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Round barrow, 50m south of Sour Leys Farm, is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Yorkshire, England. The barrow survives as an earthwork mound and represents a burial practice characteristic of the Bronze Age period, when such monuments were constructed across much of Britain as repositories for the deceased and associated grave goods. The site's location in the Yorkshire landscape places it within a broader distribution of Bronze Age barrows that mark significant archaeological features of the region. As a scheduled ancient monument, the site retains archaeological value for understanding Bronze Age funerary practices and the settlement patterns of prehistoric Yorkshire communities.
Round barrow, 50m south of Sour Leys Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019338. View the official record →
Round barrow, 50m south of Sour Leys Farm, is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019338.
Round barrow, 50m south of Sour Leys 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 1019338.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Linear dyke known as Double Dikes, in Waterloo Plantation (6.3 km), Round barrow on Sproxton Moor, 410m north of Tom Smith's Cross (6.4 km), Byland Moor round cairns (6.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow, 50m south of Sour Leys Farm'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.
Round barrow, 50m south of Sour Leys Farm stands on Corallian Group, bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.