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<< Other Photo Pages >> Folkton Round Barrow - Round Barrow(s) in England in Yorkshire (North)

Submitted by vicky on Friday, 04 January 2019  Page Views: 10366

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Folkton Round Barrow Alternative Name: The Folkton Drum, Folkton Drums
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.2 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Round Barrow(s)

Map Ref: TA059778  Landranger Map Number: 101
Latitude: 54.185052N  Longitude: 0.3787W
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Folkton Round Barrow
Folkton Round Barrow submitted by dodomad : Folkton Drum The Folkton Drums (information from www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_object... ) Late Neolithic period, 2600-2000 BC Found in East Yorkshire, England Mysterious grave goods: These objects were found by Canon William Greenwell in 1889 when he opened a round barrow on Folkton Wold. They had been placed behind the head and hips of the body of a child... (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Folkton Drums were found by Canon William Greenwell in 1889 when he opened this round barrow on Folkton Wold, North Yorkshire. They had been placed behind the head and hips of the body of a child in an oval grave close to the outer of two concentric ditches. Several other bodies shared the monument, these dating to the Late Neolithic period, 2600-2000 BC.

The custom of burying individuals with 'special' grave goods had begun by about 3000 BC. This grave offering is exceptional (the drums are unique) and must indicate something about the status of the child.

The drums are made from local chalk and are elaborately carved, using a technique very like that of chip-carving used by woodworkers. No other objects like them survive, but perhaps equivalent items were made of wood and have not survived. We do not know how they were used.

The decoration is organized in panels; stylized human faces look out from two of the drums. The significance of the designs is unknown to us, though they are very similar to those found on pottery of the Later Neolithic Grooved Ware style. The geometric patterns recall Beaker pottery and Early Bronze Age sheet goldwork decorated in the same vein.

2019 update: The chalk drums from Folkton and Lavant: Measuring devices from the time of Stonehenge? A fascination paper on chalk drums which proposes they were part of a standardised measuring system - the 'long foot'. More details in the comments below.
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Folkton Round Barrow
Folkton Round Barrow submitted by dodomad : Folkton Drum The Folkton Drums (information from www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_object... ) Late Neolithic period, 2600-2000 BC Found in East Yorkshire, England Mysterious grave goods: These objects were found by Canon William Greenwell in 1889 when he opened a round barrow on Folkton Wold. They had been placed behind the head and hips of the body of a child... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Folkton Round Barrow
Folkton Round Barrow submitted by dodomad : Folkton Drums The Folkton Drums (information from www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_object... ) Late Neolithic period, 2600-2000 BC Found in East Yorkshire, England Mysterious grave goods: These objects were found by Canon William Greenwell in 1889 when he opened a round barrow on Folkton Wold. They had been placed behind the head and hips of the body of a chil... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Folkton Round Barrow
Folkton Round Barrow submitted by Bladup : The now destroyed barrow that had the drums in was once found in front and to the left of the clump of trees on the left horizon. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Burton Agnes drum discovery by Andy B on Friday, 11 February 2022
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Ancient sculpture is ‘most important prehistoric art find in UK for a century’
5,000-year-old chalk drum decorated with motifs was discovered in Burton Agnes in East Yorkshire alongside burial of three children

A 5,000-year-old chalk sculpture discovered in east Yorkshire, due to be displayed at the British Museum, has been described as the most important piece of prehistoric art to be found in Britain in the last century.

The object, a Burton Agnes drum, is a chalk sculpture which had been decorated with motifs similar to the artistic style at the same time as Stonehenge was built. The drum was discovered alongside the burial of three children.

The drum is hailed to be such an important discovery due to its similarity to a group of objects already in the British Museum’s collection.

The Folkton drums, three barrel-shaped cylinders made of chalk, were found in North Yorkshire buried alongside the remains of a child, and have been part of the British Museum’s collection since 1889. They are, according to the British Museum, some of the “most famous and enigmatic ancient objects ever unearthed in Britain”.

Relatively little is known about the Folkton drums and their context but this new drum, which was found about 15 miles away, sheds new light on them. The exact age of the Folkton drums was never known, with a consensus guess that they were made around 2500 – 2000BC. However, due to new technology and the finding of the new drum, the Folkton drums can be identified as being nearly 500 years older than previously thought.

This new discovery, only the fourth example of its kind known to have survived, is nearly identical to the Folkton drums and can also be described as a chalk drum.

