Close to a bend in the road at the village of Wold Newton, and south of the intermittent or 'winterbourne' Gypsey Race stream, stands the often overlooked but enigmatically named barrow of Ba'l Hill. What can be seen now is partly a reconstruction carried out after this Neolithic mound was excavated in 1894. It was discovered that the monument started out as a large wooden structure that had several bodies, along with broken pottery and flints, laid out on top. These bodies would possibly have been left to rot and decompose for some time before being covered with the earthen mound.
In the past few years aerial photographs have shown that the mound is surrounded by a causewayed ditch whose northern edge follows the course of the Gypsey Race. This leads to the interesting speculation (on my part anyway) that water could have flowed around the monument to form a kind of moat at times of high flow, but whether or not this ever occurred we must see Ba'l Hill as part of a wider picture that encompassed the massive mounds at Duggleby Howe and Willie Howe that also stand close to the Gypsey Race.