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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kirby Ley Alternative Name: Round Hill FieldCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.767 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Village: Old Byland
Map Ref: SE5408985584
Latitude: 54.263069N Longitude: 1.17111W
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 |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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A well defined round barrow sited in a field within an area called Kirkby (Kirby) Ley on old OS Maps. The field that it is within is known locally as round hill field because of the barrow. This is Historic England List Entry Number 1009792 which tells us amongst other things that it is in a prominent position on the eastern edge of Hambleton Down overlooking Low Gill which is not quite correct. Whilst the start of Low Gill to the east can be seen from the barrow it doesn’t overlook it. What it does overlook is Tanker Dale, Nettle Dale and Blind Side to the south of the barrow. Historic England further tells us that the barrow is made of earth and stone, 1.2m high and 18m in diameter and that it was once surrounded by a ditch which has become filled in over the years.
Pastscape has further information at Monument 57145. One of the things that it tells us, is that field investigators determined in 1974 that a few inches below the surface of the mound it is composed completely of stones. They also concluded that it is highly likely that this is the site referred to by Whellan*
*This refers to T. Whellan’s 1859 book “History and Topography of the City of York: and the North Riding of Yorkshire:” where on page 647 writing about the Old Byland area he states “In a tumulus in a field called Hill Field, human remains have recently been found”. He doesn’t say who opened the barrow but makes a comment on page 664 of the same book that “T.M. Kendall of Pickering had opened about 500 barrows” It would appear that many of these barrows were within the Birdforth Wapentake within which this site also lies.
Further signs of prehistoric man’s activity in this area were the findings between 1900 and 1910 of flint and chert arrowheads by a Mr John Sanders in the surrounding fields. Pastscape Monument 57123 is one such site, in a field about 200m north of the barrow.
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