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The Darkives lists 25 burial barrows where our community has documented paranormal phenomena. All are in the United Kingdom, and the most-recorded areas are North Yorkshire (12), Gloucestershire (5) and East Riding of Yorkshire (2).
The phenomena most often recorded at these burial barrows are high strangeness (23), several types of phenomena (1) and ghost and spirit activity (1).
United Kingdom
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High StrangenessBelas Knap Long Barrow
Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
A Cotswold communal tomb with four burial chambers and an impressive false entrance. Its surviving appearance reflects both prehistoric construction…
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Blakey Howe — Cockpit Hill
Rosedale Abbey, North Yorkshire
A prominent barrow near the Lion Inn, recorded as Blakenhow in 1200. Its excavation hollow may later have hosted cockfighting, while a boundary stone…
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High StrangenessDuggleby Howe and Surrounding Enclosure
Duggleby, North Yorkshire
A major Neolithic round barrow associated with a large interrupted-ditch enclosure. Reassessment of nineteenth-century discoveries introduced…
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High StrangenessFlockrake Noddle Round Barrow
Hackness, North Yorkshire
An earth-and-stone barrow overlooking the eastern edge of the Hackness Hills. A central hollow records partial excavation, while its surrounding…
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High StrangenessGib Hill Barrow
Monyash, Derbyshire
A layered burial monument beside Arbor Low. A later bowl barrow was built over an earlier oval mound, preserving evidence of successive phases of…
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High StrangenessLady Grace's Ride Round Barrow
Scalby, North Yorkshire
An earth-and-stone burial mound beside Lady Grace’s Ride on Row Brow. Its height varies with the slope, and its surrounding ditch survives beneath…
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High StrangenessLittle Blakey Howe
Rosedale Abbey, North Yorkshire
A small barrow south of the Lion Inn, topped by a later boundary stone. Its modest prehistoric mound survives among numerous spoil heaps from…
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Loft Howe Square Barrow
Sawdon, North Yorkshire
A rare surviving square burial mound in Wykeham Forest. Its flat-topped earthwork and surrounding ditch remain visible, although an earlier partial…
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Metlow Hill Round Barrow, Bempton
Bempton, East Riding of Yorkshire
A round barrow on a low rise near Bempton. Greenwell’s excavation revealed a child’s grave with a food vessel and a collection of flint tools within…
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High StrangenessNotgrove Long Barrow
Notgrove, Gloucestershire
A Cotswold burial mound with evidence of successive architectural phases. Excavations revealed an early dome-shaped chamber, a later gallery and side…
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High StrangenessNympsfield Long Barrow
Nympsfield, Gloucestershire
A roofless Cotswold chambered tomb whose exposed layout reveals its burial gallery. Excavations recovered human remains and pottery, including…
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Ghost › ApparitionRillaton Barrow
Liskeard, Cornwall
On Cornwall's Bodmin Moor, an ancient burial mound conceals a remarkable connection between archaeology and supernatural folklore. Legend tells of a…
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High StrangenessRobin Hood's Butts, Stoupe Brow
Ravenscar, North Yorkshire
Three round barrows arranged in a triangle above the coast. Greenwell’s investigations in the 1890s recovered cremation burials and grave goods…
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Round Barrow North of Lilla Cross
Goathland, North Yorkshire
A low burial mound thirty metres north of Lilla Cross, separated from it by the Saltersgate track. This scheduled barrow is a distinct feature from…
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High StrangenessSeamer Beacon Barrows and Baron Albert's Tower
Scalby, North Yorkshire
Three burial mounds arranged around a prominent natural hillock. A nineteenth-century folly altered the highest mound, while the lower barrows…
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High StrangenessSharp Howes
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Hidden among the fields of the Yorkshire Wolds, Sharp Howes is an ancient burial cemetery containing prehistoric mounds excavated by Victorian…
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Silpho Moor Square Barrow, South-East of Breckenhurst
Hackness, North Yorkshire
A small square burial mound on Silpho Moor, altered by forestry ploughing. Its ditch is buried and its outline has become rounded, but the record…
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High StrangenessStoney Littleton Long Barrow
Wellow, Somerset
A Somerset chambered tomb with a central passage and seven burial chambers. Investigated in 1816 and repaired in the nineteenth century, it also has…
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High StrangenessSutton Hoo Royal Burial Ground
Woodbridge, Suffolk
An Anglo-Saxon mound cemetery famous for the ship burial discovered in 1939. Later excavations exposed additional high-status graves and evidence…
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High StrangenessThe Three Tremblers Round Barrows
Sawdon, North Yorkshire
Three adjacent burial mounds in Wykeham Forest, each disturbed by earlier excavation. The largest contained a stone-lined burial compartment, and two…
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High StrangenessUley Long Barrow — Hetty Pegler's Tump
Nympsfield, Gloucestershire
A Cotswold communal tomb overlooking the Severn Valley. Its familiar name recalls a seventeenth-century landowner, while the chambers and mound…
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High StrangenessWayland's Smithy
Ashbury, Oxfordshire
A two-phase Neolithic tomb beside the Ridgeway. Its ancient burial history is distinct from the later legend of Wayland, the supernatural smith…
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High StrangenessWest Kennet Long Barrow
Avebury, Wiltshire
A Neolithic communal tomb near Avebury, with stone burial chambers beneath a long mound. Excavations revealed human remains and grave goods; its…
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Multiple Types of Phenomena › Interdimensional & UFO/UAPWilly Howe Mound
Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire
Willy Howe, a large prehistoric burial mound on the Yorkshire Wolds, has long been tied to legends of fairy doors, strange lights, and voices from…
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High StrangenessWindmill Tump — Rodmarton Long Barrow
Rodmarton, Gloucestershire
A Cotswold long barrow with side-accessed burial chambers and a false entrance. Investigations and storm damage revealed human remains and…
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