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Round barrow at Ridge End is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. The monument survives as an earthwork and represents the funerary practices of the second millennium BCE, a period when such barrows served as prominent landscape features marking the burial places of individuals or small communities. As a scheduled monument, it remains an important archaeological resource for understanding Bronze Age settlement patterns and ritual practices in the Yorkshire region.
Round barrow at Ridge End is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008579. View the official record →
Round barrow at Ridge End is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008579.
Round barrow at Ridge End 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 1008579.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wayside cross known as Cooper Cross on Sutton Bank (7 km), Round barrow 230m east of Sutton Bank Farm (7.3 km), Two sections of the Cleave Dyke system, one known as the Casten Dike, and a round barrow south of Kilburn Moor Plantation (7.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow at Ridge End'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 at Ridge End stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.