A Bronze Age burial mound and possible territorial marker. A large standing stone can be seen on the left. The has been excavated and is capped by a modern cairn. It stands on a slight rise, with a prominence of a mere 12m, on a ridge of Gisborough Moor, overlooking Sleddale.
Round Barrow, Codhill Heights
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Couple of weeks time the NYMP volunteers will be up there doing some work. I quote-
“Task to take down and move a walkers’ cairn built on top of a round barrow on Gisborough Moor. This will help stop walkers inadvertently taking stones from the circa. 4000 year old funerary barrow to build the modern walkers’ cairn.” -
[…] A photo I posted earlier this year was of the round barrow at Codhill Heights, an inconspicuous 296-metre high summit on the ridge behind Highcliff Nab. Over the years a cairn has been built over the barrow which dates to around 2,000 BC. The National Park has now removed this “modern” cairn exposing some original kerbstones and a large partially buried upright boulder. However, the removal has also revealed a large lump of concrete set against the boulder. The concrete has a hole, perhaps for a post and the initials “T.P.” and “C.S.” with the date “11/11/43”, all impressed before the concrete had set. All very curious. The 11th of November is, of course, Armistice Day, maybe not significant. Open Space Web-Map builder Code //declare marker variables var pos, size, offset, infoWindowAnchor, icon, content, popUpSize; function initmapbuilder() { //initiate the map var options = {resolutions: [2500, 1000, 500, 200, 100, 50, 25, 10, 5, 4, 2.5, 2, 1]}; osMap = new OpenSpace.Map(‘map’, options); //configure map options (basicmap.js) setglobaloptions(); //set the center of the map and the zoom level osMap.setCenter(new OpenSpace.MapPoint(461380,512685),7); // add a marker pos = new OpenSpace.MapPoint(461357.5,512680); size = new OpenLayers.Size(33,45); offset = new OpenLayers.Pixel(-16,-36); infoWindowAnchor = new OpenLayers.Pixel(16,16); icon = new OpenSpace.Icon(‘https://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/osmapapi/img_versions/img_1.0.1/OS/images/markers/marker_red.png', size, offset, null, infoWindowAnchor); osMap.createMarker(pos, icon, null, null);} […]
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