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Two round barrows at Sour Milk Hills is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Yorkshire, England. These earthen mounds represent a form of burial practice characteristic of prehistoric communities in northern England, with round barrows serving as communal or individual sepulchres dating broadly to the period between the fourth and second millennia before the present era. The barrows comprise two distinct circular earthworks whose physical form, though subject to the effects of time and land use, preserves evidence of prehistoric mortuary ritual and settlement patterns in the region. Such monuments are significant archaeological witnesses to early agricultural societies and their treatment of the dead, and their survival aids understanding of Bronze Age and earlier burial customs across the Pennine landscape.
Two round barrows at Sour Milk Hills is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008442. View the official record →
Two round barrows at Sour Milk Hills is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008442.
Two round barrows at Sour Milk Hills 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 1008442.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow 350m south of Long Plain Farm (8.5 km), Old Byland monastic grange immediately to the west and north-west of Valley View Farm (8.8 km), Round barrow 600m west of Grange Farm (9 km).
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Two round barrows at Sour Milk Hills stands on Ravenscar Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.