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<< Our Photo Pages >> Horn Ridge (Farndale) - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Yorkshire (North)

Submitted by johndhunter on Thursday, 19 July 2018  Page Views: 1310

Multi-periodSite Name: Horn Ridge (Farndale)
Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Church Houses
Map Ref: SE6600996306
Latitude: 54.358018N  Longitude: 0.985773W
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
 no data Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 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
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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
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Horn Ridge (Farndale)
Horn Ridge (Farndale) submitted by johndhunter : View of the dykes ditch and embankment taken from the north side looking towards Blakey Ridge , June 2016 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Historic England List Entry Number 1019969 describes this site as follows: The monument includes earthwork and associated buried remains of a group of prehistoric features on Horn Ridge. The earthworks include a cross dyke, a bank and ditch that crosses the spine of the ridge, an area of clearance cairns forming a cairnfield, a funerary round cairn, and at least two hut circles . Full details of these features can be found under the List Entry.

The main visible feature, the cross dyke is quite distinct. According to Historic England it is over 250 metres long, formed by a bank typically 2 metres high and 4m – 6m wide, with a mainly silted up ditch on its northern side which is around 3m wide. It completely cuts off the end of the ridge. At the approximate centre of this cut off area is a funerary round cairn 15m in diameter and 0.8 m high.

It is well worth the walk to this site because you also have the added bonus of extensive views of Farndale and the surrounding area, especially if you visit on a bright summers day as I did
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Horn Ridge (Farndale)
Horn Ridge (Farndale) submitted by johndhunter : View of the top of the Funerary Round Cairn at SE 66198 96223, viewed looking in the direction of Blakey Ridge , photo taken June 2016 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Horn Ridge (Farndale)
Horn Ridge (Farndale) submitted by johndhunter : Funerary Round Cairn towards the centre of the cut off area at SE 66198 96223 viewed looking southerly, photo taken June 2016 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Horn Ridge (Farndale)
Horn Ridge (Farndale) submitted by johndhunter : Funerary Round Cairn towards the centre of the cut off area at SE 66198 96223 viewed looking towards Blakey Ridge, photo taken June 2016 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Horn Ridge (Farndale)
Horn Ridge (Farndale) submitted by johndhunter : Overall view of Horn Ridge taken June 2016 from nearby the Golden Heights Ring Cairn on Rudland Rigg. This gives a good idea of the location that the Settlement was in. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Horn Ridge (Farndale)
Horn Ridge (Farndale) submitted by johndhunter : View towards the western end of the dyke before it drops down into west Gill. Taken June 2016 looking towards Rudland Rigg (Vote or comment on this photo)

Horn Ridge (Farndale)
Horn Ridge (Farndale) submitted by johndhunter : View of the dykes ditch and embankment taken from the north side looking towards Rudland Rigg , June 2016

Horn Ridge (Farndale)
Horn Ridge (Farndale) submitted by johndhunter : View of the eastern end of the dyke where it starts to go down into Farndale. Taken June 2106 looking towards Blakey Ridge

Horn Ridge (Farndale)
Horn Ridge (Farndale) submitted by johndhunter : View of the dyke’s embankment cutting across Horn Ridge taken from the cut off area looking north, June 2016

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Re: Horn Ridge (Farndale) by johndhunter on Friday, 21 September 2018
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It looks like at one time this site was regarded as a hillfort. In CBA Research Report No.87 - Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology of North East Yorkshire, , Vol. BAR 104, (Revised to 1990) edited by D.A Spratt (page 123). They list four sites as definite hillforts in this area , Eston Nab Fort, Boltby hillfort, the small promontory fort on Live Moor, the promontory fort at Roulston Scar and then they list this site as as possible one. However they then go on to say on page 128 and I quote ““There is some debate whether the rampart may be a cross-ridge dyke similar to others on the North Yorkshire Moors” It looks like the cross-ridge dyke side won and is listed as such in CBA Research Report 101 - Moorland Monuments: Studies in the archaeology of North East Yorkshire in honour of Raymond Hayes and Don Spratt (1995) Page 28. Subsequently both Historic England and Pastscape list it as a cross-ridge dyke
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