What is recorded here
Bronze Age round cairn, Howden Hill is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
Bronze Age round cairn, Howden Hill is a circular stone burial monument dating to the Bronze Age (c. 2500–800 BCE). Such cairns are significant as they provide insight into early funerary practices and social organisation in prehistoric Britain.
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Places near here
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Photo: Andrew Curtis · CC BY-SA 2.0