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Round barrow on Sproxton Moor, 410m north of Tom Smith's Cross is a Bronze Age burial mound situated on the North Yorkshire moors. The monument survives as an earthwork of circular form characteristic of barrow construction during the second millennium before the present era. Such mounds typically served as communal or elite burial monuments and represent significant evidence for prehistoric settlement patterns and mortuary practices in upland areas of northern England. The barrow's survival on open moorland preserves it as an archaeological record of Bronze Age funerary tradition in the region.
Round barrow on Sproxton Moor, 410m north of Tom Smith's Cross is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019336. View the official record →
Round barrow on Sproxton Moor, 410m north of Tom Smith's Cross is a Bronze Age burial mound situated on the North Yorkshire moors. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019336.
Round barrow on Sproxton Moor, 410m north of Tom Smith's Cross 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 1019336.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Long barrow 350m north west of Grimston Grange (8 km), Round barrow on Grimston Moor 600m north east of Grimston Grange (8.3 km), Round barrow on Grimston Moor 350m north east of Black Gill Plantation (8.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow on Sproxton Moor, 410m north of Tom Smith's Cross'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 Sproxton Moor, 410m north of Tom Smith's Cross stands on Corallian Group, bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.