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Round barrow at White Stone Crag is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. The monument survives as a substantial earthwork and represents the funerary practices of prehistoric communities during the second millennium BCE. As a scheduled ancient monument, it forms part of the wider archaeological landscape of Bronze Age barrow cemeteries characteristic of the upland regions of northern England. The site's preservation provides evidence of ceremonial burial practices and the settlement patterns of Bronze Age populations in the Yorkshire moorlands.
Round barrow at White Stone Crag is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008582. View the official record →
Round barrow at White Stone Crag is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008582.
Round barrow at White Stone Crag 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 1008582.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Section of the Cleave Dyke system on Arden Little Moor known as Steeple Cross Dyke including the Steeple Cross boundary stone (9.4 km), Long barrow 400m NW of Steeple Cross (9.7 km), Section of the Cleave Dyke system on Arden Little Moor (9.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow at White Stone Crag'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 White Stone Crag stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.