Four bowl barrows | scheduled ancient monument

 bowl barrow, scheduled ancient monument

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The monument includes four adjacent bowl barrows situated on the south eastern slopes of Deepdale Wold, an area known as Uncleby Stoop. These barrows also lie 90m east of the later Roman road between Malton and Brough; the distribution of Neolithic and Bronze Age burial mounds parallel to the road is evidence that the Romans were continuing to use an established prehistoric route across the Wolds.

Although altered by agricultural activity, the barrows are all still visible as earthworks and the infilled ditches which surround the mounds have been identified on aerial photographs. The northwesternmost barrow has a mound 1.5m high and 24m in diameter; a ditch 37m in diameter surrounds the mound. Immediately to the east of this is a smaller barrow whose mound, 0.5m high and 20m diameter, has gradually spread to cover its 18m diameter ditch. J R Mortimer, describing the barrows in the 1860s, stated that these two were so closely spaced that their mounds appeared as a single tumulus.

About 60m to the south east of the above, the third barrow is visible as a 1m high mound, 33m in diameter. This mound has also spread to cover its surrounding ditch, which is 22m in diameter.

The fourth barrow lies 80m north east of the third; its mound is 0.3m high and 28m in diameter and has spread over its 22m diameter ditch.

The barrows were recorded and partially excavated by Mortimer in 1865 and 1869; he discovered a number of burials, some in pits cut into the ground beneath the mounds.

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