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Three Howes is a Bronze Age round cairn cemetery located in Yorkshire, England. The site consists of three burial mounds constructed during the Bronze Age, representing a significant funerary landscape from the second millennium BCE. These cairns exemplify the ritual burial practices characteristic of Bronze Age communities in northern England, where such monumental earthworks served as focal points for ancestral commemoration and territorial marking. The monument survives as an important archaeological record of prehistoric settlement patterns and ceremonial practices in the Yorkshire landscape.
Three Howes round cairns is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003143. View the official record →
Three Howes is a Bronze Age round cairn cemetery located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003143.
Three Howes round cairns 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 1003143.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two sections of Roman road on Flamborough Rigg (8.5 km), Three medieval pillow mounds 900m north of Grove House (9.4 km), Two round cairns 450m south of Lower Farm (9.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Three Howes round cairns'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.
Three Howes round cairns stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.