Howe Hill, Newby

Nearest town:
Guisborough (10km ENE)
OS reference:
NZ513111
OS sheet:
93
Latitude:
54° 29' 32.62 N
Longitude:
1° 12' 28.53 W
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Image of Howe Hill, Newby (Round Barrow(s)) by fitzcoraldo

Howe Hill Barrow with one of those tube-streamer things stuck on top.

Image credit: fitzcoraldo
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fitzcoraldo Jan 10, 2003

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Howe Hill, Newby

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fitzcoraldo Jan 7, 2003

This is a pretty unremarkable round barrow. It is however significant that it was one of very few barrow that have been found in the vale of Cleveland. The hills and moors around the area are dotted with barrows but the lowlands contain very few. This could be due to the ploughing- out of sites. There is evidence in local place names that barrows did exist elsewhere in the Tees valley e.g., Ingleby Greenhow, Sexhow.

Miscellaneous

Howe Hill, Newby
Round Barrow(s)
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Jan 7, 2003

Following the below extract graves speculates that the Battle of Bardon-Hill may have taken place in this area. This is Stanhope Whites reply to that.
“There is one possiblity, unknown to Graves; that this is not the site of the Battle of Bardon-Hill but of the so-called Battle of Catterick. If the band of heroes from Manau Gododin had sheltered in the ruins of the Roman town whilst they drank for a year, then their last hopeless battle against the Saxons may well have been to the east, towards the coast. Unfortunately for us, Polydore Vergil was allowed to ship all his working papers to Rome, and with them went perhaps many written sources of the period, which are now lost. Instead of speculating about Arthur, modern historians might be better occupied searching in some mouldering archives in Rome for these early accounts”.
The North York Moors
Stanhope White
1979

Miscellaneous

Howe Hill, Newby
Round Barrow(s)
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Jan 7, 2003

Graves had this to say in his 1808 book The History of Cleveland.
“Within this township, and nearly at an equal distance between the villages of Seamer and Newby, there is a remarkable tumulus, significantly called HOW-HILL, which is not known to have ever been opened. In the fields adjoining towards the south, on the side of a hill, are evident marks of entrenchment; and in the valley or plain beneath, it is reported that armour, swords and human bones have been frequently turned up by the plough.”

Miscellaneous

Howe Hill, Newby
Round Barrow(s)
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Jan 7, 2003

Ord had this to say in his History and Antiquities of Cleveland, published in 1846.
“The parish of Seamer contains several objects of antiquarian interest. The most important is How Hill, a large tumulus, half way between the villages of Seamer and Newby, close to a farmhouse, the property of Colonel Wyndham. This is, perhapsthe most complete of the Cleveland tumuli; but whether Celtic, Roman, or Saxon, we have no sense of judging, not having had the opportunity of exploring the interior. he tenant assured us that some years ago he assisted in partially examining this ancient memorial, but found nothing except large masses of freestone, with fragments of bones”.

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