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Green Howe (North Deighton)

Round Barrow(s)

Fieldnotes

Details from excavation notes - May 1971 issue of the Yorkshire Arcaeological Journal;

the mound contained 16 burials, many of them children and one a fetus of 7 months under a small cairn.

in the rubble of the mound they found fragments of axe heads from the langdale and north wales neolithic axe factories, and large quantities of snail shells.
listerinepree Posted by listerinepree
24th May 2011ce

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