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moss Aug 13, 2010 13:36:51
Replying to Chris Collyer

Reading the planning application it says that there are two square I/A burial mounds nearby, must be the 'chariot' ones, because the deserted medieval Arras village is there as well, so its an important site archaeologically. Whether the wind turbines affects them I don't know, why does the farmer want two any way?
Probably best to keep an eye on it, it looks like neolithic, bronze and iron age barrows all very near to each other - weird...

C Chris Collyer
Chris Collyer Aug 13, 2010 14:13:34
Replying to moss

Quick and dirty post showing the location of crop marks and what may be the two IA square barrows plus some other bits and pieces -

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/89863/east_riding_of_yorkshire.html

moss wrote:
Whether the wind turbines affects them I don't know, why does the farmer want two any way?
It might be suggested that he gets paid for supplying energy into the National Grid... (choses words carefully). May just be to supply power for the farm though.

moss wrote:
it looks like neolithic, bronze and iron age barrows all very near to each other - weird...
Not weird in East Yorks though, there is a real continuation of land use plus so much has survived either as crop marks or documented evidence. To take Rudston as a well known example there are long barrows, a henge, cursuses, round barrows, square barrows, boundaries and field systems, and that bloody great big stone all within a few of miles of each other (and a Roman villa too).

-Chris