Duggleby Howe Round Barrow

Duggleby Howe Neolithic Round Barrow

Tuesday 14th April 2015

Visited the Church at Kirby Grindalythe to see the beautiful wall mosaic, heading home via Duggleby, we were diverted onto a back road through the village. There standing tall (about 20 feet) in a corner of a field was Duggleby Howe burial mound. It is late neolithic and dates from around 5000 years ago and is one of the largest in the country. It was excavated in 1890 by J.R. Mortimer of Driffield and contained a number of bodies and even more cremations as well as flints, bowls and arrow heads. I chose to photograph it in black and white to give it a sense of time and place.