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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pudding Pie HillCountry: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Thirsk Nearest Village: Sowerby
Map Ref: SE437810
Latitude: 54.222865N Longitude: 1.331258W
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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Chappers60 visited on 1st Feb 2025 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4
Catrinm visited on 12th Oct 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Access: 5
Anne T visited on 26th Sep 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Pudding Pie Hill, Sowerby near Thirsk: From St Mary The Virgin at Leake, we headed south to Thirsk, leaving the A19 at its junction with the A168 to get as close as we could to Pudding Pie Hill.
It wasn’t possible to get to the round barrow from this direction, as there are all private roads leading to houses and small holdings, so we tried driving back into Thirsk and back round to Sowerby.
I always like coming to Thirsk, but never been to Sowerby, and it’s a really quaint little village. Blakey Bridge was closed to traffic so we walked across, through the field with Cod Beck to our right hand side.
The barrow rises up out of what appears to be the flood plain for the Cod Beck. If it weren’t for the very busy A168 roaring past on the eastern side, this barrow would be in a lovely spot indeed.
There is an information board by the footpath leading up to the barrow which explains something of the history and has old photographs of children on the barrow.
We walked up to the top of the mound, and there is indeed a hollow where they excavated it in the nineteenth century.
The ditch around the mound can be seen to its eastern and southern sides. Definitely worth coming to visit briefly.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 4.33
Pudding Pie Hill is a large bowl barrow dating from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age, 2400-1500 BC, according to the information board on site. Little remains of the ditch. An indentation on the summit is the consequence of a nineteenth century attempt at excavation. This found the remains of three male skeletons dated to the 6th century AD, showing re-use of the site in the early mediaeval period. It now lies immediately adjacent to the Thirsk bypass (A19), and planning has recently been granted for a large housing development in nearby fields, thus accounting for the relatively low ambience rating. Well worth a visit nevertheless.
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