 Howdale Moor northern barrow at NZ95010118 looking northeast to Robin Hood's Bay. This barrow is thought to have been excavated by Canon Greenwell. |
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The two Bronze
Age round
barrows shown here are the remnants of a group of barrows that once
ran along the northwestern edge of Howdale Moor close to what is now
a track to How Dale farm. Both have probably been damaged by agricultural
activity which has seen the rest of the group destroyed and what remains
are a pair of mounds both less than a metre high and about 20 metres
in diameter - both would originally have been surrounded by ditches
which are now infilled. The barrow shown above is believed to have been
excavated by the 19th century antiquarian Canon Greenwell who recorded
it as number CCLXXI (271) in his "Recent Research in Barrows in
Yorkshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire etc" published in 1890. He describes
finding a pair of inverted cinerary urns
both containing bones as well as a three further deposit of burnt bones,
one in a small circular hollow and another in a rectangular pit. He
also records finding a decorated incense
cup which contained traces of charcoal and a group of twelve twelve
jet
beads (shown at the bottom of this page).
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 Howdale Moor southern barrow at NZ94790112 looking northwest from the farm track. |
 Jet beads found in one of the Howdale barrows |
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