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Green Howe
Hob Uid: 53400
Location : North Yorkshire Harrogate North Deighton
Grid Ref : SE3886051240
Summary : A Bronze Age bowl barrow which survives to a height of about 2.5m and has an overall diameter of nearly 20m. It also appears to have been built over part of a Neolithic settlement. The barrow was partly excavated between 1938 and 1942. It is visible as an earthwork on historic and recent air photos.
More information : [SE 3887 5123] GREEN HOWE [O.E.] (1) Green Howe, a barrow with dry-stone revetment, was excavated in 1938/9 by Kent and Stickland. Two pit graves containing undateable inhumations and a shallower grave containing an inhumation with food vessel were found, also secondary cremations, one of them in an overhanging rim urn. The site covered part of a Neolithic settlement, material from which was incorporated in the revetment and finds, now in the Harrogate Art Gallery, included pottery, mainly Ne. B. but including Ebbsfleet type ware, Beaker Sherds, leaf and barbed and tanged arrow heads, a polished greenstone axe, and many flakes from others. See AO/LP/57/46. (2) Resurveyed at 1:2500. A grass covered bowl barrow 3.5m. high, devoid of ditch. (3) Green Howe, an Early Bronze Age barrow on the site of a Neolithic settlement. Complete excavation report (5). Some material recovered from the site including a probable Roman bracelet fragment, is in the Yorkshire Museum. Beaker sherds of the All Over Cord group. Corpus No 1264 F, listed by Clarke. (4-5) SE 388 512. Green Howe round barrow. Scheduled No NY/1137. (6) This barrow is visible as an earthwork on historic and recent air photos. (7-8)

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Source details : OS 6" 1956.
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Source details : P.P.S 5, 1939, p.251. (J.G.D. Clark).
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Source details : English Heritage Schedule Entry 04/03/1997
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Source details : F1 RL 23-OCT-62
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Source details : Clarke DL Beaker Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland 2 1970 p506
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Source details : Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 43 1971 pp2-32
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Source details : English Heritage SAM List North Yorkshire March 1994 p21
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Source details : NMR SE 3851/36 NMR 20733/19 11-DEC-2007
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Source details : EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 24-MAY-2009 ACCESSED 25-SEP-2012
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Neolithic
Display Date : NEOLITHIC
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Monument Type : Settlement
Evidence : Find

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : BRONZE AGE
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Monument Type : Bowl Barrow, Inhumation, Cinerary Urn, Human Remains
Evidence : Earthwork, Find

Monument Period Name : Roman
Display Date : Roman
Monument End Date : 410
Monument Start Date : 43
Monument Type : Findspot
Evidence : Find

Components and Objects:

Period : Bronze Age
Component Monument Type : Bowl Barrow, Inhumation, Cinerary Urn, Human Remains
Object Type : FLAKE, KNIFE, AXE, BEAKER, VESSEL
Object Material : Flint, Greenstone, Pottery

Period : Roman
Component Monument Type : Findspot
Object Type : BRACELET
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Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : NY 1137
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 26622
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (North Yorkshire)
External Cross Reference Number : MNY21503
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SE 35 SE 14
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1938-01-01
End Date : 1942-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1962-10-23
End Date : 1962-10-23

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