Round barrow on Ryston Bank 310m south west of Hanging Stone

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History & significance

Round barrow on Ryston Bank 310m south west of Hanging Stone is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Yorkshire, England. The barrow forms part of the dispersed cemetery landscape characteristic of the Bronze Age period in northern England, when such earthen mounds were constructed as burial features for individuals of elevated status or community importance. The monument survives as an upstanding circular earthwork, though like many barrows of this type its original dimensions may have been reduced through agricultural activity and natural erosion over three millennia. Its proximity to other named features such as Hanging Stone suggests it formed part of a wider ritual or funerary landscape significant to Bronze Age communities in the region.

Round barrow on Ryston Bank 310m south west of Hanging Stone is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016678. View the official record →

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