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Iron Age square barrow cemetery on Haisthorpe Moor, 750m WNW of Demming Farm

England
List entry 1013706
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1013706
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
16.01 hectares
Grid reference
TA 13056 62307
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Haisthorpe Moor is an Iron Age square barrow cemetery located approximately 750 metres west-north-west of Demming Farm in Yorkshire. The site comprises a group of square burial mounds characteristic of the Iron Age period in northern England, representing a form of funerary monument distinct from the round barrows of earlier Bronze Age tradition. Such cemeteries provide important archaeological evidence for Iron Age settlement patterns, social organisation, and burial practices in the Yorkshire landscape. The monument is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under entry 1013706.

Iron Age square barrow cemetery on Haisthorpe Moor, 750m WNW of Demming Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013706. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Iron Age square barrow cemetery on Haisthorpe Moor, 750m WNW of Demming Farm?

Haisthorpe Moor is an Iron Age square barrow cemetery located approximately 750 metres west-north-west of Demming Farm in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013706.

Who is responsible for protecting Iron Age square barrow cemetery on Haisthorpe Moor, 750m WNW of Demming Farm?

Iron Age square barrow cemetery on Haisthorpe Moor, 750m WNW of Demming Farm 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 1013706.

What other scheduled monuments are near Iron Age square barrow cemetery on Haisthorpe Moor, 750m WNW of Demming Farm?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow in Lady Boynton's Whin (0.7 km), Wharram Hill embankment cross (1.2 km), Burton Agnes 12th-century manor house (3 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
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Legal
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Bowl barrow in Lady Boynton's Whin
0.7 km
Wharram Hill embankment cross
1.2 km
Burton Agnes 12th-century manor house
3 km
Medieval hall and settlement remains immediately west of St John's Church
3.9 km
Nunnery Hill and adjacent earthworks, Little Kelk
4 km
Romano-British villa east of Sandy Lane, 800m north west of Harpham Grange
4.2 km
Medieval complex at Barmston Old Hall, including two moated sites, a pond, three fishponds and associated enclosures with part of a field system.
4.3 km
St Martin's collegiate church and medieval standing cross, Lowthorpe
5.3 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Iron Age square barrow cemetery on Haisthorpe Moor, 750m WNW of Demming Farm

Iron Age square barrow cemetery on Haisthorpe Moor, 750m WNW of Demming Farm stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.

The wider landscape

Around Iron Age square barrow cemetery on Haisthorpe Moor, 750m WNW of Demming Farm

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