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Gallow Hill round barrow is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire, England. The site consists of a circular mound of earth and stone constructed during the Bronze Age as a funerary monument, reflecting the burial practices characteristic of that period. Round barrows of this type typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods such as pottery and metalwork. The barrow survives as an upstanding earthwork and remains an important archaeological record of Bronze Age mortuary practice in the Yorkshire region.
Gallow Hill round barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008577. View the official record →
Gallow Hill round barrow is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008577.
Gallow 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 1008577.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wayside cross known as Cooper Cross on Sutton Bank (7.6 km), Round barrow 230m east of Sutton Bank Farm (8 km), Two sections of the Cleave Dyke system, one known as the Casten Dike, and a round barrow south of Kilburn Moor Plantation (8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Gallow 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.
Gallow Hill round barrow stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.