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<< Our Photo Pages >> Danby Beacon - Round Barrow(s) in England in Yorkshire (North)
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Submitted by JimChampion on Thursday, 30 July 2009 Page Views: 5716
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England
Site Name: Danby Beacon Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Village: Danby
Map Ref: NZ73600927
Latitude: 54.473465N Longitude: 0.865778W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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Round Barrow in North Yorkshire
A 22 metre diameter stone and earthen mound, standing up to 2.5 metres high.
By virtue of its position on top of a prominent hill (now called Beacon Hill) this barrow has been re-used since early post-medieval times as a beacon site. Modern-day visitors to the site will find a five metre tall beacon sculpture rising out of the centre of the barrow, erected in 2008 by the Danby Beacon Trust (and replacing an earlier wooden post that supported a beacon during the 1988 celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada). At the top of the steel column is a flame-shaped basket mounted in a cup decorated with bronze - a reference to the prehistoric monument below.
Access The barrow is alongside a minor road on Beacon Hill and there is an adjacent parking area marked as a 'viewpoint' on maps. There are fantastic views from this barrow of the North York Moors and the North Yorkshire coast (weather permitting!).
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 Danby Beacon submitted by JimChampion
This barrow really isn't hard to find - its is on a bend in the road, next to a car park, signposted on the top of a 300 metre hill, close to a white-painted triangulation pillar and, best of all, it has a five-metre tall metal beacon sculpture sticking out of it.
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