Simon Howe

Menhirs by Simon Howe

Simon Howe is a site with a Bronze Age round cairn or ring cairn , a row of stones , a menhir ( English Standing Stone ) and two round hills ( English Roundbarrows ) east of the Howl Moors, south of Goathland , in North Yorkshire in England .

The curb stones of the Rundcairn with a diameter of about 10.0 m are clearly visible on the eastern side. The cairn in the middle is a modern walker's cairn. Likewise, the cairn on the edge is not historical.

The northeast-southwest oriented stone row consists of two standing and two fallen stones - the evidence for a fifth stone was provided in 1947 by a stone base.

The menhir stands near a barrow northeast of Simon Howe Cairn.

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↑ Howe is the Old Norse word for hill.
↑ Rundcairns are prehistoric graves from the Bronze Age (around 2000–700 BC). They were constructed as cairns that cover single or multiple burials.
↑ Roundbarrows are non-megalithic round mounds or graves from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age, with a focus between 2400-1500 BC. They were built as mounds of earth that covered single or multiple burials.

54.371754 -0.723596Coordinates: 54 ° 22 '18.3 " N , 0 ° 43' 24.9" W.

[1] Howe is the Old Norse word for hill.

[2] Rundcairns are prehistoric graves from the Bronze Age (around 2000–700 BC). They were constructed as cairns that cover single or multiple burials.

[3] Roundbarrows are non-megalithic round mounds or graves from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age, with a focus between 2400-1500 BC. They were built as mounds of earth that covered single or multiple burials.