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Facing SSW the barrow can faintly be seen in the centre of the field.

Closer view of Round Hill – which still remains quite a reasonable size.

Round Hill (Roxton) – riddled with rabbit holes and planted with a covering of Alder trees.

One of the many tumuli of the area. This one Lies within the gallops (old racecourse site) on the land above Fairies Parlour at SE 521837, bearing a triangulation marker indicating a height of 324m.

A view across Happy Valley. On the right is Hood Hill and on the left is the bottomless Lake Gormire.

Hood Hill from Sutton Brow.

Taken from Sutton Brow across Happy Valley, the left of this picture shows Roulston Scar. The flat top is the Yorkshire Gliding Club, but was once part of the massive “for show only” hill fort complex. It dominates the area. Across The Devil’s Leap is Hood Hill.

View Westwards from within ditch section of remnants of the fortification.

View Eastwards from within ditch section of remnants of the fortification.

View along the barrow. Not overly obvious, although when compared with the rest of the terrain it is very different. Now overgrown and riddled with burrows, this particular area felt very strange indeed, very heavy and not at all like the other mound we encountered.

We stumbled on this raised circular mound. It is the most obvious in this particular area, much more so than the long barrow.

Another view from within the plantation site, showing some stones which though now disturbed gave the distinct impression of having once been significantly arranged.

Now the plantation has been mostly harvested many more stones are revealed, the larger ones in the picture seemed to form part of a circle on the opposite side of the wall to the more obvious arrangement.

With the sun setting in the right and the moon rising in the left, and no instruction book for the camera, I’m afraid I’ve had to up the contrast on brightness on this one to show anything.
There are two stones just by the hole in the wall.