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Round barrow on Sleights Pasture is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument characteristic of the funerary practice of the Bronze Age period, when such mounds were constructed to mark the graves of significant individuals. The site is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under entry number 1010443, indicating its designation as a monument of national archaeological importance. As a round barrow, it represents the burial traditions and landscape archaeology of the Bronze Age communities that inhabited Yorkshire.
Round barrow on Sleights Pasture is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010443. View the official record →
Round barrow on Sleights Pasture is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010443.
Round barrow on Sleights Pasture 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 1010443.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Settlement on Gauber High Pasture Rock (0.9 km), Eller Keld settlement site (0.9 km), Settlement in Ashes Shaw Pasture, Horton (1.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow on Sleights Pasture's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Round barrow on Sleights Pasture stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.