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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Yarnbury Henge
Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Henge
Nearest Town: Grassington  Nearest Village: Yarnbury
Map Ref: SE0140665415  Landranger Map Number: 98
Latitude: 54.084648N  Longitude: 1.980001W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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drolaf visited on 3rd Oct 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4

BolshieBoris visited on 1st Jan 1983 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Right next to the road.



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 4.5

Yarnbury Henge
Yarnbury Henge submitted by stu : SE01428 65364. The pocket sized henge at Yarnbury. 30m in diameter with shallow ditch and low bank. Damaged entrance in south. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Henge in West Yorkshire

The pocket sized henge at Yarnbury is 30m in diameter with shallow ditch and low bank. It has a damaged entrance to the south.

Update January 2018: This henge is scheduled as Historic England List ID 1008877, which reads: "The well preserved henge monument at Yarnbury is situated on a slight south east facing gradient 400m north east of Mire House. It includes a circular ditch with an external bank and entrance causeway on the south east side. The central enclosure has an approximate diameter of 20m by 22m with the surrounding rock cut ditch 3.5m wide and 0.25m deep. The outer turf covered stony bank is 3m-4m wide with a maximum height of 0.5m. The single clearly defined causeway entrance has a width of approximately 2m. An area about 10m in diameter to the north of the entrance has been destroyed by modern quarrying; this has sectioned the bank exposing its earth and stone structure. There is a slight mutilation to the bank and ditch about 2m to the west of the entrance and the entrance causeway itself has sustained damage on its south side. The monument was partially excavated in 1964 by Mr D Dymond of the Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England."

The site is also recorded as Pastscape Monument 48403 and is featured on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their entry for Yarnbury Henge, Grassington, North Yorkshire. TNA gives directions for finding this site, together with photographs and a brief archaeology & history. TNA quotes from John Dixon (1990), saying: “the sun falls behind Pendle (Hill) providing it with a sky-red backdrop. In my own view the site is related to the presence of Pendle…and may have been the major factor in the location of the monument.”
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Yarnbury Henge submitted by WindC : It's grassy mound's swirl echoes Hebden Moor to the East. 6 November, 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yarnbury Henge submitted by rich32 : Yarnbury henge, nr Grassington, Nrth Yorks (SE014653) 2 photos badly welded together (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yarnbury Henge submitted by DavidRaven : (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Yarnbury Henge
Yarnbury Henge submitted by rich32 : Yanrbury henge, nr Grassington, Nrth Yorks (SE014653) Quarrying damage to the henge. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yarnbury Henge submitted by drolaf : view SE to Rombalds

Yarnbury Henge
Yarnbury Henge submitted by drolaf : view SW to Pendle hill

Yarnbury Henge
Yarnbury Henge submitted by SumDoood : Not a particularly exciting view, but this is the henge as you will see it from the signposted public footpath which crosses the field boundary at its most easterly point (which is where it meets the road). The path passes very close to the henge, so don't be timid about access. What is exciting, I think, is the fairly consistently long distance from the centre of the henge to the horizon (wh...

Yarnbury Henge
Yarnbury Henge submitted by SumDoood : Looking NNE towards the old lead mining spoil heaps. These two ditches run from W to E-ish and seem to continue a short distance beyond the field's stone wall. If you zoom in to the max on Bing's Aerial view, you will see what might be another ditch-circle abutting, or slightly covered by, the henge's construction.

Yarnbury Henge
Yarnbury Henge submitted by WindC : Looking South Easterly, over the Wharfedale Valley. 6 November, 2011.

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Re: Yarnbury Henge by drolaf on Friday, 30 October 2020
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just a short walk along the lane from car park, and then over the field.
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Re: Yarnbury Henge by drolaf on Wednesday, 03 October 2018
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A lovely little henge and a grand site. The henge is on a plateau on a lower southern spur of Great Whernside. It has long distance views SW to Pendle 19 miles and SE to Rombalds moor 12 miles. The henge entrance is about ESE. The ditch is rock cut like many other henges (a significant endeavour).
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Excavation of an Early Neolithic house and other features at Yarnbury henge by Andy B on Friday, 21 July 2017
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Excavation of an Early Neolithic house and other features at Yarnbury henge, West Yorkshire (2013 and 2014)

Alex Gibson writes: The geophysical survey at Threshfield revealed two henges with an internal ditch, external bank and a second, narrower ditch on the outside.

The Neolithic house and the newly discovered henges clearly add significantly to our knowledge of the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of the Yorkshire Dales. Little work has been done on this period in this part of the Pennines other than at cave sites, and as more attention is given to the region and as more potential sites come to light, the Dales may prove to have been pivotal in facilitating contacts between east and west and the movement of Yorkshire flint and Cumbrian axes. The Yorkshire Dales currently appear as somewhat of a blank spot in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age distribution maps but this may be more apparent than rea.

p.10 here
http://www.prehistoricsociety.org/files/PAST_78_for_web.pdf
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    Re: Excavation of an Early Neolithic house and other features at Yarnbury henge by drolaf on Saturday, 15 August 2020
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    Just to be clear, At Yarnbury there is a henge and neolithic rectangular 'house'. There are two more henges 5km further south downhill at Threshfield.
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Re: Yarnbury Henge Street View by Rich32 on Friday, 23 December 2016
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Re: Yarnbury Henge Street View by rogerkread on Friday, 11 May 2012
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Yarnbury Henge is of course in North Yorkshire these days. Somehow I'm not getting this page either via West Yorkshire or North Yorkshire county pages, only via the adjacent sites list. Is this me or the website??
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Yarnbury Henge Street View by Andy B on Tuesday, 05 July 2011
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