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Round barrow on Wheeldale Moor, 1250m west of Wheeldale Lodge is a Bronze Age burial mound located on the North York Moors in Yorkshire. The barrow survives as an earthwork monument characteristic of the second millennium BCE, a period during which such funerary structures were widely constructed across upland regions of northern England. The mound's location on Wheeldale Moor places it within a landscape rich in prehistoric archaeology, where round barrows frequently occur in clusters or ritual complexes. As a scheduled monument, it remains an important archaeological resource for understanding Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns in the Yorkshire uplands.
Round barrow on Wheeldale Moor, 1250m west of Wheeldale Lodge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021257. View the official record →
Round barrow on Wheeldale Moor, 1250m west of Wheeldale Lodge is a Bronze Age burial mound located on the North York Moors in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021257.
Round barrow on Wheeldale Moor, 1250m west of Wheeldale Lodge 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 1021257.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 400m north east of Haugh Rigg (8.7 km), Round barrow 140m west of Haugh Rigg (9.1 km), Round barrow 280m south west of Haugh Rigg (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrow on Wheeldale Moor, 1250m west of Wheeldale Lodge'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 Wheeldale Moor, 1250m west of Wheeldale Lodge stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.