Most of the time in the Yorkshire Wolds when you find the word ‘tumulus’ or ‘tumuli’ written on an OS Map it turns out to be a ‘site of’ rather than the real thing, mostly due to ploughing out. So it was a surprise to find actual burial mounds at Garrowby Wolds strung out along the edge of the A166 in a linear(ish) arrangement which means that the A166/Garrowby Street is probably an ancient trackway. The barrows are presumably Bronze Age and all of similar size except the most North-Western barrow which is much smaller with a single tree growing on it and partially ploughed out like it had been given a last minute reprieve by the ancient monuments police. In addition to this these barrows are separated from their Eastern chums by an earthwork which looks and feels like a holloway