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Linear earthwork at High Harker Hill is a prehistoric linear monument located in Yorkshire, England. The earthwork consists of a bank and ditch formation typical of Bronze Age or Iron Age defensive or territorial boundaries, though its precise dating remains subject to archaeological interpretation. Such linear features in the Yorkshire landscape often served to demarcate land divisions, control movement, or define settlement territories during the later prehistoric period. The monument's survival as an upstanding earthwork demonstrates the durability of these ancient landscape interventions across millennia.
Linear earthwork at High Harker Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012602. View the official record →
Linear earthwork at High Harker Hill is a prehistoric linear monument located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012602.
Linear earthwork at High Harker Hill 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 1012602.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bolton Parks Lead Mine and ore works (4.3 km), Cobscar calamine house on Cobscar Rake, 770m east of Cobscar Mill (5 km), Cobscar Mill ore hearth lead smeltmill, flue and chimney (5.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Linear earthwork at High Harker Hill'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.
Linear earthwork at High Harker Hill stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.