
Fragments of Archaeology and
Glimpses of History in the Landscapes of the North York Moors
4. The Danby Beacon Area
4a. Danby Beacon itself at the
top of Beacon Hill

The tumulus on Danby Beacon and the old trip
point and before/after the introduction of the new gas fired beacon. OS
grid 736093


There are wide ranging
views through 360o.

The low long hump is one of the last traces
of the radar station that stood here in WWII
4b. The
medieval track that runs
east from Danby Beacon.


The tumulus burial mound of
Brown Rigg Howe dues east of Danby Beacon

Stump Cross (OS grid ref.
NZ 744094) is just off the old medieval road that ran down from Danby
Beacon to Stonegate (mill) and lies between danby Beacon and Brown Rigg
Howe.

4c. Robin Hood's Butts

There are several tumuli burial mounds just
south of the A171 near the turnoff for Danby.Its a favourite grass spot
for sheep to gather amongst the wastelands of braken!
4d. Three Howes Rigg

The three bronze age burial
mounds, of Three Howes Rigg (Black Dike Moor?), north of Danby Beacon on Easington High
Moor (Scaling Dam is beyond them out of sight). The memorial stone in the
foreground, near Lealholm Moor,
is shown and explained in detail below.

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-early bronze? age,
just north of the Three Howes Rigg. Has it been used as an estate
boundary stone?


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!
4e. The Pit Alignment
This extensive pit
allignment is found near the Long Stone and Three Howes Rigg on
Easington High moor.

Its difficult to see from
the photographs but the are multiple pairs of holes, now filled with
reeds and/or water. You can see their positions clearly using Google
Earth. Canon Atkinson referred to it as a 'British Village' but it is
more likely to be a boundary marker - unfinished?



4f. Oakley Walls

The shafts of old coal pits lie above the
road along Oakley Walls. Some are 60ft (~19m) deep and stoned lined. The
coal was of poor quality and fired the limekilns on the edge of the
limestone parts of the tabular Hills.
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