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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Howe Hill (Felixkirk)Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Round Barrow(s)
Map Ref: SE46738463
Latitude: 54.255219N Longitude: 1.284225W
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Anne T visited on 26th Sep 2014 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Howe Hill Round Barrow, Felixkirk: After having been to Pudding Pie Hill Round Barrow in Sowerby, we drove to the village of Felixkirk from the A170, up the first minor road leading north east. There is no doubt that Howe Hill is something ancient – but what? My initial impression, driving up the hill into the village was that it was a motte, but then it’s too small for a castle.
Howe Hill is immediately opposite the Carpenter’s Arms public house, which has a large car park, and the Howe Hill mound rises up above you. As it is topped by a very large tree, the mound seems to dominate everything around it (in a nice sort of way).
It is possible to sit outside the pub to have a meal and a drink and admire Howe Hill. It being now early evening and getting chilly, we sat inside and had a drink, looking out onto the mound, waiting for the angle of the sun to dip below the mound so I could get some photographs.
However – the monument has sort of been developed around in a somewhat insensitive manner - someone’s driveway (the Old Vicarage? Now up for sale) up its left hand side (facing from the pub), also someone has used the southern side of the mound to burn old tree trunks, which has left a mess. There’s also a road junction with numerous signposts to the northern end of the barrow and the right hand side been landscaped into edge of someone’s drive, but it is still recognisable as an ancient site.
The English Heritage record (not to be confused with How Hill, west of Richmond, North Yorkshire) says that this is a bowl barrow, dating from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age.
St Felix Church is only a short distance away (different web sites vary between 130 and 200 yards!). Apart from the sheep keeping the grass short in the church yard (this did keep the graveyard looking very neat) and the remains of the Norman windows in the chancel, this church had been extensively modernised, and I was disappointed.
In my opinion, Howe Hill is only worth stopping to look at if you are passing by. Sorry!
"A bowl barrow at Howe Hill 130m SSW of St Felix's Church. The barrow is 10m in diameter and about 1.5m in height. Any quarry ditch has been infilled over the years, the ditch is estimated by comparison with known examples to be about 2m wide, thus giving the monument a total diameter of 14m. Some recent maps refer to the barrow as a motte, but this description is now considered erroneous."
Source: Pastscape.
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