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The Group of round barrows and cross ridge dyke at Sunny Bank is a Bronze Age burial and boundary monument located in Yorkshire. The site comprises multiple round barrows, characteristic funerary structures of the Bronze Age period, alongside a cross ridge dyke which served as a territorial or defensive boundary feature. The combination of these monument types at a single location reflects the organisation of Bronze Age communities and their use of the landscape for both burial practices and land demarcation. The site remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric settlement patterns and social organisation in the Yorkshire region.
Group of round barrows and cross ridge dyke at Sunny Bank is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010528. View the official record →
The Group of round barrows and cross ridge dyke at Sunny Bank is a Bronze Age burial and boundary monument located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010528.
Group of round barrows and cross ridge dyke at Sunny Bank 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 1010528.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 480m east of Yorkshire Gliding Club (7.5 km), Section of the Cleave Dyke system 200m south east of Yorkshire Gliding Club (7.7 km), Roulston Scar Iron Age promontory fort (7.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Group of round barrows and cross ridge dyke at Sunny Bank'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.
Group of round barrows and cross ridge dyke at Sunny Bank stands on Corallian Group, bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.