Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on the edge of Hanging Grimston
Brow and is the westernmost of a number of barrows on Deepdale Wold. This
barrow lies less than 10m to the west of an old track known as Gatehowe Road;
"-howe" possibly alludes to the burial mounds in the vicinity of the track.

Although altered by agricultural activity, the barrow is still visible as a
mound 1.5m high and 20m in diameter. A ditch surrounding the base of the
mound is still visible as a slight hollow up to 9m wide and has also been
identified on aerial photographs. The barrow was recorded and partially
excavated by J R Mortimer in 1866. Although there had been some earlier
disturbance of the mound, a central stone cist grave and four burials were
recorded; the skeletons were reinterred after the excavation.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

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Reasons for Scheduling

Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments
dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most
examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as
earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple
burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often
acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring
across most of lowland Britain. Often occupying prominent locations, they are
a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable
variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of
protection.

Although the barrow has been partially altered by agricultural activity, it
is still clearly visible and was also comparatively well-documented during a
campaign of fieldwork in the 19th century. Further evidence of the structure
of the mound, the surrounding ditch, grave pits and burials will survive.

The monument is one of a closely associated group of barrows which have
further associations with broadly contemporary boundary earthworks in the
vicinity of Hanging Grimston. Similar groups of monuments are also known from
other parts of the Wolds and from the southern edge of the North York Moors.
Such associations between monuments offer important scope for the study of the
division of land for social, ritual and agricultural purposes in different
geographical areas during the prehistoric period.

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Sources

Books and journals
Mortimer, J R , Forty Years Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire, (1905)
Other
Stoertz C, RCHME unpublished survey (1992), 1992,

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