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Round barrow on Elm Ledge, 720m north of Clither Beck Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire, England. The barrow represents a typical funerary practice of the Bronze Age period, when such earthen mounds were constructed to mark the graves of significant individuals within prehistoric communities. The monument survives as a substantial earthwork on the moorland landscape, preserving evidence of burial customs and settlement patterns of the second millennium before Christ. Its designation as a scheduled monument reflects its archaeological importance and the need to protect this surviving example of Bronze Age funerary architecture.
Round barrow on Elm Ledge, 720m north of Clither Beck Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018750. View the official record →
Round barrow on Elm Ledge, 720m north of Clither Beck Farm is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018750.
Round barrow on Elm Ledge, 720m north of Clither Beck 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 1018750.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval cross reused as a signpost at the top of Caper Hill on the north east side of Glaisdale High Moor (8.7 km), Wayside Cross called Botton Cross on Danby High Moor (8.9 km), Peat Hill round cairn 575m north west of Pannierman Bridgestone, on Glaisdale High Moor (9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow on Elm Ledge, 720m north of Clither Beck Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Round barrow on Elm Ledge, 720m north of Clither Beck Farm stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.