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Round barrow on Thorn Hill, 310m south of the confluence of Black Dike Slack and Mardale Slack is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire. The barrow survives as a substantial earthwork and represents a characteristic funerary structure of the Bronze Age period, when such mounds served as repositories for cremated or inhumed remains alongside grave goods. The site's location in the upland landscape typical of Bronze Age barrow distributions in northern England reflects patterns of burial practice and territorial use during the second millennium BC. As a designated heritage asset, the monument contributes to understanding the funerary archaeology and settlement patterns of Bronze Age Yorkshire.
Round barrow on Thorn Hill, 310m south of the confluence of Black Dike Slack and Mardale Slack is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018752. View the official record →
Round barrow on Thorn Hill, 310m south of the confluence of Black Dike Slack and Mardale Slack is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018752.
Round barrow on Thorn Hill, 310m south of the confluence of Black Dike Slack and Mardale Slack 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 1018752.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrows and entrenchments on Egton High Moor (7.3 km), Hart Leap cross dyke on Glaisdale Rigg, 240m and 410m north of Highdale Farm (7.3 km), Cross dyke on Glaisdale Rigg, 520m and 250m west of Highdale Farm (7.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow on Thorn Hill, 310m south of the confluence of Black Dike Slack and Mardale Slack'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 Thorn Hill, 310m south of the confluence of Black Dike Slack and Mardale Slack stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.