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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Angel Moon Field Alternative Name: Roundhill FieldCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.294 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (West) Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Ferrybridge
Map Ref: SE47342449
Latitude: 53.714687N Longitude: 1.284188W
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 |
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Tumulus (now destroyed) in Yorkshire (West)
This tumulus, now destroyed, is recorded on The Northern Antiquarian website; see their entry for Angel Moon Field, Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire, which also includes a plan of the tumulus and a drawing from 1871 of one of the urns found in the mound (see below).
Pastscape Monument No. 54385 describes several features on this site, including "a large tumulus, still 54 ft in diameter in Roundhill Field on left of road from Ferrybridge to Castleford, opened in the 19th century and excavated in 1866 by Canon Greenwell. It contained an Early Bronze Age cist burial with beaker and food vessels, Mid Bronze Age cinerary urns, and at least two Anglian burials" and:
"Two Bronze Age barrows excavated April, 1962, by A. L. Paccitto. The first consisted of two conccentric ring ditches 55' and 75' in diameter, and have been previously excavated ...... the second had the remains of a ring ditch 25' in diameter and contained an inhumation in a central grave, accompanied by a flint dagger of EBA type."
The Pastscape record continues: "The published barrow has been obliterated by the construction of temporary buildings associated with the construction of a new power station. The precise site of the second, excavated by Paccitto, was indicated at SE 47332444 by Mr. D. Townsend. Its position has now, however, been levelled for development and no trace remains. Mr Townsend states that the finds from the second barrow will be displayed in the power station when completed."
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