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Painsthorpe is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
It is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the village of Kirby Underdale,
the area is remote - the nearest settlement of any size is the small town
of Pocklington some 5 miles (8 km) to the south. It forms part of the
civil parish of Kirby Underdale and was the site of Painsthorpe Abbey,
an Anglican Benedictine monastery.
Painsthorpe Wold is Bronze Age Round Barrows.
This is one of a small dispersed group of round barrows that cluster around
the flat topped plateau of Painsthorpe Wold bounded on the west by the
steep drop of Painsthorpe Dale with other shallower valleys towards the
north, east and south.
It is a fairly typical Bronze Age barrow that has spread to cover a diameter
of 33 metres and stands a couple of metres high and upon excavation was
found to contain an adult inhumation within an oval pit and as well as
five sets of cremation remains, two of which Mortimer interpreted as having
been interred while the barrow mound was being constructed.
