<< Our Photo Pages >> Burton Moor - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Yorkshire (North)
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Multi-periodSite Name: Burton MoorCountry: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Richmond Nearest Village: West Burton
Map Ref: SE03118604
Latitude: 54.270006N Longitude: 1.953748W
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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This settlement sits on the west side of Penhill, overlooking the dales villages of Aysgarth & West Burton.
Not an awful lot appears to be written about it, yet it is a truly magnificent site. Robert White, who is the Senior Conservation Archaeologist of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, refers to it as being, “may be Bronze Age in date” in his book, “The Yorkshire Dales A Landscape Through Time”.
The settlement seems to consist of 2 parts, a habited area to the east & a larger area containing field systems to the west. The habited area has about 14 relatively small curvilinear enclosures all grouped together forming a nucleated pattern. Within these small enclosures & incorporated into the walling are numerous small circular features, thought to be hut circles. The size of these hut circles varies from 4 to 11 metres in diameter. Robert White quotes 14 such structures in his book, but using aerial photographs & site visits, I counted 26.
250 meters NW of the settlement, are the much larger enclosures of the field systems, the most distinct measuring 50 x 40 meters. Around this area a number of enclosures & a large amount of walling that has been missed, as far as official mapping is concerned. The OS map has the field system covering 350 meters, but on the ground you can track walling running nearly 1km N to S.
The 1856 OS map shows a further ancient settlement about 500 meters south of the habited area, but interestingly this settlement doesn’t appear on modern maps. The previously unmapped walling of the field systems run in the vicinity of the settlement noted in 1856. Therefore, it could be that the whole area was just one big settlement in antiquity.
Having said all this, there are some parts that sit uncomfortably in the Bronze Age, especially a small rectangular structure & a number of ruinous walls that look to be comprised of squared almost modern looking quarried stones.
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