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Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 200m east of High Woof Howe is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire, England. The barrow survives as an earthwork mound and represents a common form of funerary architecture dating from the Bronze Age period, when such burial structures were constructed across the upland regions of northern England. The monument's survival as an identifiable earthwork feature contributes to understanding settlement and burial patterns in the Yorkshire uplands during prehistoric times. Like other barrows in this region, it forms part of a wider Bronze Age landscape that includes nearby related monuments such as High Woof Howe.
Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 200m east of High Woof Howe is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019377. View the official record →
Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 200m east of High Woof Howe is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019377.
Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 200m 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 1019377.
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, 200m east of High Woof Howe'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 on Derwent Head Rigg, 200m 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.