Newsham Abandoned Village & Metlow Hill Tumulus

Tumulus spotting trip last year to find the Bronze Age round barrow at Metlow Hill, of which there was virtually nothing left due to ploughing. I walked along the cliffs at Bempton, past the nesting gannets, kittiwakes and puffins, all around the site, which was on private farmland.  The isolated and windswept site was excavated in 1889 and held an arc of stones and a plank-lined grave with the remains of a 5 or 6 year old child, buried with a food pot, 16 flint scrapers, 3 flint saws, 3 flint knives and a broken Neolithic arrowhead. There was little to see of Newsham abandoned village, possibly disturbed during the building of the railway line. The landscape is much changed since the child was laid to rest.

 

Bartindale Abandoned Village

These drawings are from last year, when I visited the site of an abandoned medieval village near Hunmanby

 

Hunmanby Chariot Burial and Tumulus

 

Garton Slack Chariot Burial

I've not visited this site, but some of the remains are in Hull museum....I didn't see the chariot. The chariot burial was excavated in 1971 by T.C.M. Brewster

Wetwang Slack

Wetwang Slack....on my list of barrows to visit when fitter....

 

Mortimer's Maps (Yorkshire Wolds Barrows c1870s)

 Mortimer's 6 inch maps of the barrows, Hull Museum......about 1870s. Mortimer recorded the sites of 400+ barrows, arranging them into groups, shown by the cross hatched lines. It's quite a job to locate some of these on modern OS maps!

 

J.R. Mortimer's Yorkshire Wolds Barrows

I visited Duggleby Howe when I was on the Wolds Way last May, taking a detour of several miles. It would be great to do things like this again!!

Enforced Idleness gives me time to catch up on my drawings! This is the best form of therapy for me, reminding me of how I love to discover these places in the landscape. When I'm fitter, I intend to resume my Yorkshire-wide walks of discovery....although I will need volunteers to join me, no more going it alone! Here's another of my heroes, Mr Mortimer, a seed merchant who spent ages documenting all the Yorkshire Wolds burial mounds from Neolithic and Iron Ages before they were ploughed away.