 Bowl Barrow at TA02083905 in front of mill. |
| The area
of land known as Westwood Common stands to the west of the market town
of Beverley and immediately south of Beverly racecourse and encompasses
both a racehorse training area, a small golf course and towards its centre,
a disused mill. In the 14th century the land gained common grazing rights
which has meant that it has survived relatively unscathed and has left
us with a small collection of round
barrows that date from the Bronze
Age (including a rare oval barrow that may even be Neolithic)
through to Iron
Age square barrows as well as two Romano-British
enclosures. None of these monuments are particularly well preserved but
they can still be seen on the ground and it is a pleasant walk around
the various sites on the Common. Several barrows were excavated by the
antiquarian Canon Greenwell in 1875 and in one of the Iron Age barrows
he found the remains of a cart burial that is now in the British Museum. English Heritage records the following sites on Westwood Common: TA01903908 four Iron Age square barrows plus individual square barrows at TA02023921, TA01993917, TA01973910, TA02043896 and TA02113886. Bronze age round barrows stand at TA01843954, TA02063914 and TA02083905 with the oval barrow at TA02033901. The Romano-British enclosures are in the area of TA016389 and TA011394. |
 Bowl Barrow at TA01843954 in front of a small copse. |
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