| Summary : A round barrow of possible Neolithic origin, dug into in 1853 by members of the Yorkshire Antiquarian Club and again in 1872 by Mortimer. Mortimer described the mound as surviving to a height of 3 feet, and measuring 60 feet in diameter. By 1974, it was visible only as a slight earthen rise 20 metres in diameter and up to 0.5 metres high. Mortimer found the remains of two skeletons beneath the mound and roughly central to the barrow, both disturbed by the previous diggers. A jet slider was found in "a quantity of dark soil". Mortimer is a little ambiguous, but he appears to have found this in the mound rather than beneath it. A barbed and tanged arrowhead and a small flint knife were found "close by". In 1991, during a programme of fieldwalking undertaken as part of the Wharram research Project, an edge-polished flint axe was found on the ploughed surface of the barrow itself. This barrow was formerly recorded as part of SE 86 SW 12. That record should be consulted for additional sources and information. |