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Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 145m east of High Woof Howe is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Yorkshire, England. The site comprises a circular earthwork typical of round barrows constructed during the Bronze Age, a period when such burial mounds were widely erected across Britain to commemorate the dead. The barrow forms part of a wider landscape of prehistoric funerary monuments in the region, contributing to the archaeological record of Bronze Age settlement and ritual practices in upland Yorkshire. As a designated heritage asset, the monument is protected under the statutory listing system and represents an important surviving example of Bronze Age mortuary architecture and ceremonial landscape use.
Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 145m east of High Woof Howe is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019376. View the official record →
Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 145m east of High Woof Howe is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019376.
Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 145m east of High Woof Howe 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 1019376.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Oxmoor and Givendale Dikes: prehistoric linear boundaries and associated features (9.4 km), Round barrow 630m south east of High Scamridge Farm (9.5 km), Round barrow 530m south east of High Scamridge Farm (9.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 145m east of High Woof Howe's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 145m east of High Woof Howe stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.