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.
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