Low Woof Howe
Bronze Age Round Barrow
Southeast of Grosmont, North Yorkshire  OS Map Ref SE89189618
OS Maps - Landranger 94 (Whitby & Esk Dale), Explorer OL27 (North York Moors - Eastern Area)


I haven't actually visited the site of Low Woof Howe barrow yet but I've included it here as it forms the final monument in a chain of barrow that stretch from Black Brow in the northwest to the head of the valley of Stockland Beck - a distance of about seven miles.

The list of monuments includes Flat Howes, Pen Howes, Breckon Howe, Sil Howe, Flass Brow, Robbed Howe, Foster Howes, Ann Howe, Louven Howe, Lilla Howe, High Woof Howe and finally Low Woof Howe. This chain is thought to have formed a Bronze Age territorial boundary between different parts of the North Yorkshire Moors.

According to the English Heritage report Low Woof Howe measures 15 metres in diameter and stands just over a metre tall with traces of a 2 metre wide ditch.

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