Duggleby Howe

Duggleby Howe is one of the largest round barrows in Britain, located in the Great Wold Valley of East Yorkshire. Dating to the Late Neolithic period (c. 3000 BC), the mound has a base diameter of 37 metres and consists of a chalk core covered by clay and an outer chalk capping. First excavated by Rev. Christopher Sykes in 1798-99, then extensively by J. R. Mortimer in 1890, the barrow contained a deep shaft grave with at least 10 adult and child skeletons. Grave goods included bone pins, a flint knife and axe, an antler mace head, a Towthorpe bowl, and Grimston-ware pottery. The barrow sits within a roughly circular interrupted ditch enclosure approximately 370 metres in diameter.