Duggleby Howe Neolithic round barrow is one of the largest and rarest round barrows in the British Isles standing some 22 feet high (and probably higher than that originally) and 120 feet in diameter, difficult to convey in a photo taken on a wet , flatly lit day.
It’s also one of four of 'The Great Barrows of East Yorkshire', the others being Willy Howe (see my earlier post), South Side Mount and Wold Newton Barrow and they all seem to be in close proximity to The Gypsey Race, a mysterious intermittent chalk Winterbourne.
Unlike Willy Howe which, when excavated, appeared to contain no burials, Duggleby Howe had at least 53 deposits of cremated remains following on from the first inhumation of a crouched male body in a shaft grave suggesting a very long period of use. So it was more of a Neolithic cemetery or necropolis or a popular hotel you could never leave (I seem to be coming over all Eagles there)!