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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Acklam Wold CemeteryCountry: England
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County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Village: Acklamn
Map Ref: SE8027061693 Landranger Map Number: 100
Latitude: 54.044968N Longitude: 0.775608W
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| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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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 |
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The jet buttons are probably the remains of the clothes in which the dead were buried. There are also linear earthworks that are considered to be British (Wright), ie of the Iron Age. Finds have included gold necklaces, amber beads and a rich ornament for a horse's head (Mee, Wright). It is not clear which of these are from the Bronze Age and which the Iron Age. Signs of strip lynchets suggest that this was marginal (arable) land a thousand years ago (Wright). A Roman road from South Newbold to Malton crosses Acklam Wold (Margary).
Source: Geograph
Monument No. 59725 is a bowl barrow no longer visible on the ground as an earthwork. Excavated by Mortimer in 1868, he uncovered a 6 feet deep grave-pit beneath the mound associated with a sequence of four burials. The remains of an adult male lay over the top of the grave fill; at a depth of 18 inches were the remains of a child inhumation; at a depth of 3 feet was an adult female inhumation with bone pin and flint knife; and near the bottom was a mature adult male with a flint dagger in one hand, accompanied by a Beaker, jet and amber buttons, a jet ring, a flint knife, a bone pin and a lump of iron pyrites. According to Mortimer, the mound was primarily of chalk and was surrounded by a ditch circa 50 feet in diameter (centre to centre), 2 feet deep, 5 feet wide at the bottom and 10 feet wide at the top.
Source: Pastscape
Note: Dying embers: fire-lighting technology and mortuary practice in early Bronze Age Britain. See the comment on our page for more.
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