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Aldro earthworks: a bowl barrow on Hanging Grimston Wold 50m north-west of Stone Sleights Farm

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Aldro earthworks: a bowl barrow on Hanging Grimston Wold 50m north-west of Stone Sleights Farm
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The National Heritage List for England records Aldro earthworks: a bowl barrow on Hanging Grimston Wold 50m north-west of Stone Sleights Farm as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Aldro earthworks is a bowl barrow, a type of prehistoric burial monument, likely dating to the early medieval or earlier periods. While primarily associated with funerary use, such mounds sometimes feature in local folklore as sites of fairy or otherworldly activity.

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Photo: DS Pugh · CC BY-SA 2.0