Prehistoric Yorkshire Images
Bronze Age cairn on the summit of Addlebrough in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire.
This cairn is believed to mark an early Bronze Age burial site (c2000-1500 BC). Some of the stones show examples of prehistoric rock art with many cup markings.
This was the site of a trig point, but there was fear that increased footfall to the pillar would lead to lead to damage of the markings.
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Prehistoric cup markings on the stones round the Bronze Age cairn on the summit of Addlebrough in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire.
The cairn is believed to mark an early Bronze Age burial site (c2000-1500 BC). Some of the stones show many obvious cup markings and there are supposed to be three rings too, but I could only make out the cups with any certainty.
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Prehistoric cup markings on the stones round the Bronze Age cairn on the summit of Addlebrough in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire.
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Haw Bank Enclosed Cremation Cemetry on Ox Close at Carperby in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire.
This Bronze Age raised circle with a small raised inner circle can be seen beside the Oxclose Road. Such cremation cemeteries tended to replace the barrow and cairn burials of the Early Bronze Age.
Wet Groves Lead Mine can be seen in the distance.
The Iron Age hill fort, Maiden Castle on the flanks of Harkerside near Healaugh, Reeth in Swaledale, North Yorkshire. SE 021 980.
The west ditch and rampart of the Iron Age hill fort, Maiden Castle near Healaugh, Reeth in Swaledale, North Yorkshire.
Aerial view of an Iron Age / Romano British Settlement at Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire.
Photo taken from a hot-air balloon.
Aerial photo of Yarlsber Camp, a defended Iron Age enclosure, Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Photo taken from a hot-air balloon.
Iron Hill North bowl barrow near in Hardendale Shap in Cumbria.
Earthwork remains of a Bronze Age bowl barrow (burial mound / cairn). Excavation of the cairn uncovered a cist (coffin / burial chamber) with a human male burial and deer remains. A bronze halberd (combined spear and axe) was found in the area.
The barrow has been cut in half by the building of the wall.
Iron Hill South lies close by.
Apron Full Of Stones, towards the head of Kingsdale in the Yorkshire Dales (visible from the road).
Believed to be an early Bronze Age burial cairn
Victoria Cave, Langcliffe Scar, Langcliffe near Settle in the Yorkshire Dales.
Victoria Cave was discovered by chance in 1837 and is an important archaeological site. Within the lower clay deposits were found 130,000 year old bones of hippos, narrow-nosed rhino, elephants and spotted hyenas. It is believed that the carcases of the larger animals had been dragged back to the cave by hyenas that used it as their den. The temperature at that time would have been much hotter than today, but ten thousand years later the glaciers returned and over the following 110,000 years the cave gradually filled with more layers of clay as the glaciers melted. Remains found within these layers show that around 10,000BC the cave was used by hibernating brown bear, but more importantly, amongst the bones of reindeer, a 12,000 year old antler harpoon was found. This is the earliest evidence of man in the Yorkshire Dales. Above all these prehistoric layers of clay, Roman pottery, jewellery, craft tools and coins have also been found in the cave. They are thought to have belonged to Romano-British craft workers using the cave as a workshop. There is also a belief that the cave was used as a shrine.