In J.R. Mortimer's lengthy essay on Duggleby (1905) - also known as just Howe Hill - he propounds the thought, based on the findings here, that it was once a Moot Hill, or meeting place of local tribal elders. As the mound stands at the centre of a gigantic henge (unknown to Mortimer in his days), the function of a meeting place seems more probable. The very word howe also increases the likelihood as it commonly doubles-up as meaning a moot hill in various parts of northern England. (Gomme 1880) Mortimer also told that there was once a wooden cross standing atop of this great mound, which he thinks was preceeded by a stone one.
Ref:
Gomme, G.L. Primitive Folk-Moots, Sampson Lowe: London 1880.
Mortimer, J.R., Forty Years Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire, A.Brown: London 1905, p.26
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