<< Our Photo Pages >> Iron Howe (Cow Ridge) - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Yorkshire (North)
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Multi-periodSite Name: Iron Howe (Cow Ridge)Country: England
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County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Village: Osmotherley
Map Ref: SE5295695291
Latitude: 54.350417N Longitude: 1.186785W
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 |
| 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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This is a bronze age settlement consisting of an extensive field system with over 300 clearance cairns and two hut circles. This is Historic England List Entry Number 1008861 and full details and description can be found there. There is an enigma about this site in that while there are numerous stone walls and clearance cairns the ground is still covered with stones. In fact the 1895 OS map calls this area Stone Folds. One of the theories in reference to these moorland field systems and cairnfields in general is that the field walls actually preceded the clearance cairns. Stone walls were built to protect the arable crops but once the soil in these upland areas started to erode more stones in the fields would be exposed and the building of clearance cairns would begin. The soil would become further impoverished , more stones exposed and eventually farming would become untenable. In other words clearance of stones was a result of soil impoverishment, rather than a precursor to it. Though both are possible.
Source for info on clearance cairns / soil erosion: CBA Research Report 87 (Revised to 1990) Page 115
This settlement covers quite a large area, the grid reference given is for the cairn just to the north of the settlement and marked as such on the OS map.
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