NMR Number: SE 29 NW 16

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Site of a henge and cairn at Catterick. Both were identified during rescue excavations by West Yorkshire Archaeological Service in advance of quarrying, and the cropmarks plotted by RCHME. The sites may well be identified with the "slight traces of tumuli, which were standing in the fields called Thrummy Hills, within the remembrance of people now living", referred to in 1849. The cairn proved to be circa 38 metres in diameter and appeared to have been incorporated in the bank of a much larger feature. This latter feature was initially identified as an amphitheatre, but subsequently recognised as a probable henge, with a maximum external diameter of 145 metres. The line of Dere Street runs over the west side of the henge, and only small pieces of the henge now survive, including an area beneath Catterick racecourse. Some fragments of pottery from the cairn may be of Early Bronze Age date.