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Round barrows and entrenchments on Egton High Moor is a Bronze Age funerary and landscape monument located on the North York Moors in North Yorkshire. The site comprises multiple round barrows, burial mounds characteristic of the Bronze Age period, distributed across the moorland alongside associated entrenchments that form part of the wider field system and territorial organisation of the prehistoric landscape. These monuments represent the sustained use of Egton High Moor as a burial ground and settled landscape during the second millennium before Christ. The survival of both the barrows and their surrounding earthworks on open moorland provides important evidence for Bronze Age settlement patterns, funerary practice, and land management in upland Yorkshire.
Round barrows and entrenchments on Egton High Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004167. View the official record →
Round barrows and entrenchments on Egton High Moor is a Bronze Age funerary and landscape monument located on the North York Moors in North Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004167.
Round barrows and entrenchments on Egton High Moor 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 1004167.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Goathland Roman road, on Wheeldale Moor (6 km), Cairnfield on Howl Moor 510m south of Wheeldale Lodge, including an unenclosed hut circle settlement, field system and round burial cairns (6.6 km), Round barrow 390m south east of Lower Row Mires (6.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round barrows and entrenchments on Egton High Moor'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 barrows and entrenchments on Egton High Moor stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.