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Round barrow and L-shaped earthwork on Baildon Golf Course is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on high ground near Saltaire in West Yorkshire. The site comprises a round barrow of typical form for the Bronze Age period, accompanied by an L-shaped earthwork of uncertain function, both features remaining visible as earthen banks within the golf course landscape. The round barrow represents the burial practices characteristic of Bronze Age Yorkshire communities, when such mounds served as focal points for the interment of the dead and were often positioned in prominent topographical locations. The associated L-shaped earthwork may relate to contemporary land use or ritual activity, though its specific purpose remains unclear from archaeological evidence currently available.
Round barrow and L-shaped earthwork on Baildon Golf Course is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012687. View the official record →
Round barrow and L-shaped earthwork on Baildon Golf Course is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on high ground near Saltaire in West Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012687.
Round barrow and L-shaped earthwork on Baildon Golf Course 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 1012687.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enclosed settlement known as `Soldier's Trench' including a cup-marked rock (2 km), Cup-marked rock between road and public toilets at Bracken Hall Green (2 km), Carved bedrock close to road north east of the public toilets on Bracken Hall Green (2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow and L-shaped earthwork on Baildon Golf Course's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Round barrow and L-shaped earthwork on Baildon Golf Course stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.