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Two bowl barrows on Birdsall Wold is a pair of Bronze Age burial mounds located in the Wolds of North Yorkshire, situated between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale. The monuments are representative of the funerary practices of the second millennium BC, when communities across the Yorkshire Wolds constructed these earthen mounds to mark the graves of their dead. Bowl barrows are the most common form of Bronze Age burial monument, characterised by a circular mound of earth and stone lacking the ditched enclosures of more elaborate barrow types. The two examples at Birdsall Wold remain visible features of the prehistoric landscape, contributing to the archaeological significance of the Wolds region, though their current condition and the nature of any surviving deposits are not fully detailed in accessible records.
Two bowl barrows on Birdsall Wold, between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007441. View the official record →
Two bowl barrows on Birdsall Wold is a pair of Bronze Age burial mounds located in the Wolds of North Yorkshire, situated between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007441.
Two bowl barrows on Birdsall Wold, between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale 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 1007441.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 250m east of Wold Farm, Bishop Wilton Wold (7.3 km), Section of double linear boundary dyke 300m north east of Millington Grange Farm (7.5 km), Bowl barrow on Huggate Pasture, 350m north east of Pasture Dale Plantation (8.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Two bowl barrows on Birdsall Wold, between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Two bowl barrows on Birdsall Wold, between Birdsall Dale and Vessey Pasture Dale stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.