Round barrows E of Lounsdale Plantation, Kildale Moor

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History & significance

Round barrows east of Lounsdale Plantation, Kildale Moor is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on the North York Moors in North Yorkshire. The site comprises earthwork burial mounds of the type commonly constructed during the Bronze Age, when such barrows served as prominent landscape features and repositories for the cremated or inhumed remains of the dead, often accompanied by grave goods. The barrows are situated within the wider archaeological landscape of Kildale Moor, an area rich in prehistoric remains that reflect the sustained use of the moorland environment during the Bronze Age period. The monument's survival as an earthwork demonstrates the importance of upland moor environments in preserving archaeological features from later agricultural disturbance.

Round barrows E of Lounsdale Plantation, Kildale Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004137. View the official record →

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