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Middleton Heights round barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. The monument survives as a substantial earthwork and represents a burial practice characteristic of the second millennium before Christ, when such mounds were constructed to inter the dead and serve as territorial or dynastic markers in the landscape. The barrow's survival and preservation make it an important example of prehistoric funerary architecture from the Bronze Age period.
Middleton Heights round barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003258. View the official record →
Middleton Heights round barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003258.
Middleton Heights 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 1003258.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including St Nicholas' medieval hospital 550m East of Brick Yard Farm (3.1 km), Beacon Hill ringwork siege castle and Royal Observer Corps post (3.3 km), Pickering Castle: 11th century motte and bailey castle and 13th century shell keep castle (3.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Middleton Heights 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.
Middleton Heights round barrow stands on Corallian Group, bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.