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Submitted by Anne T on Tuesday, 11 April 2017 Page Views: 2274
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Three Howes Rigg (West) Alternative Name: Three Howes West (Smeathorns)Country: England
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County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Guisborough Nearest Village: Castleton
Map Ref: NZ68101027
Latitude: 54.483217N Longitude: 0.950403W
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Anne T visited on 9th Apr 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Three Howes Rigg (West), Smeathorns Road, North Yorkshire: Despite being called ‘Three Howes’, there are actual 5 barrows in total! It would be easy to whizz by these barrows, as they appear as slight mounds at the top of the ridge. With cars speeding by at a good 60mph or so, it’s difficult to slow down and park, but there is a space between the two barrows on the western side of the road, flanked by large boulders to protect the fourth and fifth barrows.
Once identified, they are obvious in the landscape. Having first stopped at White Cross some 500 metres to the north, being on access land, we tramped over the heather and moorland to take a closer look.
We started with the two barrows to the west of the road and worked our way northwards. The northern-most has been cut slightly by the road to its eastern side; the southern-most was heavily covered in calf-high bracken. We missed the inscribed stone in the middle of this one, but the carving seems to be relatively modern, looking at the Historic England entry.
Part of a set of five round barrows sitting on the top of Three Howes Rigg, these two barrows sit on the western side of the Smeathorns Road from the A171 leading to Castleton. To avoid confusion of too many sites in the same vicinity, the other three are described on Three Howes Rigg (East).
Sited at NZ 68106 10279 and NZ 68109 10242 and scheduled together as Historic England List Entry 1018768: "the two round barrows (lie) 560m SSE of White Cross (and) are centred 40m apart and lie just west of the road to Castleton from White Cross. The northern barrow is 18m in diameter and 1.7m high with a slightly dished top so that the centre is 0.4m below the highest point. The southern barrow is 17m in diameter sited on slightly sloping ground so that it is 0.5m high on the northern side, 1.5m high on the southern side. It is surrounded by a 6m wide platform defined by a break of slope on the southern and western sides and by a slight ditch on the northern side. The eastern side, along with 1m-2m of the eastern edge of the barrow has been cut by the road. The surrounding platform is included in the scheduling. The top of the barrow has an irregular depression up to 0.6m deep with a small upright stone on its eastern lip. This stone is 0.35m by 0.1m with 0.8m exposed above the ground. The stone is orientated so that the larger faces point roughly east and west, with the west face slightly southwards. The stone is inscribed in three places, each to different depths and weathered to different degrees, implying the inscriptions are of different dates."
It is easy, when driving past at speed along Smeathorns Road, to dismiss these as spoil from road building, but if stopping to look at Three Howes Rigg (East), it is well worth crossing the road to take a look.
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