This mound is 22ft. in diam. and about 3ft high. It has been built upon a natural knoll which makes the barrow look larger than it is. Excavation showed that the mound has an earthy core with a rubble capping.
Category: Bronze Age
Boltby Scar Iron Age Hill Fort
This Iron Age Hill Fort is mostly unrecorded and minimal information is available. A site visit is required to further understand the nature of the site. Note that both this, Roulston and Mam Tor have been dated at around 400BC.
Jun 04
Neolithic and Bronze Age Brigantia – Group Home
Welcome to Neolithic and Bronze Age Brigantia This the the group for discussions and research into Neolithic and Bronze Age Brigania.
Oct 01
Yorkshire’s “Sacred Vale” – The Dawn of Brigantia
The “Sacred” Vale of Mowbray – Brigantia’s Neolithic Capital? More than 2,000 years before the discovery and widespread use of Iron an unprecedented bout of monument building in the centre of Brigantia created the Britain’s largest religious monument complex, a place that has been suggested as being Britain’s religious capital during the Neolithic Period. Whatever …
Sep 25
Guide – Bronze Age Mining
Mining in the Bronze Age In the last twenty years or so, some thirty copper mining sites of Bronze Age date have been identified. This has allowed us to create a reasonably accurate picture of the tools and techniques used during the extraction of copper ores in this distant prehistoric period. It is only recently …
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