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Percy Cross bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. The monument is a bowl barrow, a common funerary structure of the Bronze Age characterised by a circular mound of earth or stone raised over a central burial deposit. Bowl barrows of this type were constructed across Britain during the second millennium BCE and typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods. The site remains an important example of Bronze Age mortuary practice and forms part of the broader archaeological landscape of Yorkshire's prehistoric burial monuments.
Percy Cross bowl barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015435. View the official record →
Percy Cross bowl barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015435.
Percy Cross bowl 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 1015435.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 550m west of Baysdale Farm (5 km), Cross dyke 850m WSW of Baysdale Farm (5.2 km), Baysdale Abbey Bridge, 460m east of Baysdale Farm (5.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Percy Cross bowl 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.
Percy Cross bowl barrow stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.