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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Brotton Howe
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.973 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cleveland Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Saltburn-by-the-sea Nearest Village: Brotton
Map Ref: NZ69501886
Latitude: 54.560211N Longitude: 0.926777W
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2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
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Cairn in Cleveland

According to Pastscape, this site is officially in the county of 'Redcar and Cleveland, in the Parish of Lockwood', although others disagree and say it is in North Yorkshire! This site is described in detail in Pastscape Monument 28274. This record tells us that "This large round barrow is now only visible as a low swell in an arable field at 140m O.D. The profile of the barrow is retained in the hedgeline that bisects it from north to south but the whole of its eastern half has been obliterated by the Brotton-Kilton road. The barrow would originally have measured about 20m in diameter. Howe Hill was excavated by Hornsby and Stanton in 1914; they discovered that the mound was made up with a clay floor, overlain by 'a cairn 30 feet long and 3 feet high' of diorite cobbles, capped by a layer of earth. Cut into the clay floor were two graves: the first was oriented north-south and measured 2m long by 0.9m wide at the old land surface and was 0.7m deep. The grave was filled with 'medium sized stones' with a 'thin dark layer', thought to be an inhumation burial, on the floor; 8 of the stones bore cupmarks. The second grave, oriented north-east, south-west, was 2.5m long by 0.9m wide at the old ground surface, reducing to 1.8m long by 0.5m wide at its bottom, 1.3m below. This grave, which was filled with stones, also contained a tree trunk coffin of oak, measuring 1.5m long, 0.5m wide at the head, 0.20m wide at the foot, and 0.25m deep. At the head (north-east) were found the unburnt skull fragments of a man laid on his right side. Unaccompanied cremations had been placed at both ends of the coffin. 16 cupmarked stones were among the infill of the grave. Between the graves was a large boulder with 25 cupmarks, of which 5 had concentric rings. A further unaccompanied cremation was found 7m south-south-west of centre." More information is given in their 'More Information & Sources' section.

Further details, including a 1930 plan of the howe, along with a photograph of one of the carvings, a drawing of another plus a brief archaeology and history, is given on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their page for Brotton Howe, Brotton, Cleveland, North Yorkshire.

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:

NZ6918 : Farmland, Howe Hill by Mick Garratt — by Mick Garratt
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NZ6918 : Cleveland Street Walk towards Carlin How by John Slater — by John Slater
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NZ6918 : Kilton Lane toward Brotton by Martin Dawes — by Martin Dawes
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NZ6918 : Stile, Back Street by Mick Garratt — by Mick Garratt
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NZ6918 : Kilton Thorpe Lane in winter by Philip Barker — by Philip Barker
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