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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Wolf Pit (Danby Rigg)Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Guisborough Nearest Village: Ainthorpe
Map Ref: NZ7051403596
Latitude: 54.422920N Longitude: 0.914738W
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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Sited on a saddle on the southern end of Danby Rigg is a bronze age flat topped barrow with a large hollow towards its north western side which is thought to have been the reason from which it derived its name, WOLF PIT
The barrow is quite large with official records stating that it is 35m in diameter with its height varying between 1 and 2m, the hollow alone is 7m in diameter and 1.5m deep.
Whilst the barrow is scheduled as an ancient monument the HERR indicates that some field investigators in the past have cast doubts on its veracity, specifically in 1974 where a field investigator declared it ‘not an antiquity’ and in 1998 where the field investigator labelled it only as a possible round barrow. My layman’s gut feeling, I tend to agree with the field investigators for no other reason that it doesn’t ‘feel’ right, or to me, even ‘look’ right for that matter.
Sources:
HERR MONUMENT 28989
Historic England LIST ENTRY 1018740
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