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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Mill Hill (Eastburn) Alternative Name: Mortimer (Barrow 268)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.195 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (East) Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Driffield Nearest Village: Kilburn / Eastburn
Map Ref: SE98545525
Latitude: 53.983918N Longitude: 0.498769W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Cairn in Yorkshire (East)
This tumulus features on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their entry for Mill Hill, Eastburn, Driffield, East Yorkshire. TNA says: "Once located on the south side of the stream between the ‘lost’ village of Eastburn and the cottages at Battleburn, this burial mound was one of many explored by the great J.R. Mortimer (1905), who told that: 'On June 24th, 1884, it measured about 40 feet in diameter and 4½ in elevation, and had a depression in the centre, which might have been caused by a former opening. By the old inhabitants of the neighbourhood it is known — like several other similar mounds near settlements — by the name of Mill Hill. A 15-feet square was cut from the centre and the natural ground beneath was found to consist of 3 feet of clay, resting upon chalk gravel. Through this clay and into the chalk gravel beneath was a roughly-cut trench, 3½ feet deep by about 3 feet wide, running north and south the whole width of our excavation and beyond, and from about the centre of the mound a similarly roughly-formed trench was observed to run east and west…'"
TNA adds: "Mortimer suggested this site was once an old moot site; comparing it to a place of the same name a short distance west at Kirkburn."
This site is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 64518, which although gives a slightly different NGR to TNA's, gives the same description. The more recent entry from Pastscape reads: "SE 98545525. A turf-covered mound 20m diameter 'cantilevered' out from the slope of the flood plain to Eastburn Beck, and 1.6m high on the north side. It is slightly mutilated in the centre as noted by Mortimer, but is otherwise well preserved. Situated as it is below the local high point, the mound is not ideally suited for a post mill, but its flattish profile and the excavation evidence for the probable existence of cross beams
suggest that this was one of its functions. The only argument that can be raised against its having originated as a barrow is again a purely topographical one."
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