The heather moorland between Commondale and Guisborough are among the quietest on the North York Moors yet it is rife with prehistoric remains, round burial barrows, ancient field systems and a cross ridge dyke marked by this alignment of standing stones. The dyke is a Middle Bronze Age earthwork, a little over 400m long and comprising a bank and ditch. It is thought the standing stones were once more numerous and predate the earthwork, probably a boundary demarcating a tribe’s land at a time when the moors were more forested.
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