Despite the use of the term ‘drum’, they are not thought to have had a musical function. Instead, they are works of sculptural art, and have been interpreted to be intended as talismans to protect the deceased children they accompanied.

The Burton Agnes drum is due to be displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday, alongside all three Folkton drums, as part of the World of Stonehenge exhibition at the British Museum.

The World of Stonehenge exhibition at the British Museum, on display until mid-July 2022, is the UK’s first major exhibition on Stonehenge. Nearly two-thirds of the objects on display will be loaned from 35 lenders across several different countries, including Germany, Denmark and Italy.

Read more here
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/feb/10/ancient-sculpture-is-most-important-prehistoric-art-find-in-uk-for-century
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Folkton drums by drolaf on Tuesday, 30 April 2019
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There is no evidence of winding a string around the barrels, which would destroy the carvings, and would not give the precise measurements proposed. The ‘long’ and ‘short’ feet were obtained from imposing concentric circles on sites such as Durrington South, which appears to be made of linear and polygonal sections, of varying dates, and the circles do not fit well to this multi-phase set of rows and polygons. At Stonehenge some of the model circles do not match any structural features.

Teather, Chamberlain and Parker Pearson have made the common mistake of forming a theory then looking for evidence to fit it. Science does the opposite: looks at the evidence and forms optional theories. Up in Yorkshire we politely request that said ‘researchers’ keep their daft theories in Wiltshire and leave our barrels alone.

You can read more about the scaling construction system possibly used in the Neolithic at
http://www.academia.edu/38998211/Simple_solutions_for_Neolithic_construction_part_2_The_use_of_scaling_macro_and_micro
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The chalk drums from Folkton / Lavant: Measuring devices from the time of Stonehenge? by Andy B on Friday, 04 January 2019
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This paper on Chalk drums which proposes they were part of a standardised measuring system of the 'long foot' was open access in 2019 but sadly not any more.

The chalk drums from Folkton and Lavant: Measuring devices from the time of Stonehenge - Anne Teather, Andrew Chamberlain & Mike Parker Pearson

Investigating knowledge of mathematics and the use of standard units of measurement in prehistoric societies is a difficult task. For the British Neolithic period (4000–2500 bc), attempts to refine our understanding of mathematical knowledge for this period have been largely unsuccessful until now. Following recent research, we propose that there is a direct link between the design of the monument of Stonehenge and the chalk artefacts known as the Folkton and Lavant Drums, in which the Drums represent measurement standards that were essential for accurate and reproducible monument construction. This has important implications for future analyses of artefacts and monuments for this period.

https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2018.1555927
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Re: Imaging the Folkton drums and other objects - Ian Dawson, Winchester School of Ar by Andy B on Friday, 20 April 2018
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More views of the drums
https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=folkton%20drums

http://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1893-1228-15
and
http://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1893-1228-16
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Recording the Folkton Drums at the British Museum by Andy B on Friday, 20 April 2018
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Dr Hannah Sackett writes: My last blog post concerned the recording and data capture of the three Neolithic artefacts known as the Folkton Drums at the British Museum. Thanks to the hard work and computing genius of Lena Kotoula and Marta Díaz-Guaramino, since then we have had time to process the data and have had some spectacular results.

Lena, Marta and I spent around six hours staring at the computer screen back in early June amazed at the results from this analysis, and picking out one feature after another that had never before been recorded.

The most spectacular results are that the base of the largest artefact, drum 1 has considerable evidence of working, with a series of parallel scratched lines, and a motif very like those found in passage graves in Orkney. Also amazing is the face of drum 2, as we found evidence of an erased ‘eyebrow’ above the central motif – this indicates clear evidence of reworking, and the removal of an earlier motif before the creation of the present motifs.

Scans at
https://prehistories.wordpress.com/tag/folkton-drums/
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Re: Imaging the Folkton drums and other objects by Andy B on Tuesday, 19 December 2017
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More on the Folkton drums and barrow here
http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/folkton.htm
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Imaging the Folkton drums and other objects - Ian Dawson, Winchester School of Art by Andy B on Sunday, 23 April 2017
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Dirty RTI - Ian Dawson, Winchester School of Art

In RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) a shadow thrown a multitude of times is used to generate complex narratives of sequencing and duration, tracing ghosts unseen by the human eye. RTI of the Folkton drums (Jones 2015), for example, revealed reworking; a surface arrived at through both carving and erasure, hinting at an open process of drawing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZG-hg_SahM

With thanks to Doug Rocks-Macqueen and team for the video
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