This is a pair
of Bronze
Age round
barrows that overlook the sea to the south of Robin Hood's Bay. They
seem to be set apart form the barrows cemeteries to the west on Brow Moor,
Howdale Moor and Stony Marl Moor and are situated below the crest of a
small hill on its eastern side with fine views across the bay - this view
must have been important to the builders of the barrows. The largest barrow
measures about 18 metres in diameter and 1.3 metres tall (shown in photograph)
while the other barrow 30 metres to the east is smaller at 15 metres across
and less than half a metre high - it has been badly damaged by ploughing.
Both barrow mounds were constructed with earth and rubble and both would
have had a surrounding ditch measuring about 3 metres wide, these ditches
have now been filled and can no longer be seen.
