More information : [NZ 84300891] Swarth Howe [NR] (a Tumulus)[NAT] (1)
'Swarthoue' was excavated by Anderson, and a report read to the
society on 16th February 1854. A stone cist 3 ft by 2 ft by about 1
ft 4 ins deep, covered by a stone slab, and containing charcoal and
"dark decomposed matter" was found. Nearby was a fragment of a bone pin, and a small urn embedded in charcoal and calcined bone. In the NW quadrant of the mound traces of an internment with an urn" of the usual character" were on the old ground surface. There was also some"dark matter", apparently the remains of a body "which had been buried entire", two flint spearheads and two jet ornaments.
"This barrow had been laid slightly concave, or 'dished' at the top.
It had three walls running across it from north to south, about five
feet in length and three feet apart, four feet in height and about twofeet thick". Within these walls in the barrow was found a marked or carved stone similar to two stones comprising the remains of an
alignment (NZ 80 NW 2) which ran between Swarth Howe and two adjacent
barrows (NZ 80 NW 5 and 44). (2)
Known locally as Penny Howe. (3)
(NZ 84300891) Penny Howe (NR) (4)
Heather covered, approximately 17m diameter, and 2m high with
mutilated centre. Published survey (25") correct. (5)
NZ 843087. Swarth Howe, round barrow. Scheduled. (6)
(NZ 84300891) Swarth Howe (NR) (7)
NZ 8430 0891. Anderson No.1 (Swarth Howe)/NYM 57 in corpus. Complete
list of finds includes Abercromby type 1a food vessel urn (not
traced) and accessory cup (not traced), both of which were recorded
in Liverpool Museum records. (8)
A Bonze Age round barrow, known as Swarth Howe, situated on Dunsley Moor on the north edge of the North York Moors. The barrow has an earth and stone mound which stands up to 2 metres high and has a maximum diameter of 25 metres. The barrow was originally surrounded by a kerb of stone which defined the barrow and supported the mound. However, over the years many of these stone have been taken away or buried by soil slipping off the mound. In the centre of the mound there is a hollow, the result of the partial excavation of the barrow in 1852 by S Anderson. He discovered a cist burial consisting of stone slabs set vertically into a rectangular shape around a cremation and covered with a further stone positioned horizontally. He also found two other cremations, an inhumation burial as well as two jet ornaments and a bone pin. Scheduled. (9)
A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on air photographs, centred at NZ 8430 0891. The barrow measures approximately 11m in diameter and a central depression is visible in the barrow. The monument is masked by dense vegetation on the latest 2009 vertical photography.
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