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Round barrow on Coomb Hill, 530m west of Coomb Slack Farm, is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument, representing a funerary practice characteristic of the Bronze Age period when communities constructed these prominent landscape features to mark significant burial sites. Such round barrows typically contained inhumation or cremation burials, often accompanied by grave goods, and served important ceremonial and territorial functions within prehistoric settlements. The monument's survival as an upstanding earthwork makes it valuable for understanding Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns in Yorkshire.
Round barrow on Coomb Hill, 530m west of Coomb Slack Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019144. View the official record →
Round barrow on Coomb Hill, 530m west of Coomb Slack Farm, is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019144.
Round barrow on Coomb Hill, 530m west of Coomb Slack 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 1019144.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow at North Moor, 120m south east of Forest Lodge (3.2 km), Northern of two round barrows known as Row Howes, 640m south east of East Moor Farm (4 km), Southern of two round barrows known as Row Howes, 680m south east of East Moor Farm (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow on Coomb Hill, 530m west of Coomb Slack Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Round barrow on Coomb Hill, 530m west of Coomb Slack Farm stands on Corallian Group, bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.