Willy Howe

Large Neolithic round barrow in the Yorkshire Wolds, standing 7.5m high and 40m in diameter between Wold Newton and Burton Fleming. Excavated by Lord Londesborough (1857) and Canon Greenwell (1887), neither found burials, though a rock-cut shaft was discovered beneath the center, similar to nearby Duggleby Howe. The site is associated with 12th-century fairy folklore recorded by William of Newburgh, describing a villager who witnessed people feasting inside the mound. It is a Scheduled Monument and one of the largest surviving barrows in eastern England.