| Summary : The buried and earthwork remains of a Bronze Age cairnfield, located on Castleton Rigg. Gallow Howe cairnfield includes a scatter of at least nine grassed over cairns up to 0.5 metres high and 7 metres in diameter, two of which are marked as tumuli on Ordnance Survey maps. The northern of the two cairns marked as tumuli is 7 metres by 5 metres rising to 0.5 metres high at its southern end. About 25 metres to its west there are a pair of low mounds 9 metres apart, both about 3 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high, and a further 20 metres SSW there is a 6 metre diameter crescent shaped cairn which faces northwards. The southern cairn marked by the Ordnance Survey is round, but smaller, 4 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high. A lower mound, 2 metres in diameter, lies 10 metres to the south west. Just north east of a boundary stone to the south of this pair of cairns there is a circular mound 5 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high. About 25 metres west of this clearance cairn, there is an elongated, irregular cairn 5 metres long, rising to 0.5 metres high. A further slight circular mound 2 metres in diameter lies between this irregular cairn and a boundary stone to the east. Gallow Howe cairnfield is a surviving remnant of the prehistoric field system which is believed to have originally covered much of Castleton Rigg. Scheduled. |
More information : (NZ 68190739 and 68120738) Tumuli (OE) (1)
The published survey (OS 25" 1928) is correct. Two turf covered,
earth and stone mounds. 'A' is elongated and measures 7.0m by 5.0m
and is 0.7m high. 'B' is near circular, and is 5.0m in diameter, and
0.6m high. Both are ditchless and appear to be undisturbed.
While considerable stone is evident in 'A', there is insufficient to
justify its classification as a cairn, and both mounds are probably
small bowl barrows. (2)
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