Bowl barrow

 bowl barrow, scheduled ancient monument

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The monument includes a bowl barrow which is one of several situated on the south eastern spur of Deepdale Wold. This barrow also lies 50m 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 barrow is still visible as a flinty mound 1m high and 25m in diameter, its height being accentuated by its location on a slight natural rise. A ditch of 28m diameter surrounds the mound and, although it has become infilled over the years and is no longer visible at ground level, this ditch has been identified on aerial photographs. The barrow was recorded and partially excavated by J R Mortimer in 1864 and again in 1868; two graves, each about 0.5m deep and containing two burials, were found along with a burial placed beneath the mound on a stone floor.