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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* Small prehistoric and historic items occasionally appear in the 'archaeological' landscapes and townscapes and there are many historic and ancient churches and other buildings in these towns and villages rich in history in and around the moorland, with their own extensive prehistory-archaeology stretching back over 1000 years of history and as well as the tumuli (burial mounds) megalithic standing stone alignments of the 4000+ years of very ancient prehistoric archaeology, items in the landscape well worth pausing for a visit.   *  page updated July 20th 2008  *  EMAIL Phil Brown  *  images snapshots photographs pictures views scenes views pics photos snaps webshots © Phil Brown docspics of this area of North Yorkshire, North of England