring cairn (8.5 km), Prehistoric linear boundary and associated features centred 500m north east of High Bride Stones (9 km), East Toft Dike: a cross dyke 720m south and 680m south west of Little Marfit Head (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Foster Howes bowl barrow (central) on Sneaton High Moor'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.
Foster Howes bowl barrow (central) on Sneaton High Moor stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.