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Three round barrows on Ness Head, located 750 metres east of Howlgate Farm, is a Bronze Age monument comprising three burial mounds situated on elevated ground in Yorkshire. The barrows represent funerary practice typical of the Bronze Age period, when such earthen mounds served as repositories for the cremated or inhumed remains of individuals of status within their communities. The monuments are now scheduled as an ancient monument, reflecting their archaeological significance as evidence of prehistoric settlement and burial custom in the region. The barrows survive as landscape features demonstrating the distribution of Bronze Age funerary monuments across the Yorkshire uplands.
Three round barrows on Ness Head 750m east of Howlgate Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020399. View the official record →
Three round barrows on Ness Head, located 750 metres east of Howlgate Farm, is a Bronze Age monument comprising three burial mounds situated on elevated ground in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020399.
Three round barrows on Ness Head 750m east of Howlgate Farm 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 1020399.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 520m north west of St Hilda's Church, Ellerburn (4.4 km), Prehistoric linear boundary in Ellerburn Wood, 370m north west of St Hilda's Church (4.5 km), Beacon Hill ringwork siege castle and Royal Observer Corps post (5.7 km).
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Three round barrows on Ness Head 750m east of Howlgate Farm stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.