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Section of linear earthwork on Seamer Moor Hill is a prehistoric defensive or territorial boundary feature located in North Yorkshire. The earthwork consists of a ditch and bank formation characteristic of Iron Age or Bronze Age construction, though precise dating remains uncertain without excavation. Such linear earthworks across moorland typically served to define territorial divisions, control movement of people or livestock, or provide defensive positions during the later prehistoric period. The monument survives as an upstanding earthen feature and remains an important archaeological record of land use and social organisation in prehistoric Yorkshire.
Section of linear earthwork on Seamer Moor Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008135. View the official record →
Section of linear earthwork on Seamer Moor Hill is a prehistoric defensive or territorial boundary feature located in North Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008135.
Section of linear earthwork on Seamer Moor Hill 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 1008135.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Star Carr Early Mesolithic settlement site, 960m NNW of Woodhouse Farm (5.8 km), Hospital of St Mary, Staxton (site of) (7.2 km), Wykeham Cistercian priory, All Saints parish church and churchyard cross (7.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Section of linear earthwork on Seamer Moor Hill'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.
Section of linear earthwork on Seamer Moor Hill stands on Corallian Group, bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.