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East side. Like so many barrows on the Moors this one’ll look at its photogenic peak when the heather’s ablaze in August
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The north side. The concrete track leads to what was a precursor to Fylingdales early warning system.
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Why have this place on TMA? The seabirds, that’s why. The Scots still go after young gannets – guga – today in one location. They can be dried and stored. Plus there’s the puffins and pufflings in their cliff edge burrows. A foodsource for millennia doubtless, worth risking necks for at times...
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I LOVE this stone...thanks for the add, Fitzcorraldo. Totally worth hunting this one down.
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N side seen from the Lealholm Rigg track looking towards Eskdale
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Warsett Hill seen from ten miles south at Danby Beacon...as much a significant skyline feature and focal point as the latter. That it has a barrow cemetery is entirely understandable.
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View N downslope towards Saltburn...possible interment sites visible
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Looking NW along the edge of the hilltop
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Looking down the slope on the southern side ...perhaps degraded barrows near the coast?
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Looking NW towards Herd Howe bowl barrow, L distant
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Freebrough Hill seen from the top of Herd Howe bowl barrow
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The top of the barrow. It is officially classified as a bowl barrow but as this category doesn’t exist on TMA I’ve had to enter it as a round barrow. It dates from the Bronze Age.
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