Duggleby Howe and Surrounding Enclosure

Duggleby Howe is a major Neolithic round burial mound near the source of the Gypsey Race in the Yorkshire Wolds. John Mortimer’s nineteenth-century investigations revealed a substantial sequence of burials accompanied by distinctive objects. His records became central to later attempts to reconstruct the mound’s development, but initially lacked an absolute chronology. Research published in 2009 reassessed the surviving human and animal remains, applied radiocarbon dating and surveyed the surrounding earthworks using geophysical and topographical methods. A further excavation in 2009 investigated the large interrupted-ditch enclosure around the mound, seeking material that could date its construction and use. The burial monument and surrounding boundary therefore represent related features whose sequence required separate investigation. Modern research has made the site important for understanding how a prominent funerary place developed within a wider Neolithic landscape. Period: Neolithic burial mound and surrounding enclosure Grid reference: SE 88154 66939, SE 87879 66793 Protection: Scheduled monument Source: Historic England, https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1004179 (Open Government Licence). © Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Banner photo: "Duggleby Howe" by Paul Allison, via Geograph (https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1100), licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.