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Fragments of Archaeology and
Glimpses of History in the Landscapes of the North York Moors
4. The area north of Danby Beacon
(south of Scaling Dam) 
The three bronze age burial
mounds, of Three Howes Rigg, north of Danby Beacon
The memorial stone in the
foreground, near Lealholm Moor,
is shown in detail below
(Scaling Dam is between the
three howes and the horizon)

This stone found between
Danby Beacon and the Three Howes Rigg, is a memorial to a Hannah Colling
(in Lealholme records) (Coling on stone)
who perished in a snowstorm on Lealholm Moor on the 21st January 1848.
She died aged 29, and her body
wasn't found for three days.

The Long Stone, a menhir,
magalithic standing stone, from the prehistoric neolithic-bronze? age,
just north of the Three Howes Rigg

The Isolation of the Longstone
north of Danby Beacon (part of the ridge in the background)

The Plaque dedicated to
radar detection system that was based on Danby Beacon and the war hero,
Flight Lieutenant Peter Townsend, the man who never married Princess
Margaret. The plaque is on the left of the west-east road up to Danby
Beacon. Archaeology of the future!
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Prehistoric and historic sites appear in the
'archaeological' landscape there are many historic and ancient churches
and other buildings in these towns and villages rich in history in and
around the moorland stretching back over 1000 years as well as the tumuli (burial mounds,howes)
megalithic standing stone alignments of over 4000 years of very ancient
prehistory archaeology in North Yorkshire
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